My dissertation develops novel economic theory and empirical tools based on foundational insights to understand persistent inequality, epistemic injustice, and policy design under uncertainty. I introduce dynamic models of labor market discrimination, educational segregation, and oligopolistic firm behavior that incorporate Bayesian learning, Knightian uncertainty, and endogenous belief formation.
Using both formal proofs and causal inference methods, I show how women, disabled, Black, Latino, and LGBTQ+ demographic subgroups experience systemically embedded demand side labor market disparities even at high levels of achievement, and how equity considerate policies can reverse these dynamics and redress biophysical harms. This work advances public economics, economic theories of unequal distribution and exchange, and the ethical foundations of policy design, offering rigorous frameworks for building just and cooperative economies.
Alexander-Williams-Von Neumann Economies and Persistent Epistemic Wage Exchange and Bargaining Double Gaps with Bayesian Workers (Job Market Paper)
Lewis-Swinton-Williams Realism: Knightian Uncertainty, Hamptonian Worker Solidarity, and the Dynamics of Bayesian Oligopoly Economies (Awarded 2025 Rhonda Williams Prize by IAFFE)
Ethical Geometry and a Celestial Mechanics Spatial Model of the Ally Leader in Local Economies (Public Allies research project)
Delawares Desegregation, School Choice, and Basic Functioning Improving Dynamic Complementarity Under Rivalrous Non-Ergodic Disequilibrium (third PhD thesis paper)