The Slavery Reparations Calculations - The Numbers Guy - WSJ

Scholars dispute the best way to calculate reparations. “One must first ask how much the damaged parties would have accepted (or been awarded by a court) at the time of the injury,” Franklin M. Fisher, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote in an email. “Then one brings that to the current time using the safest interest rate.” He added, “However you do it, the result, I think, is bound to be mind-bogglingly large.”