Robert Moffitt is Named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Robert Moffitt, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics is elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Robert will be inducted at a ceremony Oct. 6, at [...]
Lecture by Professor Joe Harrington
Professor Joe Harrington gives the Bayard Wickliffe Heath Memorial Lecture Series on U.S. Antitrust Policy at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. [Flyer]
Carolyn and Edward Wenk Jr. Lecture in Technology and Public Policy on Friday, April 27
Dr. Molly K. Macauley (PhD 1983), Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow at the Resources for the Future will deliver the Carolyn and Edward Wenk Jr. Lecture in Technology and Public Policy on Friday, [...]
A Public Lecture by Professor Eric Schliesser
Public lecture on “The Construction of an Imperial Paradigm: Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Thomas Kuhn, and the Rise and Fall of Chicago Economics 1940-1976″ by Professor Eric Schliesser [1][2], BOF Research Professor, Philosophy and Moral [...]
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen keynote speaker at the Provost’s Symposium on the Social Determinants of Health.
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen will give the keynote speech at the Provost’s Symposium on the Social Determinants of Health. The symposium will be held at the Shriver Hall Auditorium on May 8-9, 2012. The full [...]
Stellar Faculty Recruiting Year – Jorge Balat, Nick Papageorge and Yuya Sasaki joining the department in Fall 2012
Arriving in Fall 2012 are two assistant professors in applied microeconomics – Jorge Balat in industrial organization from Yale and Nick Papageorge in health and labor economics from Washington U. at St. Louis – and [...]
2012 (Spring) Sumerlin Lecture
The Spring 2012 Sumerlin Lecture will be given by Prof. Edward Glaeser of Harvard University. He will speak on “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, Happier”. [Flyer] [...]
Professor Hülya Eraslan serving as Associate Editor for the International Economic Review
Professor Hülya Eraslan recently began serving as an Associate Editor for the International Economic Review [Link].
Professor Robert Moffitt appointed Chair of the AEA Committee on Government Relations
Professor Robert Moffitt has been appointed by the President of the American Economic Association, Christopher Sims, to be Chair of the AEA Committee on Government Relations. The Committee represents the interests of the economics profession [...]
Professor Hülya Eraslan co-organized Economic Design Winter Workshop
Professor Hülya Eraslan co-organized the first Society for Economic Design and Johns Hopkins University Winter Workshop in Economic Design. Link.