In that elite group, we’re the new children. We started in 1964 by building one of the best possible analysis departments in econometrics (two Nobel prize winners) and financial theory. Over the previous couple of many years we’ve broadened. Our analysis and teaching now span behavioral economics, financial development, environmental economics, health economics, worldwide economics, labor, legislation and economics, macroeconomics, public economics, and more.

Pentti J. K. Kouri Career Development Associate Professor of Economics, Alex Wolitzky, has been awarded a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship. The Sloan Research Fellowships search to stimulate elementary research by early-career scientists and scholars of excellent promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly in recognition of distinguished performance and a singular potential to make substantial contributions to their subject.

The influence of Ricardo’s treatise was felt nearly as soon as it was published, and for over half a century the Ricardian system dominated financial considering in … Read more