Dr. Molly K. Macauley (PhD 1983), Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow at the Resources for the Future delivered the Carolyn and Edward Wenk Jr. Lecture in Technology and Public Policy on Friday, April 27, on the Homewood campus. Macauley talk, “Forever Ours: Technology, Economics and Institutions for Managing Long-Lived Environmental Problems,” began at […]
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 Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium.
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen gave the keynote speech at the Provost’s Symposium on the Social Determinants of Health. The symposium was held at the Shriver Hall Auditorium on May 8-9, 2012. The full agenda and more information can be found here. Registration was required. Register now.
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 an assistant professor in microeconometrics – Yuya Sasaki from Brown. All three are superb additions to a core of microeconomists […]
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”. Details: Friday, April 13, 6:00 pm, at the University of California Washington Center, 1608 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036
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 in Washington, D.C. and around the country. http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/Govt_Relations/index.php
The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced the appointment of Jon Faust as special adviser in the Office of Board Members, effective January 17. Link to Press Release
General Department News, Faculty News, Graduate Student News, Alumni News, Hope to see you in Chicago in the December 2011 newsletter
Professor Christopher Carroll recently began a five year term as a member of the Board of Directors of the NBER. He is the representative, on the NBER Board, of the American Statistical Association. http://www.nber.org/board.html
John Quiggin, the Hinkley Visiting Professor for 2011 published an opinion piece on the European crisis in the New York Times of November 9. Professor Quiggin placed much of the blame for the crisis on the restrictive policies of the European Central Bank, and particularly its outgoing president Jean-Claude Trichet. Quiggin argued that the ECB […]
