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Past PER Weekly Visitors
PER Weekly Visitors are distinguished scholars whose temporary residency in the department facilitates meetings and conversations between the scholars and faculty or Ph.D. students interested in their research. Please click here to see a list of current & recent...
AYEW Season 6: Call for Papers
We are excited to announce that the Applied Young Economist Webinar (AYEW), the highly successful virtual platform designed for early-career researchers in Economics, is now seeking high-quality empirical research papers for presentation starting in March 2023. The...
Call for Papers – Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development
Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development is a Columbia University-published online academic journal dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on sustainable development. As an intellectually rigorous forum, Consilience connects students,...
The Shrinking Middle Class: How We Can Fix It
Health care must be a priority, says Sachs. We could emulate Canada or Australia by adopting a single-payer system. Sachs also recommends empowering workers to organize, providing better school-to-work transition programs (e.g., Germany’s apprenticeship model), and overhauling the economics of higher education so they don’t constrain the choices of future workers. … Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University.
Joseph Stiglitz: ‘America Should Be A Warning to Other Countries’
Joseph Stiglitz is coming to Australia next week. The renowned economist and Columbia University professor has been awarded the 2018 Sydney peace prize for leading one of the defining public policy discussions of our age – the crisis caused by economic inequality. Stiglitz is credited with pioneering the concept of the “1 per cent”, the idea that the upper 1% of Americans have accumulated so much political power and wealth in recent decades…
Department Welcomes John Asker, Evan D. Sadler and Tamrat W. Gashaw
John Asker, Evan D. Sadler and Tamrat W. Gashaw will join the Department of Economics this fall. John has been appointed Professor of Economics, Evan is Assistant Professor, and Tamrat, Lecturer in Discipline.
Kelvin John Lancaster (1924–1999)
Kelvin John Lancaster, an economic theorist who was the John Bates Clark Professor of Economics at Columbia University, died of cancer on July 23 at his home in New York. He was 74. Kelvin Lancaster was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia and remained attached to...
I have a three year B.A. Am I eligible for admissions to the M.A., or do I need an additional year?
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences accepts applications from students earning three- year bachelor’s degrees in Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, and any country which is a participant in the Bologna Process as...
Open Source Macro Lab for Undergraduates
University of Chicago I am contacting you from the University of Chicago to share that we are now accepting applications for our 2018 Open Source Macroeconomics Laboratory, a seven-week summer boot camp to build advanced computational skills in economic research. The...
