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AYEW Season 6: Call for Papers
Call for Papers – Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development
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.