Economist Edmund Phelps published an op-ed in Project Syndicate on "The American Dream", examining historic indicators of domestic economic productivity as compared to similar industrialized nations.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs was a speaker at the World Sustainable Development Summit in Delhi, where he spoke out against air pollution in the host city.
The winners of the Columbia Economics Competition for 2018 were announced recently. Kirk Wu (CC’21), Derek Zhang (CC’21), and Makena Binker-Cosen (CC’21) were awarded for presenting the best economic analyses of income distribution in the United States. The winning team’s paper will be published as part of the Columbia Economic Review’s
Economist Andrea Prat defines the power of a media organization as its ability to induce voters to make electoral decisions they would not make if reporting were unbiased.
Marina Halac, the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business and Economics at Columbia Business School, was recently awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Conferred every other year by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, the Elaine Bennett Research Prize recognizes, supports,
Economist Jeffrey Sachs published an op-ed on CNN criticizing Donald Trump’s announcement that he intended to impose tariff’s of 10% on aluminum and 25% on steel.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz sounded a warning on President Donald Trump’s resistance to appointing new judges at the World Trade Organization. Previous trade skirmishes “were always done in the framework of the WTO, within international rule of law,” Stiglitz, a former World Bank chief economist, told CNBC on Saturday at the China Development Forum in Beijing. The WTO has
Joseph Stiglitz, professor of economics at Columbia University, discusses escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and China. He spoke with Bloomberg’s Tom Mackenzie in Beijing. Watch here: <iframe src=”https://www.bloomberg.com/multimedia/api/embed/iframe?id=e03459c3-3daf-4e40-876a-eb1ef5834d0d” allowscriptaccess=”always” frameborder=”0″></iframe>
Economics doctoral student Andrew Olenski, in collaboration with Harvard Medical School researcher Anupan Jena, published a study in The New England Journal of Medicine challenging the notion that experienced firearm users are less likely to injure themselves. The study was covered by Scientific American.
Economist Edmund Phelps published an op-ed comparing a recent Chinese economic policy which supports the entrance of new firms into industry and has revived productivity growth. Full op-ed: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-innovation-competition-policies-by-edmund-s–phelps-2018-03
