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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 online journal. See more at […]

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, and encourages outstanding contributions by […]

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.