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January News Round Up

January 24, 2023
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The Why By Lauren Magarino | Scripps News Economics professor Robert Whaples is interviewed on “The Why” to discuss the penny and why it should be eliminated. “The point of coins, the point of money is to facilitate commerce. We need something that’ll make transactions with each other easier, and the penny no longer fills that role…

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December News Round Up

January 20, 2023
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Wake Forest senior and economics major Tal Feldman has been named to the 2023-24 class of Schwarzman Scholars. Scholars selected from around the world will complete a one-year, fully-funded Master’s degree program in Global Affairs at Schwarzman College on the campus of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The program aspires to build a global network…

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November News Round Up

November 7, 2022
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Promoting sustainable U.S. economic growth and mitigating climate change By Michael Madowitz, Shaun Harrison | Equitable Growth The estimated hundreds of thousands of green jobs created by both the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act are crucial for creating more equitable economic growth. In a recent paper, E. Mark Curtis of Wake Forest and Ioana…

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Professor Emeritus Michael Lawlor passes away

September 26, 2022
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We are sad to announce that Professor Emeritus of Economics Michael Lawlor passed away on Sept. 21 following a long battle with multiple system atrophy (MSA), a rare neurodegenerative disease. Read more here.

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September News Round Up

September 2, 2022
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Professor Mark Curtis contributed to an article for Business Insider by Madison Hoff “These maps show which parts of the US are already having a green energy jobs boom” “Economist Mark Curtis told Insider that one main result based on the job posting data he and his co-author used in their research is: “that the…

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Economics Lecture Sept. 12th Dr. Gary A. Hoover “Plagiarism in Social Sciences”

September 1, 2022
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Monday Sept. 12th 3:30 p.m. Kirby B02 Gary Hoover is President of the Southern Economic Association, founding editor of the Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, and Executive Director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. His research focuses on the intersection of economics, race, and public policy with interests in policy analysis of income…

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Mandatory Meeting for ECN/MEC Majors Aug 31, 5 pm

August 31, 2022
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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31, 2022, 5 P.M. IN BROYHILL AUDITORIUM, FARRELL HALL The Office of Personal and Career Development and the Department of Economics will give presentations. Bring your laptops and learn about Handshake for job and internship postings, events and employer information. Understand the value of an ECN/MEC Degree. Get information on Career Services. Learn…

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August News Round Up

August 17, 2022
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Professor Koleman Strumpf, our Burchfield Presidential Chair of Political Economy, and statistics Professor Harry Crane from Rutgers University wrote a piece for the National Review. “The Cloudy Future of Political Futures” With the government’s decision to shut down PredictIt, Americans will lose a useful and accurate information source. Prediction markets provide forecasts of winners of…

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July News Round Up

July 5, 2022
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Research by Professor Mark Curtis contributed to an article by Michelle Holder and Shaun Harrison from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth “Why the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is good economics”. The research by Professor Curtis and Ioana Marinescu of the University of Pennsylvania titled “Green Energy Jobs in the US: What Are They,…

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Congratulations to all our 2022 graduates and to our 2022 Award Winners!

May 14, 2022
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We presented awards this year to the following students: The David and Lelia Farr Prize in Economics was awarded to Gina A. Beyer The David and Lelia Farr Prize in Mathematical Economics was awarded to Haosen He The Michael Lawlor Macroeconomics Prize was awarded to Robert Farnham V The Claire and Dan Hammond Economics Award…

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Wake Forest Economics Department

225 Kirby Hall (Calloway Center)

Wake Forest University

Box 7505

Winston-Salem, NC 27109 USA

336 758 5334

 

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Joanna Hamilton

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Amanda Griffith

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