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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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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