October 2017 – Wake Forest Economics Department

Can Synthetic Rhino Horns Stop the Scourge of Poaching? Listen to Dr. Fred Chen on The Academic Minute

October 24, 2017

Professor Chen’s interest in conservation led him to analyze how the creation of synthetic rhino horns can impact rhino poaching. You can find the article and listen to him here, on academicminute.org. You can read more about this topic and Dr. Chen’s research here, on insidescience.org.

Public Talk by Dr.Stephen Holland “Are Electric Cars Good for the Environment?”

October 20, 2017

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Thursday 26th October at 4 p.m. in Kirby B02 Professor Stephen Holland is from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Bryan School of Business and Economics.

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2017

October 9, 2017

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017 to Richard H. Thaler University of Chicago, IL, USA “for his contributions to behavioural economics” For full press release, see here