Nobel Prize winner and economics scholar George Akerlof will join the faculty of the McCourt School of Public Policy in November, the university announced Sept. 23.
Akerlof, who currently serves...
In June, the Environmental Protection Agency publicized its proposed regulation, the Clean Power Plan, which would cut carbon pollution from existing power plants.
Now, the clock is ticking; the public...
Over the past year, the humanities have come under close scrutiny in our public discourse.
Last summer, Harvard released a report that showed a decline in enrollment in humanities majors. In January,...
Dennis P. Lockhart, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, gave the annual Tanous Family Endowed Lecture on Thursday in Lohrfink Auditorium, assessing the current...
FINALS. You are desperately searching for any source of caffeine like a dying man in a desert searching for a drop of water, and you're utterly convinced it is the key to all of your success in school...
Robert Costanza, a leading ecological economist, spoke to students about the intersection of ecological and economic policy Wednesday.
Costanza, a professor of public policy at the Crawford School...
Do you like numbers and money? Are you currently scouting internships with Goldman Sachs and McKinsey? Did you spend the last week stressing out about demand curves, trade policies or externalities? If...
This past May, the U.S. Senate staged yet another showdown on the issue of how to pay for student loans. At issue was the question of how to pay for the subsidized interest rates on federally backed loans,...
Students packed Gaston Hall Friday afternoon for a chance to see former President Bill Clinton (SFS '68) and a collection of his closest advisors discuss the economic legacy of his administration...
Students in introductory economics courses tend to have two complaints: that the material is too abstract and that the "real world" examples used in class to elucidate economic theories don't really help...
The story of the Carroll Round begins with three Georgetown students who felt that undergraduate students interested in economics lacked opportunities to engage with each other in a serious research...
F. William McElroy, professor emeritus in the economics department, died Oct. 13 at age 71 following a battle with lung cancer that fatally weakened his immune system.
"He was a wonderful man with a...
