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HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM THE DISMAL SCIENCE DEPT!
31 October 2019Stop by the 3rd floor suite of Willis Hall for candy and cookies. Check out the dept scarecrow too!
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2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
15 October 2019The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 was awarded jointly to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
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Kanazawa awarded visiting scholar position
23 September 2019Did you know…
Professor Mark Kanazawa, on leave fall term 2019, has been awarded a visiting scholar position at the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University – Bloomington for three weeks this fall term. The Ostrom Workshop focuses on the study of governance in a variety of research areas, including governance of natural resources. While there, Mark will be studying tensions between state and local governance of groundwater resources in California, and giving a talk on his project at their research series.
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Welcome to Visiting Assistant Professor Lhakpa Sherpa!
10 September 2019This fall term the Economics Department welcomes Lhakpa Sherpa as Visiting Assistant Professor in Economics. He will teach courses in Principles of Macroeconomics and International Finance. His research interests include…
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Follow the Economics and European Studies in Cambridge Program
6 November 2018Check out the Instagram feed of the Summer 2018 Economics and European Studies Program in Cambridge as the group travels to Brussels, Lille, London, Manchester, and of course, Cambridge!
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Carleton Students Sweep MEA Paper Contest!
2 October 2018Three Econ Seniors swept the MEA undergraduate paper contest this year, read on to see who won top honors for Senior Thesis, Term Paper, and Economic Communication.
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Faress Bhuiyan, Assistant Professor of Economics, published a book chapter in Alleviating World Suffering: The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life, (2017) edited by Ron Anderson. The paper titled, “Alleviating Mental Suffering in Rural Bangladesh: Evidence from a Survey of Three Villages,” investigates the sources of two types of self-reported mental suffering in rural Bangladesh: feeling worried and feeling depressed.
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Il Shan Ng ’17 MEA Undergraduate Paper Contest Winner!
25 September 2017The Minnesota Economic Association (MEA) announced winners of the 2017 annual Undergraduate Paper Contest. Congrats to Il Shan Ng ’17, who was awarded First Place in the Senior Thesis division with his Comps paper “The Relationship Between Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption and Long-Run Growth: A Vector Autoregressive Approach.” His Carleton advisor was Stephie Fried. Winning paper contest entries were recognized at an awards ceremony at the 2017 MEA Conference.
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Welcome to our 2017–18 Faculty
19 September 2017Join us in welcoming two new faculty members, Assistant Professors Yaniv Ben-Ami and Ethan Struby, to the Economics Department!
If you have not yet had a chance to meet Yaniv and Ethan, stop by our department on the 3rd floor of Willis Hall.
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What do basketball and square dancing have in common? For Pete Bakker-Arkema ’17, both helped define his Carleton experience.
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Quantifying Happiness
28 February 2017Carleton economics professor Faress Bhuiyan has joined the ranks of the many psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists who have sought to answer the question What makes us happy?
