Economics Department News

The Economics department faculty and staff wish students, faculty, staff, alumni and their families a safe and healthy 2020 holiday season. We look forward to seeing you again on January…

by Student Department Advisor Waleed Iftikhar

Meet the 2020-21 leadership team for WE+ (Women and Non-Binary Identifying Persons in Economics). WE+ will meet virtually Wednesdays, 8-9pm CST. Contact Rayna, Nia or Leah for additional details about…

Interview with Prathi by Student Department Advisor Sarah Hussain This year, Carleton awarded tenure to the Economic Professor Prathi Seneviratne. The nerve wracking process took over a year and half…

Seniors Adam Bigelow and Siang Wongrattanapiboon received this year’s Ada Harrison Prize in Economics and Senior Sharan Ganjam Seshachallam received the Robert Will Economics Prize! The Ada Harrison prize recognizes the outstanding academic achievements of graduating economics majors for coursework and independent study in the field of economics at Carleton. The Robert Will Prize is awarded to a senior economics major who demonstrate excellent academic achievement and breadth of intellectual interests in the best tradition of the liberal arts education.

Junior Rayna Phelps was selected to receive the Winfield A. Foreman Jr. ’37 Endowed Scholarship for Academic Excellence in Economics. The Foreman scholarship is awarded to an economics major who demonstrates great academic promise and encourages students to pursue community-inspired business and service as modeled by Foreman.

The 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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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.

This 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…

Check 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!

Three 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.