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Department Diversity Efforts Receive National Recognition
9 January 2023The Department of Economics is proud to announce that it has received the American Economic Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diversity and Inclusion for the year 2022. In its…
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“Double take: Abolition and the size of transferred property rights” by Professor Jenny Bourne
16 December 2022Professor of Economics Jenny Bourne recently published an article, “Double take: Abolition and the size of transferred property rights” in the Social Science Quarterly. Summary: Abolition is sometimes portrayed as…
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The MEA awards two Carleton Economics students top honors for their Comps research papers!
29 November 20222022 Carleton Economics graduates Rebecca Chen and Leah Johnson were recently awarded top honors in the “Senior Thesis” category of the Minnesota Economic Association’s undergraduate paper competition! Chen’s research paper,…
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Economics Professor Prathi Seneviratne wrote a memo titled Are Women Reaching Parity with Men in STEM? for EconoFact. It documents how the nearly non-existent gender gap in STEM masks enormous…
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3 Econ Seniors presented their Comps research at the Midwest Economic Association Conference in March!
30 March 2022Economics Seniors Leah Johnson, Rebecca Chen and Maya Jensen were selected to present their Comps research in the Undergraduate Research Paper Competition at the Midwest Economic Association conference in March…
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Interview with Professor Yingtong Xie
20 January 2022Assistant Professor of Economics Yingtong Xie is one of two newly hired Assistant Professors of Economics this year! She will teach Principles of Macroeconomics, Theory of Investment Finance and Corporation Organization and Finance this academic year.
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Interview with Professor Victor Leão Borges de Almeida
5 January 2022Assistant Professor of Economics Victor Leão Borges de Almeida is one of two newly hired Assistant Professors of Economics this year! He will teach Principles of Macroeconomics, Economy of Latin America, and History and Theory of Financial Crises this academic year.
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Interview with Visiting Professor Denise Hare
21 October 2021By Student Department Advisor Delina Haileab Professor Denise Hare is the SIT Investment Visiting Professor of Asian Policy in the Economics Department at Carleton College for fall term 2021. Denise…
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Economics Professor Faress Bhuiyan and students establish non-profit Nourish Bangladesh
5 April 2021After Cyclone Amphan ravaged Bangladesh in May, killing 26 people and causing millions to evacuate, Carleton economics professor Muhammad Faress Bhuiyan felt compelled to send the people of his homeland…
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STEM Recognition for Economics Major
29 March 2021This change has been made in order to more accurately reflect the mathematical nature of the field of economics, which goes to the heart of the economic approach and is reflected in courses across the department at all levels.
