DePauw is home to some of the leading scholars, artists and strategists in their fields. An impressive 99% of all tenure-track faculty hold a Ph.D. or higher, but it is their unwavering dedication to ...

More than 125 colleagues, former students, and family members recently gathered to honor Richard W. Tresch, a beloved economics professor at Boston College and a former state collegiate Professor of ...

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. Positive economics describes and explains economic phenomena in objective and measurable terms, while normative economics ...

In addition to Robinson, seven current UChicago faculty members are Nobel laureates in economics. The most recent winner, Douglas Diamond, a finance professor, shared the award in 2022 for his ...

Photo: Imago/Zuma Press This field has a long and noble history in economics. The Nobelists’ contribution is to lay out empirical data on the specific economic institutions that helped or ...

Amy Wax, the Ivy League law professor suspended for making racist, sexist and inflammatory comments, stands to lose half a million dollars from her punishment. Wax said she doesn’t regret the ...

The law of supply and demand is a fundamental concept of economics and a theory popularized by Adam Smith in 1776. The principles of supply and demand are effective in predicting market behavior.

The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research into reasons why some countries succeed and others fail. The three ...

Daron Acemoglu, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-winner of the Nobel in economics, speaks on Sept. 27. (Murad Sezer/Reuters) But he added that "democracy ...

Professor teaches Harry Potter-themed class to secure privacy against the 'dark arts' of online algorithms Dr. Tim McGrew, professor of philosophy, details how companies track people's data and ...

James A. Robinson, an economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday along with two professors from the Massachusetts Institute of ...