After taking Advanced Placement (AP) environmental science in high school — and loving it — Emma Aucker, now a senior environmental and resource economics (ENRE) major at the University of Delaware, ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of Dispatches from Abroad, a series highlighting UChicago community members who are researching, studying and working around the world. Every summer, the hallways of ...

Nine former Texas A&M agricultural economics students honored in 2025 for leadership, service and lasting impact.

Jacob Carson ’25 (left) and Saurabh C. Srivastava ’25 (right) M.S. at the Pennsylvania Economic Association’s Conference with faculty mentor Dr. Armando Rodriguez (center) Two University of New Haven ...

As college students have become more diverse over the past few decades, a growing focus in education policy has centered on the university’s role in influencing their economic mobility. New research ...

A Northwestern University professor has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his historical studies on sustained economic growth through technological progress. Joel Mokyr, who has ...

In 1776, Adam Smith famously wrote: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” Economists ...

Markets work best when many companies vie for customers’ favour. They work badly when a few firms dominate, carving up sales between them. Economists therefore need a measure of whether markets are ...