Dana Professor of Economics Steven Horwitz was a guest on Air America/ XM Radio's "Young Turks" show on January 12, discussing the economic crisis and President-elect Obama's proposals for rectifying it.

 

Dipesh Mainali graduated with honors in economics in December. The title of his thesis is CHINA ENERGY: An Economic Study of the Chinese Energy Policy. Dipesh is currently employed with EMC in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and will return to campus in May to receive his diploma at graduation ceremonies.

Dr. Alison Del Rossi was inducted into the University of Delaware Athletics Hall of Fame. "Alison Farrance (Del Rossi) epitomized the term “Student-Athlete” during her career as a standout track and field performer at Delaware during the mid-1980’s." For more...including a picture of her doing the triple jump....

Tara Akstull, Carson Duggan, Tegh Kapur, Katie Palmer, Rob Tole and Yilun Wang represented St. Lawrence in this year's College Fed Challenge at the University of Rochester. The College Fed Challenge is intended to help students become more knowledgeable about the Fed and the decision-making process of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy-setting group. For more information....

Dr. Steven Howitz was interviewed by John Stossel of ABC's 20/20 about the public vs. private response to Hurricane Katrina. Click here to see the video.

(October 22) Dr. Steven Horwitz has an opinion piece about the current financial crisis published in the Christian Science Monitor titled, "Government regulation, not free-market greed, caused this crisis: When government distorts incentives, the invisible hand can become a fist."

The Department of Economics Visiting Speaker Series in Political Economy welcomes Dr. Peter J. Boettke of the Department of Economics at George Mason University.  Dr. Boettke will be speaking Tuesday October 21st at 8pm in Hepburn Auditorium.  His topic is "Adam Smith, the 20th Century Economy and 21st Century Economics." 

The Student Investment Club
and the Economics Department present:

"A Faculty Roundtable on the
Current Financial Crisis"

John Sherman P'11 has volunteered his time to discuss the collapse of Lehman Brothers and matters pertaining to the current financial crisis on Friday 3 October at 9:40am in Hepburn 218.

(October 1) Four seniors were elected to the honor society Phi Beta Kappa during Family Weekend. Two of the four were economics majors Dipesh Mainali and Marcella Hall. Congratulations to Dipesh and Marcella.