L&S News  Tag: Economics

Associate Professor of Economics Karam Kang zooms in on what works and what doesn’t in municipal governance.

The Department of Economics briefly had a future Nobel Prize winner on its faculty.

Economics alum Dana M. Peterson MS’02 receives Wisconsin Alumni Association Luminary Award. The Luminary Award, in its inaugural year, recognizes alumni who serve as aspirational examples for others through their accomplishments in the areas of leadership, discovery, progress, and service.

African American Studies and Economics alum Alexander Gee ’85 receives Wisconsin Alumni Association Luminary Award. The Luminary Award, in its inaugural year, recognizes alumni who serve as aspirational examples for others through their accomplishments in the areas of leadership, discovery, progress, and service.

Professor of Economics Menzie Chinn studies that slipperiest of subjects: Inflation.

UW–Madison employs over 2,100 teaching assistants (TAs) across its 200-plus undergraduate major and certificate programs. Whether teaching in lecture halls, classrooms, and labs on campus or leading learning opportunities in the wider community, their work is vital to fulfilling the university’s educational mission and the Wisconsin Idea.

As Wisconsin legislators move to shift authority for spending federal funds to the Legislature, a pair of professors question assumptioins about what's driving inflation during the pandemic.

Ananth Seshadri explores the factors that determine social and economic mobility.

Professor of Economics says U.S. Senate Republicans' vote to block the raising of the U.S. debt ceiling could put the national and world economy at risk.