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Yale’s William Nordhaus wins 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

10/09/2018
William Nordhaus ’63 B.A., ’72 M.A., Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and the world’s leading economist on climate change, has been awarded the 2018...
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‘Path-breaking work’ adapted 19th-century trade theory to modern day

09/16/2018
By Mike Cummings Fresh out of graduate school, economist Samuel Kortum ’92 Ph.D. began collaborating with Jonathan Eaton ’73 M.A., ’76 Ph.D. while both were on the faculty...
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Prof. Martin Shubik, Influential Game Theory Scholar, Dies at Age 92

08/23/2018
Martin Shubik, the Seymour H. Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics, died on Wednesday, August 22, 2018.  A member of the Yale faculty since 1963, a...
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2015-17 Tjalling C. Koopmans Econometric Theory Prize

06/19/2018
The 2015-17 Tjalling C. Koopmans Econometric Theory Prize has been awarded to Javier Hidalgo (London School of Economics) and Myung Hwan Seo (Seoul National University) for...
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