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Immigrants on a steerage deck as they approch the Statue of Liberty in the late 19th century
11/02/2018
By Mike Cummings Yale and Columbia economists are building a massive dataset to better understand the role immigrants played in transforming the United States from its rural...
William Nordhaus speaking
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...
cargo ship
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...
Martin Shubik portrait
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...