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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Economist questioned for terrorism on flight attended Northwestern

May 11, 2016

FBI agents questioned a Northwestern alumnus flying from Philadelphia to Syracuse, New York, last week after his seatmate reported suspicious behavior, The Associated Press reported. That suspicious...

Stocker: We must refrain from treating economics as gospel

Stocker: We must refrain from treating economics as gospel

April 20, 2016

Economics is an extremely popular major here at Northwestern. Students from a wide variety of backgrounds and with a diverse range of interests major in economics, often in conjunction with another field...

Economics Prof. Robert Gordon addresses students in his “Did Economics Win Two World Wars?” class. Gordon’s book arguing America’s years of prolific innovation have passed, “The Rise and Fall of American Growth,” was published in January.

Famed Northwestern macroeconomist Robert Gordon predicts end to life-changing innovation

February 9, 2016

The gloomy economist sits in a large office that reveals no inkling of his pessimistic predictions. Glass awards rest on his desk, model airplanes decorate the shelves and original photographs from India...

Award-winning economist Jean Tirole discusses industrial regulation and complex markets at an Undergraduate Economics Society event Tuesday. Tirole won the University’s Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics in February of 2014.

Nobel Memorial Prize winner talks regulation mistakes, complex markets

April 29, 2015

Economist Jean Tirole spoke about his Nobel Memorial Prize-winning work on industrial regulations Tuesday in Harris Hall. Markets are often not as simple as one buyer and one seller, he said, and regulators...

Lemaitre: Be wary of normative economic judgements

November 13, 2014

As I was sitting in my Introduction to International Relations class last week, my professor began lecturing about different viable economic systems, most notably the German, American/British and Japanese...

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