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...

Recent news has caused an array of feelings that can be roughly described as worrying, traumatic and disheartening all at the same time: ISIS is increasing pressure in Kobani, Syria. Protests are escalating...

Friends and economists from around the world gathered Friday morning to remember Prof. Dale Mortensen as a pioneer in labor economics and a proud Northwestern faculty member.  Mortensen, a Nobel laureate...

Science sucks. Specifically, a professional career in science is shockingly terrible. Of course, I would never disparage the scientific method, which is inarguably humanity’s greatest invention. But...

Friends of Dale Mortensen, a Northwestern professor and Nobel laureate, remembered him Thursday as a revolutionary economist and a dedicated family man. When Mortensen won the Nobel Prize in economics in...