Robert B. Zoellick, the President of the World Bank, will speak at Yale on Wednesday, February 9. Free and open to the public, the talk will take place at Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, at 4:15 p.m.The format of the talk, which is hosted by...
In their forthcoming book, “More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty,” Yale economist Dean Karlan and his co-author Jacob Appel take the reader on a tour of the developing world, where development and behavioral...
Microcredit, which involves giving small loans to very small businesses in an effort to promote entrepreneurship, has been widely touted as a way to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth. A multitude of both non- and for-profit institutions are...
From the creation of a new center to promote freedom of speech to a panel of Yale economists offering advice on how to boost the nation’s economy, from student inventors to a look at the medical market for eggs and sperm, here are 10 stories that made...
Union organizer and political and civil rights activist David Montgomery, the Farnam Professor Emeritus of History at Yale, died suddenly on Dec. 2. He was 84 years old.David MontgomeryMontgomery was one of the founders of the “New Labor History” in the...