While an undergraduate at Yale, economist Joseph Altonji took an introductory course in macroeconomics taught by James Tobin, Sterling Professor of Economics.
Tobin, recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Economics, led one of the course’s discussion...
Since emerging a decade ago, Bitcoin and other digitally based cryptocurrencies have captured the imaginations of tech wizards, Wall Street bankers, and investors of all stripes.
Proponents argue that cryptocurrencies, which are decentralized and function...
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 of Boston University.
Kortum, now the James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics at Yale, had...
David C. Engerman and Ebonya Washington were appointed to endowed professorships.
Engerman, named to the Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professorship, is a scholar of 20th-century international history. Read Engerman’s announcement.
Washington,...
