Every decision we make is economics, because economics evaluates tradeoffs. Whether we’re buying a home or defining a migration corridor, economics offers tools to make choices that create value. Where do you hope to create value? As an economist in ...

A $50 million grant commitment to the University of Chicago from CRI Foundation, Inc. will establish the University as the administrative home of the Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics, a fund established by a grant from CRI to support ...

Kari Polanyi Levitt is Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal, and was the George Beckford Professor of Political Economy at the University of the West Indies, Mona from 1995 to 1997. She has been Visiting Professor at the Institute ...

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, along with wife Esther Duflo, is set to launch a new development economics center at the University of Zurich in July