(June 13, 2008) On June 9, 2008, Barak Obama’s presidential campaign announced Jason Furman, who received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2003, as economic policy director.
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(June 9, 2008) Michael Sperling (affiliated with both the Economics and Government Departments) was announced as the winner of the 2008 John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize.
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(June 9, 2008) Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, a 1975 Harvard Economics Department graduate, was chosen by a student panel to speak at the Class Day ceremony for departing seniors.
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(May 16, 2008) Seventy-four students received the distinguished Hoopes Prize for outstanding academic research work. Among them were ten students from the Economics Department…
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(May 9, 2008) Prof. David Laibson of the Harvard University Economics Department is among six faculty named as Harvard College Professors this spring…
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(May 2, 2008) Professor Roland Fryer of the Economics Department at Harvard University has received a NSF Career Award entitled “New Methods for Understanding Race, Inequality and Spatial Separation”...
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(April 30, 2008) Professors Susan Athey and Jeremy Stein of the Economics Department were elected as 2008 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences…
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(April 18, 2008) A Panel Discussion hosted by the Harvard Department of Economics on Tuesday, April 29th from 4-5pm in the Science Center C featuring...
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(February 13, 2008) Please join us for the premiere event of the new Economics Faculty Book series featuring The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community by Prof. Stephen Marglin on Monday, February 25th.
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(January 15, 2008) Raj Chetty, who did his undergraduate and PhD(‘03) work at Harvard, won The American magazine’s 2008 Young Economist Award, a research grant of $100,000…
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(November 29, 2007) Under the direction of Prof. Benjamin Friedman, the Harvard University College Fed Challenge team won first place in the 2007 nation championship…
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(November 14, 2007) We are pleased to announce that Gregory Lewis (IO - Michigan) joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor.
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(September 26, 2007) Harvard PhDs Eric S. Maskin ('76) and Roger B. Myerson ('76) will share this year's Nobel Prize in economics with Leonid Hurwicz for their work on how people's knowledge and self-interest affect their behavior in the market or in social situations such as voting and labor negotiations.
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(September 26, 2007) We are pleased to announce that Nathan Nunn (International, Macro-Toronto) joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor.
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(September 25, 2007) Martin Feldstein, the George F. Baker Professor in the Economics Department awarded one of four Bradley Foundation prizes...
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(September 24, 2007) Professor Susan Athey of the Economics Department is the 2007 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal...
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