Assistant Professor Anders Fremstad named as a 2018-2019 SoGES Resident Faculty Fellow!

The School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) at Colorado State University has announced the selection of four Global Challenges Research Teams and six Resident Faculty Fellows from a competitive field of proposals. The awards are intended to encourage interdisciplinary understanding of complex global environmental issues, foster collaborative cross-campus partnerships, and support sustainability research at CSU. Congratulations to […]

Professor Ed Barbier receives CSU’s 2018 Scholarship Impact Award

The Economics Department’s own Professor Edward Barbier has received CSU’s 2018 Scholarship Impact Award. This award is one of CSU’s highest for accomplishment in research and recognizes those who have had significant national and international impacts. To our knowledge, this is a first in the history of the award for CLA and for Economics! “I am honored […]

Study on cause of Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Flint led by Drs. Zahran and Mushinski

Associate Professor Sammy Zahran is the lead author of an article about the study being published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).  Professor David Mushinski is a co-author. Based on a detailed statistical analysis of multiple datasets by Zahran and his co-authors, the Flint Area Community Health and Environment Partnership (FACHEP) […]

Economist Samuel Bowles visiting CSU February 1

The Department of Economics is pleased to host Dr. Samuel Bowles as our seminar speaker on Thursday, 2/1/18. Samuel Bowles, (PhD, Economics, Harvard University) heads the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute. Bowles’ research includes theoretical and empirical studies of political hierarchy and wealth inequality and their evolution over the very long run. […]

REDI offers webinar on rural economic development

Professors Stephan Weiler, Dawn Thilmany McFadden and Becca Jablonski hosted a webinar on rural economic development Jan 8th with The Colorado Trust, a non-profit dedicated to achieving health equity in Colorado. The webinar focused on economic development approaches and solutions working in diverse rural areas, with specific examples of where CSU has partnered with communities. See […]

16th World Congress of the Association for Social Economics conference, plus a 2-day social economics summer school, to be held at CSU this June!

The 16th World Congress of the Association for Social Economics conference, “Putting the Social Back into Economics”, is being held right here at CSU June 11-13, 2018! Immediately preceding the conference there will also be a two-day summer school in social economics on June 9-10, 2018. Summer school participants will be provided the opportunity to […]

Study: CSU economic powerhouse for state

CSU commissioned economics professors Harvey Cutler and Martin Shields as well as agricultural and resources economist Rebecca Hill for a study to better understand the university’s economic footprint on the state. Results of that study, titled “The Economic and Fiscal Impact Study: Colorado State University” were posted in today’s Denver Post. Read the full Denver […]

Development Economics in Practice: PhD Student raises Money for Gender-Specific Restrooms in Nepal, Documents Increases in School Attendance, and Sets Paths for Continued Research

Dr. Anita Alves Pena, Chair of Economics and Dr. Alex Bernasek, Senior Associate Dean, traveled to Seattle recently with their PhD student Niroj Bhattarai to meet with members of an INGO “Splash” headquartered there to discuss a possible collaboration based upon Niroj’s dissertation research.  Niroj studied factors affecting school attendance in Nepal paying particular attention […]