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) […]
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. […]
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 […]
Recently the Coloradoan reached out to our own Professor Stephan Weiler for his expert input on how the proposed entry fee increase could effect Rocky Mountain National Park. Surprisingly, the impact would not all be good. Read the full story here.
Our newest issue of the Liberal Arts Magazine is here! Check out our Winter 2017 issue: Meaningful Work, Meaningful Life. The issue features stories of alumni, faculty, and students making a difference in their local communities, at the national level, and across the world. Read now
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This weekend will bring graduate students from the Department of Economics at University of Utah and University of Missouri-Kansas City, together with graduate students here at Colorado State University for the Western States Graduate Student Workshop. The Department of Economics at CSU has been organizing the Western Graduate Students workshop in partnership with the Economics […]
There has been lots of talk lately about Amazon building a new headquarters in Denver. Our very own Professor Martin Shields joins the conversation in this article posted on the Colorado Public Radio News site today. Read the full article here.
