Duke economics professor Emma Rasiel offered her perspective on the current events in the financial world and answered related questions in a live, interactive “Office Hours” webcast on Friday, Nov. 20, on Duke’s Ustream channel.
You can’t tune into the current health care debate or the ongoing story of the financial crisis without hearing the word “socialism.” The politically-charged term is being thrown around a lot lately, but what does it mean? It seems that scholars use it one way, policy wonks another and angry taxpayers have their own ideas. Host Frank
Durham, NC -- As an ordinary guy making a living, Andrew Patton is as dismayed as the next person about the downturn in the financial markets. But as an economist whose research investigates the behavior of stock markets, he sees the past year’s drop in the Dow Jones and NASDAQ as a source of valuable information.
Durham, NC -- As a brand new Stanford Ph.D. with his thesis on microeconomics approved and a teaching job lined up, Timur Kuran decided it was “an excellent time, before I got back into the grind, to broaden myself, to read some things I wouldn’t normally read.”
Professor Joe Hotz discusses his recent research on risky behavior and adolescents. Duke Today featured a video presentation of the work. The paper, "Games Parents and Adolescents Play" appeared in the April 2008 issue of the Economic Journal.
