Duke Economics

Faculty Books

Check out the following websites about books by our faculty:

Introduction to Numerical Simulation for Trade Theory and Policy by Ed Tower

Health Economics
by Frank Sloan

Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics
by Kevin Hoover

Microeconomics: An Intuitive Approach with Calculus by Thomas Nechyba

Big-Time Sports at American Universities
by Charles Clotfelter

Identity Economics 
by Rachel Kranton

The Long Divergence
by Timur Kuran

In the Media

Here are some popular news stories in which our faculty's work was highlighted:

Joe Hotz and Peter Arcidiacono in The New York Times: "Does Affirmative Action Do What It Should?"

Christopher Timmins in the Washington Post - "Shale gas boom makes some Pennsylvanians richer - and some poorer"

Andrew Patton in the BBC News - "Hedge Funds: Do some mislead their investors?"

Patrick Bayer in The Huffington Post - "All-White Jury Pools In Florida Convict Blacks 15 Percent More Often Than Whites, Study Finds"

Nir Jaimovich in The Atlantic - "Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries"

Peter Arcidiacono on NPR's The State of Things - Affirmative Action and Academic Performance

Andrew Sweeting in NSF Science Nation's "Ticket to Ride" video on price dynamics

Timur Kuran's Op-Ed in The New York Times - "The Weak Foundations of Arab Democracy"

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