UWM Economics Club

UWM Economics Club presents Andrew Dunn-Bauman, Thursday at 5:00 PM in Union W191!

Econ Club meets today at 5:15 PM in Union W183!

We'll plan for our second movie night, our next guest speaker, and listen to an episode of The Indicator from Planet Money.

Hope to see you there!

Join us tonight for guest speaker Luke Delaney!
Luke is the GM for Maternal and Infant Care at GE Healthcare.
Come check him out to learn about economics applications in the field!

Welcome to Fall 2019.
Econ Club trip to the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank on Friday 9/20. Bus leaves the Union at 9 a.m. and returns around 6 p.m. There are a few seats left (send Prof. Neumann an email if you want to go).

Econ Club Meeting Thursday, 11/1/2018, Lubar S220, 6:15-7:15 p.m. Come hear Professor Scott Adams!

Raj Chetty-- Stanford economist and all-around great scientist-- has a history of getting his hands on major data like this, and using it to produce some hard-hitting research.

--Chris

Facebook’s next project: American inequality A Stanford economist is using the company's vast store of personal data to study why so many in the U.S. are stuck in place economically.

Congratulations to all graduating economics majors! A special congrats to our sitting president Evan Andrew and our treasurer Raphael Allen who are leaving with their Masters Degrees. May all of you go on to great things; hopefully to be invited back by the Econ Club someday!

A great place for anyone interested in learning more about economic growth.

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Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century | Brookings Institution In “Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century,” Princeton Professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton follow up on their groundbreaking 2015 paper that revealed a shocking increase in midlife mortality…

Venezuela Is So Broke It Can’t Even Export Oil Oil tankers flush with crude wallow adrift in the Caribbean, as cash-strapped PdVSA can’t pay the bills.

Professor James Heckman: "The Economics of Inequality and Human Development" Lecture Nobel laureate, Professor James Heckman (Chicago) delivered a lecture on 3 September 2013 on "The Economics of Inequality and Human Development." This policy...