We are pleased to share some recent graduate school and professional placements of our alumni. Congratulations to class of 2021 majors Emilio Montalvo and Jamie Allbritton on their acceptances to...

Dr. Maryam Ahmadi was hired last summer as an affiliate assistant professor of economics. She holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Texas at Dallas and B.S. and M.A. degrees in...

Over last spring and summer, I hosted a UD student panel at the SSSA Conference, published a book chapter, and was a guest on a faith and science podcast. I was very pleased to organize and...

I have a new article that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Psychology. Titled "Sacrifice: An experiment on the political economy of extreme intergroup punishment,"...

Junior politics (formerly economics!) major Aubrey Wieberg was at the head of a student-led effort to bring the Big Event — a day of service in the community around UD — to the UD campus. Big...

Hello again! Despite all the COVID limitations, there is much afoot! The journal I mentioned in the last edition of the newsletter is now up and running. Oikonomos, generously made possible by the...

Calls for greater racial and economic equality that have been amplified by the events of the spring and summer of 2020 ring close to the hearts of much of the work being done by Department of...

I have a number of exciting updates since I’ve last seen most of you. My book, Shifting Capital: Mercantilism and the Economics of the Act of Union of 1707, was published by Palgrave in their...

Ten or so years ago it occurred to me that I spend much of my life staring at screens. I spend hours looking at television, the computer monitor (both desktop and laptop), Kindle and printed...