Professor Georg Nöldeke, professor of economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics at University of Basel is visiting Yale-NUS College. Read more about his research interests and published papers here.
Previous Month, 08 Dec 2015
Assistant Professor Francis Dennig’s research is on the news at the Paris Climate Change Summit! See the full article here.
Previous Month, 17 Sep 2015
SMU Seminar Series: Marginal Treatment Effects and the External Validity of the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment.
Economists today study topics that are so varied that to describe the field in
terms of a set of questions of inquiry (e.g., "What to produce?", "How to
produce?", and "For whom to produce?") is too limiting. Broadly, in economics,
we are interested in analyzing individuals' choices, their interactions, and the
resulting outcomes within social, economic and political institutions. What is
critical to this analysis is the use of the economic method to make well reasoned
arguments. As J.M. Keynes wrote in 1922, ‘The Theory of Economics does not
furnish a body of settled conclusions immediately applicable to policy. It is a
method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking,
which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.’ The Economics Major at
Yale-NUS is designed to develop students' critical thinking skills as well as
equip them with analytical tools that will enable them to participate effectively
in an increasingly global world. ”
Economists today study topics that are so varied that to describe the field in terms of a set of questions of inquiry (e.g., "What to produce?", "How to produce?", and "For whom to produce?") is too limiting. Broadly, in economics, we are interested in analyzing individuals' choices, their interactions, and the resulting outcomes within social, economic and political institutions. What is critical to this analysis is the use of the economic method to make well reasoned arguments. As J.M. Keynes wrote in 1922, ‘The Theory of Economics does not furnish a body of settled conclusions immediately applicable to policy. It is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking, which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.’ The Economics Major at Yale-NUS is designed to develop students' critical thinking skills as well as equip them with analytical tools that will enable them to participate effectively in an increasingly global world. ”
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