Brown University

Brown University economics professor Peter Howitt wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Howitt, a professor emeritus of economics who joined the Brown faculty in 2000, was awarded “for the theory of sustained ...
The Economist

Economists are turning to culture to explain wealth and poverty

THE EMERGENCE of the discipline of economics in the 18th century was the result of people trying to explain something that had never happened before. At the time a handful of countries were ...
The Boston Globe

Is there a better model to explain economics in the Trump era?

A specter is haunting mainstream economics. It is the specter of . . . modern monetary theory? So recent essays from Harvard luminaries Kenneth Rogoff and Lawrence Summers attest. For Rogoff, MMT is ...
CNN

Mnuchin says Greta Thunberg can explain US economic policy after she studies economics in college

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday dismissed climate activist Greta Thunberg, saying the Swedish teen and Time Person of the Year should first go to college and study economics before she ...

Would a government shutdown hurt the economy? Experts explain

A government shutdown typically risks only modest damage for the U.S. economy, stemming mainly from furloughed public workers ...

Nobel economics prize goes to 3 researchers for explaining innovation-driven growth

Joel Mokyr is from Northwestern University, Philippe Aghion from the College de France and the London School of Economics, and Peter Howitt from Brown University.