Economics

Please join the department of Economics for a reception celebrating graduates in this discipline.

This event will be a poster presentation by ECON and IPEC thesis students, followed by Q/A from the audience including faculty, students, staff and community.

David K. Smith ’42 Lecture
“How are Young Adults Fairing in Today’s Labor Market?”

William M. Rodgers III
Vice President and Director of Community Development Research
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Missouri

Beyond Wall Street: A Field Guide for Students Studying Economics

The Field Guide is one of CCI’s most popular signature programs, designed to help students imagine the many possibilities open to them with an Economics major. It brings together a panel of alumni from a range of sectors and fields to share their stories—highlighting the variety of paths they’ve taken and the lessons they’ve learned along the way.

The second Trump administration is implementing trade policies that have major impacts on international relations, supply chains, and more. This interdisciplinary symposium brings together leading scholars to assess how these policies are reshaping geopolitics and the global economy.

Speakers

Inu Manak, Fellow for trade policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Robert Staiger, Loren M. Berry Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Why is our food system broken? Austin Frerick describes the rise to power of 7 “food titans”, whose exploitation of consumers, farmers and workers has contributed to high prices and poor conditions for farmers and workers. Frerick is a Yale University agricultural policy fellow and the author of Barons: Money, Power and the Corruption of Food Industry, chosen as a Kirkus Review Best Indie Book of 2024.