Economics

2016 D.K. Smith Symposium

Can We Really Believe Everything We Read about the U.S. Labor Market? Julie L. Hotchkiss, Research Economist & Senior Policy Advisor The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Economics Reception for Seniors and their families.

Economics Reception for Seniors and their families.

“Beyond Wall Street: A Field Guide for Economics Majors” brings back Economics alumni, representing a diverse array of careers, who share their paths and professional lives with students and demonstrate what possibilities exist for current Economics majors. Economics prepares students to succeed in a vast array of interesting and rewarding industries, and the Field Guide can help students think broadly about where their study in might take them.

Andrew Flowers, former Quantitative Editor and Economics Writer for FiveThirtyEight.com, will profile six types of data journalism stories. Several stories will serve as examples, such as p-hacking in nutrition studies, police officer shootings, Uber’s effect on taxis, and what local characteristics explain Donald Trump’s electoral victory.

Sponsored by: Middlebury Mathematics, Political Science, Economics, and CTLR. 

2017 Economics Thesis poster presentations

Speaker: Price Fishback, University of Arizona, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

As the 90th Academy Award ceremony approaches, MiddLaw would like to present documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, which details the legal battle struggle of the only U.S. bank indicted after the 2008 financial crisis. Abacus Federal Savings Bank, the first Chinese-owned bank in New York’s Chinatown, was accused of mortgage fraud in a lawsuit that spanned five years.