Lou Cain

Lou Cain (Northwestern and Loyola) will be our final seminar speaker for the year. He will be on campus on Friday, May 9th. His seminar will be held at 3:30 pm in room 230 Wimberly (title TBA)

The Monty Hall Problem

Check out this article by John Tierney based on an economist's work that argues that previous studies on cognitive dissonance and how we rationalize our choices fail due to a statistical problem known as "The Monty Hall Problem".

Visualizing Economics

I think that we have possibly shared the link to this site before (at least via email among the faculty) but I just ran across it again and find it to be very useful.

Check out Visualizing Economics: Making the Invisible Hand Visible.