J-Term Opportunity

J-term 2009: Voyages with a Vision II: Reality Tour to Tanzania
FOCUS: Social Responsibility, Ethical Globalization, Service Learning

Students will come face to face with crucial issues about globalization and its impact on communities to better understand them and see socially responsible business and other grassroots solutions in action.

More detailed information can be found at: http://www.uwlax.edu/faculty/anderson/information%20Tanzania%208-27-08.doc

(See also UWL's Study Abroad Link to J-Term Offerings)

Contact Professor Donna Anderson and/or attend one of the information sessions:

INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS
DATES: Sept 10 and Sept 22, 2008
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: Ward Room, Cartwright

Congratulations

Congratulations to Economics major John Lauermann for receiving the prestigious 2008 Murphy Award for being the top graduating senior in May 2008. More details on John's achievement can be found here.

Politics and Economists

Greg Mankiw has an interesting strategy for any politician courting the economist vote.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-win-economist-vote.html

Interactive Inflation

Check out this interesting interactive inflation graphic in todays New York Times: All of Inflation's Little Parts.

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.