Economics Professor Alexander James sat down with the Anchorage Daily News and discussed how he got interested in the puzzle of the "resource curse" before he ever thought of studying Alaska.
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Economics major Lyndea Kelleher was chosen as student commencement speaker out of 1,240 spring graduates. She talks about her experiences while at UAA in this story in the Anchorage Daily News.
Read: Economics Major Lyndea Kelleher Featured in ADN
Civil conflict is a persistent source of misery to humankind. There is, however, a lack of a comprehensive scientific theory of the sources of civil conflict even though the question of cooperation or conflict is at the heart of political economy. Atin Basuchoudhary introduces machine learning to explore whether there can even be a unified theory of conflict.
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Megan will graduate with a double major in economics and German and a minor in math. Her father teaches economics at West High and introduced her early on to Dr. Kyle Hampton, who until last year taught economics at UAA.
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Simple nudges, such as changing defaults or sending encouraging messages, can significantly increase individual contributions to retirement savings. Recent evidence, however, suggests that many nudges fail and that the effects of other nudges are short lived.
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