Department of Economics

March 13th, 2024

The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives (2024) by Andrew Scott outlines the fundamental changes needed in our health system, the economy, and the financial sector in order to seize the advantages of longer lives. In this conversation, Georgetown University Professor Carole Roan Gresenz and author Andrew Scott will discuss some of the changes needed and consider how investing in our new longer futures can achieve better outcomes and stimulate economic growth.…

January 12th, 2024

In October, Georgetown University and the World Bank hosted a conference: “New Directions in the Fight Against Poverty: Honoring Martin Ravallion’s Legacy”. You can find the recording of the conference is also available.…

December 14th, 2023

A new partnership between economists at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Princeton and Yale seeks to transform the way economic research informs and shapes policy making. “The United Programs for Political Economy Research network, or UPPER, promotes political economy research and training through collaboration across many different political economy centers,” said Laurent Bouton, a co-founder of the organization and an economist in the College of Arts & Sciences. This new partnership is enlisting the help of interested economic researchers from across the country to revitalize political economy research through informed policy briefs, a pre-doctoral fellowship program and innovative in-person programming. Already, UPPER has published two policy briefs and welcomed its first cohort of fellows. The most recent brief, which focuses on how to trace and properly disclose corporate money in politics, was published last month. More information here, https://upperesearch.org/.…

December 5th, 2023

The Georgetown University Global Economic Challenges Network, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles) – Public Policy House will host an academic conference on Thursday, December 14, 2023 from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. EST both online and in-person at the Thon Hotel EU, Brussels (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. CET) entitled, “Our Global Economy: How to Move from Inequality to Shared Prosperity?”…