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DEPARTMENT
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ECONOMICS
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This web page will eventually disappear as we transition to the new
Economics Department web page.
We invite you to learn more about us by visiting a class and/or by talking with one of us.
Please email Mrs. Anne-Marie Craig, our Department Assistant, to plan such a visit.
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A.K. Phifer Award
in Economics, 2008
"This year’s Phifer Award winner has been an outstanding student of economics, mastering both the “big picture” implications of the theories and the mathematical details of the models. Further, he has eagerly worked as a tutor to help beginning economics students advance their knowledge, and he is the incoming president of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the economics honorary society.Besides demonstrating superb skills in economics, he has excelled in course work in Spanish, and he will be doing extended research in urban areas in Latin America during the coming summer. The Department of Economics is pleased to present the A.K. Phifer Award to Thaddeus Peter Sieracki." (Award Citation)
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The Department of Economics awards up to a total of $1,200 a year to subsidize formal study, research, field work, or community service
consistent with the personal ideals of Ernest Finney Patterson, beloved professor of economics at Davidson College (1957-1979) and social activist.
Completed applications, available here,
are due by February 1 to the Department Chair.
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- Davidson's Economics Gateway
- Paul Krugman was awarded
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008
"for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity"; read about it
here.
- Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley) earned the 2009
American Economic Association John Bates Clark Medal,
which is awarded annually to the best economist under the age of 40,
for his work bringing the theory of taxation closer to practical policy making and helping to lead a resurgence of academic interest
in taxation. (Source: award citation).
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