The Department of Economics blog @ Wesleyan University
The Wesleyan Economics department is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018-19 Lebergott-Lovell prize. The department awards this prize for the best paper written for a course in the academic year that uses empirical techniques to analyze an economic problem and is named in honor of the late Stanley Lebergott and Michael Lovell, who … Read more
Michael C. Lovell, the Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics and Social Science, emeritus, died December 20, 2018, at the age of 88. Mike earned a BA in from Reed College in 1952, an MA from Stanford in 1954, and a PhD from Harvard in 1959. He first taught at Wesleyan as a part-time visiting … Read more
On March 25, the Economics Department held a seminar in memory of Michael C. Lovell, Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics, emeritus, who died in December. Speakers included Wesleyan’s Provost and Andrews Professor of Economics, Joyce Jacobsen, Duffy White (Russian Language and Literature. emeritus), and Gil Skillman, Chris Hogendorn, Wendy Rayack, and Richard Grossman from … Read more
