University of Pennsylvania Economics Department
| Type | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Website | economics |
The Department of Economics of the
History
Edmund J. James | |
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 Edmund J. James, the first professor of economics at Penn |
The social sciences began to be offered in Penn's curriculum beginning in the 1870s. Then, Robert Ellis Thompson (1844–1924) was chosen as Penn's first Professor of Social Sciences in 1874.
The university as a whole modeled its graduate school on the German model of education, emphasizing a combination of research and pedagogy. Upon graduation, students received a Bachelor of Science in Economics.[3]
In 2013, the department received $25 million for the establishment of the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, where it currently resides.[4]
Academics
The Department's undergraduate program is one of the largest in the School of Arts and Sciences.
It also offers graduate courses leading to a Ph.D. in economics. There are currently more than 100 students within the graduate program.[7]
Penn Institute for Economic Research
The Department houses the Penn Institute for Economic Research (PIER). Founded in 1993 with a donation from
Academic journals
The Department is the editorial home of the International Economic Review, one of the leading general audience journals in economics.[9] It is also affiliated with Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics.
Rankings
Penn Economics is currently ranked 10th in the United States by
Notable alumni
- Bank of Italy
- Kim Choongsoo, Governor of the Bank of Korea
- Joaquin Vial, Board Member Central Bank of Chile
- Lars-Hendrik Röller, Germany's Chief Economic Adviser
- Ernesto J. Cordero, Mexico's Minister of Finance
- José Julián Sidaoui, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Mexico
- MIT
- Alfonso Prat Gay, former Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina
- Côte d'Ivoire(Ivory Coast)
- Morton O. Schapiro, President of Northwestern University
- Nariman Behravesh, President of Global Insight, the world's largest economics organization
- Winnie Monsod, former President of the Philippines National Economic and Development Authority
- Nancy Stokey, Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
- Edmond Villani, Director of Cohen & Steers, Inc.
- Marc Ivaldi, Member of the Toulouse School of Economics
- Gonzalo Garland, Executive Vice President of IE Foundation and professor at IE Business School
References
- ^ "Economics at Pennsylvania". The History of Economic Thought.
- ^ "Edmund J. James, 1855-1925". The History of Economic Thought.
- ^ Anderson, Kym; O'Neil, Bernard (2009). The Building of Economics at Adelaide, 1901-2001. p. 1.
- ^ "Penn Receives $25 Million Gift to Create Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics". MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated.
- ^ Overview | Penn Economics
- ^ "Majors and Minors". Penn Economics.
- ^ "Letter from the Chair". Penn Economics.
- ^ "History". Penn Institute for Economic Research.
- ^ "A Journal Ranking for the Ambitious Economist" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-11-30.
- ^ Best Economics Programs | Top Economics Schools | US News Best Graduate Schools
- ^ "World University Rankings 2019 by subject: business and economics". Times Higher Education.
- ^ "Tilburg University Economics Ranking - Tilburg University". econtop.uvt.nl.
- ^ "Economics rankings: Economics Departments | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org.
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