Economics is crucial in At Berkeley. “Public education is the number one tool for social mobility,” insists one activist, responding to draconian budget cuts and increasing income disparity.

Today, nearly 89, the retired UC Berkeley economics professor is working on two books and has published a journal article arguing that balanced, humane economic policies always spur growth no ...

Originating in 2009, the Lecture Series is the flagship series of Science at Cal. Taking place in person on Berkeley's campus, these in-depth public science lectures feature renowned UC Berkeley ...

Colleges that do offer lecture videos free on YouTube or iTunes typically select just a handful of courses to feature, rather than the more comprehensive approach that Berkeley has taken.

This year’s Nobel Prize in economics will be awarded to two American economists, James J. Heckman, of the University of Chicago, and Daniel L. McFadden, of the University of California at ...

UC Berkeley’s Blockchain at Berkeley (B@B) is hosting a three-day Crypto-Economics Security Conference (CESC) from Monday, October 2nd to Wednesday, October 4th in the Pauley Ballroom located at ...

Philip Oreopoulos Dr. Philip Oreopoulos is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, at Berkeley and his M.A. from ...

Political Science and Public Policy Professor Henry Brady gave the Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lecture on evolutions in United States democracy.