Jack Letiche, economist at his home in the Berkeley hills, with his wife, Emily, in background. Witnessing a violent incident as a boy during the Depression -- an evicted workman shot by a ...

Nestled comfortably between a bike, unopened moving boxes and a dog bed, James Campbell, UC Berkeley lecturer of economics and pedagogy, sits in his newly assigned office on the sixth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

After a spring marked by controversies involving free speech rights, the University of California, Berkeley has blocked a student-led effort to host popular conservative author Ben Shapiro for a ...