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By Douglas Clement

Professor Timothy Kehoe weighs in on economic theory and practice.

By Chrisitne Cumming

Littermans talk about the science and serendipity of succeeding, living well, and giving back.

By Elizabeth Hilberg

Levin Learns Life Lessons from his U of M Economics Major.

By Douglas Clement

Alice Schoonbroodt has "everything but regret" after entering the U's graduate program.

Ed Prescott, now at Arizona State but a professor in Minnesota's Department of Economics from 1980 to 2003, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics together with Finn E. Kydland, Ed's student at Carnegie Mellon in the 1970s. The prize was awarded "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."

By Douglas Clement

Looser fiscal limits in Europe could create a severe trial for its central bank, according to V.V. Chari and Pat Kehoe.

By Douglas Clement

The Minneapolis Fed and the
University of Minnesota: A partnership
This is precisely how government, business, and education ought to work together.

By Ed Foster