The Canadian Economics Association has awarded the 2026 John Rae Prize to Professor Diego Restuccia. Named for the author of the 1905 Sociological Theory of Capital, originally published as the New Pr...

When a professor emeritus dies, they do need to be erased from the active faculty listing. They should not be erased from history. That was the sensitive reasoning that inspired Ronald Wolthoff, Profe...

From Hong Kong to Beijing and Kunshan, IHPST alumni are building academic careers across Asia, bringing with them the interdisciplinary training and intellectual flexibility that define the program.…

PhD student Jonathan Brasseur has been awarded a Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) Doctoral Research Scholarship. The award carries an annual stipend of $25,000 for up to 4 years of graduate studies....

The Sixth Annual Tech Econference was on May 11, 2026. The online conference, hosted by the Department of Economics, featured nine presentations of ten minutes in length based on papers submitted duri...

Professor Courtney Ward has won a Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award for 2025–26. Professor Ward teaches the undergraduate courses ECO372, Data Analysis and Applied Econometrics in...

One billion people around the world have pulled themselves and each other out of poverty since 1990. It is one statistic former World Trade Organization Chief Economist, Professor Ralph Ossa cited in ...

The 2026 Backpacks to Briefcases: Economics at Work event was on 26 February.  Graduating students attended to hear a panel of three alumni; Elisa Bozzo, Ritu Sharma, and Brett Lin talk about their ex...

Interested in climate economics? You are invited to the launch of two new books. Process as Power: The Legitimacy of Indigenous Consultation in British Columbia Environmental Assessments by Minh Do ...