USAO Economics Department

04/25/2022

An excellent article about chasing jobs with public money: financial incentives never matter as much as investments in quality of life.

Can Oklahoma learn from previous incentives deals on how best to bid for a Panasonic battery factory?

04/23/2022

Congrats to our Econ majors who walked across a stage today and became college graduates!

Lyca Balbuena, Milagros Carrera, Kiko Hernandez Esteban, Madison Homer, Balazs Illovai, Daniel Roach, and Alex Strain are out in the real world now, and they will no doubt change it for the better!

If you have photos from the day, drop them in the comments.

04/11/2022

A very good explanation of the ways Modern Monetary Theory differs from mainstream macro.

In the November/December 2021 issue of Intereconomics, Françoise Drumetz and Christian Pfister examine Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and approach it from the policy consequences that would follow. This paper is a reply to Drumetz and Pfister. It restates the core of MMT and offers some suggestions f...

03/21/2022

Help us congratulate Econ major Daniel
Roach, who has been accepted into the Econ PhD program at Colorado State University! Daniel, who is a double major in the USAO Department of Sociology, makes us proud every day, and we’re not surprised that a major grad program wants him, too.

03/10/2022

CPI up 7.9% over a year.

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03/02/2022

"The point is, when it comes to explaining our current bout of high inflation, there’s no dearth of right answers. There are many forces at work. To bring inflation back down, we need more than a catalogue of everything that matters.”

As I watch—and participate in—the great inflation debate, I find myself thinking back to my time as an undergraduate, studying intermediate microeconomics with Professor John F. Henry. Henry was masterful in the classroom, and he’s the reason I decided to pursue my graduate studies in economic...

02/27/2022

Online shopping was supposed to give consumers more power and freedom. Instead, costs are so fluid that household goods fluctuate almost like Bitcoin.

02/09/2022

Help us congratulate Econ major Madison Homer on her acceptance into the Mercer University College of Law. We’re very proud, but not the least bit surprised, because we already know just how amazing she is.

01/28/2022

So proud of our Econ major. Congrats, Mili!

Milagros Carrera is the 5th Drover in program-history to reach the 1⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣ point milestone!👑

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01/28/2022

I take a look at kinetic exchange models of income, and what we can learn from their mistakes.

12/28/2021

What if the single most important idea in economics no longer works?