"As a pollination ecologist, it was exciting to collaborate with economists to write this review," says Elinor Lichtenberg. "One of our goals was to help ecologists understand the economics, and economists understand the ecological considerations and constraints involved. This will help develop solutions that benefit both wildlife and farmers."
Elinor Lichtenberg did her undergraduate work in biology at UMD, also spending a year working with Daniel Gruner and Dennis vanEngelsdorp in Entomology. Baylis also collaborates with vanEngelsdorp and the Bee Informed Partnership (BIP), a UMD-led nonprofit organization that conducts a nationwide annual survey each year since 2006 to assess managed honey bee health and colony loss.
People-first economics
"It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle up, not the top-down." —President Joe Biden
In recent weeks the Biden administration has unveiled two major spending proposals, including an infrastructure plan and the American Families Plan. These plans have a combined price tag of roughly $4 trillion over the next 10 years. Both proposals would require sizeable tax increases, which are being targeted to corporations and top earners.
The infrastructure plan includes spending for transportation, utilities, manufacturing, job creation and research, as well as home-and community-based care for the disabled and elderly. With an estimated $2.3 trillion price tag, this plan includes a wide range of spending priorities including many beyond traditional physical infrastructure.
Poole College of Management Names Denis Pelletier as the Economics Department Chair | News at
NC State Poole College of Management has announced Denis Pelletier as the new chair of the economics department effective July 1. Pelletier will be replacing Lee Craig who, after 10 years, will be stepping down from his role as department chair.
Pelletier currently serves as an associate professor of economics and has been with Poole College since 2003 when he joined as lecturer. His research focuses are in time series econometrics and financial economics and has been published in the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance , Risk Analysis and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics .
Wharton professor discusses the economics of racism | Penn Today
The viral pandemic and last summer's racial justice protests have thrown a national spotlight on longstanding racial and gender disparities within the U.S. economy, with unemployment rates chronically higher for African Americans and Hispanics, and levels of wealth, income, and homeownership sharply lower.
A Citigroup study found that white households' net worth grew 43%, to $61,200, between 1995 and 2016, while it remained flat at $35,400 for Black families. The study also found that 44% of Black households owned their homes in 2019, compared with 74% of white households.
Through economics, political science, and Latino studies, senior Diego Reynoso seeks to empower
After growing up in a neighborhood where many of his friends didn't make it to college, senior Diego Reynoso knows firsthand the challenges facing students in low-income communities.
Now, as the second person in his family to graduate from college, Reynoso hopes to use his Notre Dame education to empower Latino communities and marginalized individuals.
His time in the College of Arts & Letters and the Institute for Latino Studies , he said, has given him the skills, resources, and support to do so.
Economics in Brief: Top Bank Regulator Presses Pause on Controversial Overhaul of CRA Rules
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates most of the nation's banking system, announced on Tuesday it was pausing implementation of new regulations under the Community Reinvestment Act, or CRA. Passed in 1977, the act was intended to help counteract redlining and other discriminatory lending policies and practices that denied access to capital for low-income communities, particularly Black and immigrant communities.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency shares responsibility for CRA enforcement with the Federal Reserve and the FDIC, both of which rejected the Comptroller's changes last year. The changes would have resulted in two sets of CRA rules for different parts of the banking industry. That scenario is now unlikely.
Is recycling a waste? Here's the answer from a plastics expert
Recycling may make you feel better in a very small way about your role in helping to avert a global apocalypse, but even in "friendly" places, from John Oliver to NPR podcasts, recycling, especially of plastics, is being given a hard look. More people are wondering: Does it work?
The debate is not new. For years the economics of plastic recycling have been questioned. But the problem is not going away. The globe is already producing two trillion tons of solid waste a year and is on pace to add more than a trillion more on an annual basis in the coming decades, according to World Bank data.
Economics of hemp prove to be vexing | Hemp | capitalpress.com
They were given some seed for a 1-acre test field, one of the first 70 Oregon growers to plant hemp.
"As an architect, I'm familiar with its possibilities in the building industry alone," she said. "I thought in a couple years I'd be doing hempcrete in the garage and selling pavers but I never got that far because we haven't been able to make any money at all."
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