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Articles tagged with "economics"

01/26/2013

For Love or Money: Marriage and Economic Development in the Past

Douglas Smith

Getting married and moving out of your parents' house may be key to your personal economic development, but are marriage patterns key to an entire society's development as well? Professor of Social Science History Tracy Dennison tells us what love's got to do with it at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 30, 2013, in Caltech's Beckman Auditorium. Admission is free.

12/08/2005

Experimental Economists Find Brain Regions That Govern Fear of the Economic Unknown

Robert Tindol

Do you have second thoughts when ordering a strange-sounding dish at an exotic restaurant? Afraid you'll get fricasseed eye of newt, or something even worse? If you do, it's because certain neurons in the brain are saying that the potential reward for the risk is unknown. These regions of the brain have now been pinpointed by experimental economists at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Iowa College of Medicine.

05/25/2005

New Study Suggests That State Proposal Would Drive Electricity Prices Higher

Robert Tindol

A new study, on the organization of the wholesale electricity market conducted by California Institute of Technology and Purdue University economists, suggests that a plan being considered by the California Energy Commission (CEC) to require electric utility companies to make public their procurement strategies would result in higher costs for utility customers.

08/21/2002

Grant awarded to Caltech to study the neural wiring of moral and economic choices

Robert Tindol

Steven Quartz, an associate professor of philosophy and member of the Computation and Neural Systems program at the California Institute of Technology, will lead a new program to examine the neural basis of economic and moral decision-making. The program is made possible by a $1 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

06/22/2000

Caltech Professor Colin F. Camerer Elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society

Deborah Williams-Hedges

Dr. Camerer Elected as Econometric Society Fellow

02/16/1998

Caltech Anthropologist Named to World Commission on Dams

Robert Tindol

Caltech anthropologist, Thayer Scudder, has been appointed to the World Commission on Dams, created by the World Conservation Union and the World Bank to review the costs and benefits of large dams throughout the world.