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Prediction markets and betting platforms aggregate collective knowledge, being often more accurate than traditional polls or expert forecasts.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Eileen Kiely, MA Economics '96, with the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award in economics. Kiely is managing director at BlackRock, where she leads the firm’s counterparty, trading, and securities lending risk function.

Why do Americans pay so much at the pharmacy counter? One often overlooked factor is that established pharmaceutical companies have been working with big government to short-circuit the free market and make it impossible for generic medicines to compete.

The [visa] lottery would now place heavier weight on petitioners in higher pay brackets, Clemens said. That will ultimately disadvantage entry-level foreign workers, he said, for whom companies may be hesitant to pay a $100,000 fee.

The Economics Department is excited to share our Online Master of Arts program has been ranked #4 by Forbes!