• Source: Princeton University Department of Economics
    • The Princeton University Department of Economics is an academic department of Princeton University, an Ivy League institution located in Princeton, New Jersey. The department is renowned as one of the premier programs worldwide for the study of economics. The university offers undergraduate A.B. degrees, as well as graduate degrees at the Ph.D. level. It is often considered one of the "big five" schools in the field, along with the faculties at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Stanford University, and MIT. According to the 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report, its graduate department is ranked as the joint No. 4 in the field of economics, in a four-way tie between it, the University of Chicago, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
      The department is centered at the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building & Louis A. Simpson International Building, formerly 20 Washington Road, which also houses the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Bendheim Center for Finance, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance. It is also home to the Industrial Relations Library.


      History


      Since the university's founding in 1746, many courses in the social sciences, including history and politics, were taught in the department of Jurisprudence and Political Economy. Coursework specifically in political economy became available in 1819. When Woodrow Wilson became a professor in 1890, additional courses were added to the curriculum, including the History of Political Economy. By 1913, the department became independent from history and politics, forming the Department of Economics and Social Institutions.


      Academics


      The undergraduate program is one of the most prestigious programs for the study of economics in the country and in the world. Economics is the most popular concentration (Princeton's version of an academic major) at the undergraduate level. Because the university does not have a business school, the economics concentration attracts many students who are interested in careers in investment banking, management consulting, finance, technology, and more. The curriculum itself is theoretical in nature, requiring students complete quantitative courses up to multivariate calculus. In partnership with the Bendheim Center for Finance, the department also offers an Undergraduate Finance Certificate.
      The graduate program in economics trains Ph.D. students for careers in academia, government, and industry. It receives approximately 800 applications for a class of 20 to 25 students who come from over 30 different countries around the world. The program has numerous fields of specialization and has been particularly strong in the areas of Macroeconomics, Industrial Relations, and International Finance. Graduate students who pursue academic careers have historically had placement records at some of the world's leading universities including Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Cornell.
      The department also oversees a number of centers and initiatives, including:

      Bendheim Center for Finance
      The Benjamin H. Griswold III, Class of 1933, Center for Economic Policy Studies
      The Gregory C. Chow Econometric Research Program
      Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance
      Center for Health and Wellbeing
      William S. Dietrich II Economic Theory Center
      Industrial Relations Section
      International Economics Section
      Office of Population Research
      Political Economy Program
      Princeton Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences (PExL)
      Research Program in Development Studies
      The Gregory C. and Paula K. Chow Macroeconomic Research Program
      Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics


      Rankings




      = National Rankings

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      The 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report places its graduate department as No. 4 nationwide in the field of Economics, tied there with the University of Chicago, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley. The National Research Council's rankings place the university at No. 2 in the S-Rank (Scholars Rank) and No. 2 in the Research Rank.


      = International Rankings

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      In the 2018 Q.S. World University Rankings, the department places as No. 3 in the world in the fields of Economics and Econometrics. The 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranks the department as No. 7 globally. It has been ranked by RePEc among the top ten economics Departments in the world.


      Notable faculty




      = Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

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      Among the department's past and current faculty members are several recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences:

      Other notably past and present faculty members include:

      Mark Aguiar
      Orley Ashenfelter
      Alan Blinder, the 15th Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve
      Markus Brunnermeier
      Roland Bénabou
      Leah Platt Boustan
      Markus Brunnermeier
      Anne Case
      Janet M. Currie
      Henry Farber
      John Kenneth Galbraith, a leading academic on post-Keynesian economics; former United States Ambassador to India
      Mikhail Golosov
      Gene Grossman
      Faruk Gül
      Kate Ho
      Bo E. Honoré
      Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
      Henrik Kleven
      Ilyana Kuziemko
      Alexandre Mas
      Atif Mian
      Wolfgang Pesendorfer
      Stephen J. Redding
      Uwe Reinhardt, a scholar on health care economics and Medicare
      Richard Rogerson
      Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
      Cecilia Rouse, the 30th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
      Harold Tafler Shapiro
      Mark W. Watson
      Wei Xiong
      Leeat Yariv
      Motohiro Yogo


      See also


      MIT Department of Economics
      Chicago School of Economics
      Paris School of Economics
      London School of Economics
      University of Pennsylvania Economics Department
      University of Rochester Economics Department


      References




      External links


      Official website

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