News http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news/rss admin 2008-10-02T10:53:22Z Andrew Chesher appointed as William Stanley Jevons Chair of Economics and Economic Measurement http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news-library/may13/chesher15may13 Perhaps the most eminent figure to hold a professorship of economics at UCL was William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), also earlier a student of the college. Often seen as the main British contributor to the marginalist revolution in economic thought of the 1870s, he challenged Ricardian ideas, seeking for instance to replace theories of value based on labour input with theories based on utility. In his support for the use of mathematical analysis in economics and in his practical use of economic statistics, he can be seen as one of the first exponents of recognisably modern econometric methods. Andrew Chesher’s standing in the profession and his contributions make him an extremely worthy holder of the William Stanley Jevons Chair of Economics and Economic Measurement. Charlotte Choudhry 2013-05-15T07:20:28Z Fabien Postel-Vinay to join UCL Economics http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news-library/may13/postel-vnay14may13 UCL Economics is pleased to announce that Fabien Postel-Vinay (Bristol) will join the department this coming academic year. We are proud to be able to add his significant talent to our departmental portfolio. Charlotte Choudhry 2013-05-14T07:30:19Z Orazio Attanasio appointed as Jeremy Bentham Chair of Economics http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news-library/may13/attanasio13may13 Jeremy Bentham, was the “spiritual founder” of UCL and a key player in the establishment of UCL Economics. He made fundamental contributions to economics and many of them still shape modern economic theory. Perhaps most importantly, Bentham developed Utilitarianism. Although his felicific calculus has not survived to modern economic theory, the idea of utility being the main object of interest for welfare and choice theory is still very much the dominating paradigm. Utilitarianism also provides the foundation of much modern econometric measurement, testing and estimation of economic theory without which macroeconomics would have little relevance. Bentham also worked on macroeconomic theory including monetary economics. Orazio Attanasio has made fundamental contributions to many of these areas and is an extremely worthy holder of the Jeremy Bentham Chair of Economics. Charlotte Choudhry 2013-05-13T08:25:53Z Andrew Chesher to deliver the Walras Bowley Lecture http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news-library/may13/chesher09may13  Andrew Chesher delivers the Walras Bowley Lecture , "Limited Information Econometrics", at the North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Los Angeles, June 14 2013. Charlotte Choudhry 2013-05-09T08:02:06Z Eric French to join UCL Economics http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news-library/may13/french07may13 The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Eric French (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) has decided to accept our offer for a chair in applied economics and will be joining us this summer. Charlotte Choudhry 2013-05-07T08:42:22Z Antonio Cabrales to join UCL Economics http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news-library/april13/cabrales22apr13 UCL Economics is pleased to announce that Antonio Cabrales will join the department this coming academic year. Antonio is an outstanding economist with a very broad research agenda. We are proud to be able to add his significant talent to our departmental portfolio. Charlotte Choudhry 2013-04-22T08:01:02Z UCL Festival of Arts, 7-17 May 2013 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news-library/april13/ucl-fest-of-arts Start: May 7, 2013 1:00:00 PM End: May 17, 2013 7:30:00 PM Charlotte Choudhry 2013-04-11T08:00:39Z Byron Fellowship http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/news-library/april13/byron03apr13 Congratulations to Theodore Pang, a final year undergraduate studying Philosophy and Economics and winner of the 2013 Byron Fellowship. Charlotte Choudhry 2013-04-03T07:26:58Z