Department of Economics
College of Arts & Sciences

ECONOMICS SEMINAR What is a “belief” in science? Why are smart people neglecting prior information? "Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Approaches to Scientific Modeling and Inference in Economics and Econometrics" by Arnold Zellner, H.G.B. Alexander Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Statistics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Date: Friday, May 8, 2009 Time: 3:30-5:00 PM Location: Spertus Lounge (Room 244) Auditorium Building 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL Roosevelt University and the Department of Economics are proud to welcome Professor Arnold Zellner, a pioneer of modern Bayesian statistics, a celebrated teacher, and one of the most decorated and important economic statisticians of the past century. He is among other things “Distinguished Fellow” of the American Economic Association, past-president of the American Statistical Association, Founder and past-president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At the University of Chicago and around the world, Arnold Zellner has advised scores and scores of Nobel laureates, government officials, business forecasters, and other users of statistics to (in some cases) radically revise the way they think about “probability” (He doesn’t claim they listen.) Trained originally as a physicist at Harvard University, Zellner has authored or co-authored 22 distinctive books and monographs and over 265 scientific articles. Please join us in welcoming this truly outstanding scholar to Roosevelt University. Download the paper here The event is free and open to the public. Contact: Steve Ziliak, Professor of Economics, sziliak@roosevelt.edu

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Think Economics should be the study of income distribution, globalization, caring labor, wages and working conditions, equity and social justice? 

Welcome to the Other Chicago School of Economics

• Bachelor of Arts in Economics
• Master of Arts in Economics

• Bachelor of Arts in Social Justice Studies

Economics was one of the first majors offered at Roosevelt and continues to be a center of excellence in the university, dedicated to socially responsible teaching, learning and scholarship. Economics students study the economy and how it works with a focus on questions of equality and equity as well as the more traditional economic emphasis on efficiency.

Our faculty are drawn to the study of economics by a commitment to social justice. Economics students are prepared to be socially conscious citizens and leaders in their professions, whether in business, public service, research, teaching or other careers.

Nationwide, economics graduates continue to be well paid and in demand. The American Economics Association maintains a clearinghouse of job opportunities for economists (MA and PhD). You can see it by clicking here. To see the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the economics profession in its Occupational Handbook, click here.

The skills acquired in studying economics are applicable to a wide variety of job responsibilities and many occupations. Roosevelt economics graduates have pursued careers in teaching, urban planning, statistical analysis, the law, labor research, financial analysis, and journalism, among others.

The Economics Department also coordinates the program in Social Justice Studies. The Bachelor's Degree program in Social Justice Studies is an interdisciplinary program that integrates theories, methods, and substance of economics, history, political science and sociology as they bear on questions of social justice. What is social justice? What are the processes that produce injustice in our world and how do they operate? How are people working - or how might people work - to achieve social justice.

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