Author: Leslie Winkler

Scott Baier, acting associate dean for research and economics professor, discusses how imposed tariffs could impact South Carolina’s billion-dollar industries on WYFF4.

Reed Watson, director of the Hayek Center for the Business of Prosperity, discusses why insurance premiums are rising due to natural disasters and how everyone could be affected on WSPA.com.

Discussed in Daily News, Vitor Melo, a current Ph.D. student, has a new working paper where he investigates some of the unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage. He summarizes his findings in this op-ed piece. Read the full article.

Featured in a Fox Business article, Scott Baier, acting associate dean for research and economics professor, discusses the likely impact of higher tariffs on goods produced in China and how electronics, smartphones and other goods may be impacted impacted in the short run and long run. Read the full article.

Gross domestic product is explained and its importance highlighted by Scott Baier, acting associate dean for research and economics professor, in The Motley Fool.

Scott Baier, acting associate dean for research and economics professor, explains consumer price index in The Motley Fool.

Scott Baier, acting associate dean for research and economics professor, discusses the fundamentals of economics, including branches and key concepts in The Motley Fool.

The John E. Walker Department of Economics welcomes David Drukker, Paulo Lins, Joseph Pedtke, Adam Soliman, Eamon Espey, Chris Marshall and Gary Shiffman. David Drukker joined the Sam Houston State University Department, where he spent the last four years as an Associate Professor. Before his appointment at SHSU, David spent 20 years at Stata, where […]

Gerald P. Dwyer, economics professor and BB&T Scholar examines the U.S. government’s strategic value in holding significant amounts of bitcoin. Dwyer says that while some proposals suggest potential high returns, but proposes that selling the gold reserves might be a more practical approach for the government to reduce debt or adjust fiscal policies. This would […]

On April 15, 2024, the Information Economy Project Center hosted Virginia Postrel to give the Tullock Lecture on Big Ideas About Information. She is a world-renowned author, columnist, speaker and Greenville native. Her work spans a broad range of topics, from social science to fashion, concentrating on the intersection of culture, commerce and technology, with […]