Flat Tax

To get an idea of whether a flat tax would be an improvement for America, FOX 9 News spoke with Christopher Phelan.

Nobels Give Econometrics Pioneers Their Due

Alumnus Lars Peter Hansen, a research assistant for both Sims and Sargent when he was a graduate student at Minnesota, says their Nobel award gives the econometrics pioneers their due in Business Week.

The Nobel prize in economics: How to know what causes what

"Both laureates spent the main portion of their careers together at the University of Minnesota--one of the bastions of the "freshwater" school of macroeconomics--in the 1970s and 1980s." -- The Economist

Sargent and Sims: Uneasy With Labels (or Attention)

Sims and Sargent, colleagues at the University of Minnesota in the 1970s and '80s -- "the 'warring schools' period of economics" -- were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday, October 10. New York Times

Ideas were incubated in Minnesota

V.V. Chari discusses the significance of the work of the 2011 Nobel laureates Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims that was done in Minnesota in the Star Tribune.

Nobel Prize winners were colleagues at U of M

The two winners of the Nobel economics prize were once half of the "four horsemen" at the University of Minnesota, debating theories that would change how governments manage the economy.

Nobel economics laureates Sargent and Sims continue U of M legacy

Today's announcement that the Nobel Prize in economics is being awarded to two economists with ties to the University of Minnesota further burnishes the U's reputation in "the dismal science." Economics as a discipline now claims more laureates from the U than any other discipline. The U now ranks second among public research universities with ties to economic laureates.

Two former faculty members receive the Nobel Prize

Two former University of Minnesota Department of Economics faculty - Thomas Sargent, HHEI board member and professor at New York University, and Christopher Sims, professor at Princeton University - have been awarded the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy."