Economics.rice.edu Website Review

the undergraduate program of the economics department is one of the largest undergraduate programs at rice. the graduate program offers a phd in economics  and a masters in energy economics.    faculty members are actively engaged in innovative research and effective teaching. the department of economics, located in the rice university's school of social sciences, is a center of excellence for research and teaching in economics.  its faculty, engaged in cutting-edge research and effective teaching, is committed to the advancement of knowledge in all areas of economics and to foster a better understanding of the importance of economic research in the formulation and as*essment of its faculty, the department has established itself as a world-leading institution for structural empirical microeconomics. the structural approach to empirical economics emphasizes the importance of a rigorous combination of economic theory, econometrics and data an*lysis to address substantively important issues in all areas of economics. at the beginning of each semester, james brown, a professor of economics, tells his students good news and bad news about his the junior and senior clas*es have bestowed upon james denicco, lecturer in economics, rice’s oldest teaching award: the nicolas faculty and graduate and undergraduate students in the department of economics were honored for outstanding achievements at the rice. $6.6m grant from arnold foundation to fund texas policy lab at rice u. rice university’s school of social sciences will launch an effort this fall to work side by side with texas’ officeholders and... rice u. to break ground on new school of social sciences building this summer. rice university will break ground on the patricia lipoma kraft ’87 and jonathan a. kraft hall for social sciences, a new home.. economics professor james brown, who last month received rice’s george r. brown certificate of highest merit in recognition of..