The Department of Economics offers B.S. degrees in Economics and in International Trade and Finance within the E. J. Ourso College of Business, a B.A. degree in Economics through the College of Arts and Sciences, and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Economics. Our courses provide students with an intellectual challenge and strong analytic training, and salaries of our majors are very competitive with those of other business disciplines.[MORE]
Naci Mocan, Ourso Distinguished Chair of Economics in LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business, had his working article “Vengeance” cited as part of the New York Times article entitled “Calculating Economics of an Eye for an Eye.”
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James Richardson, professor of economics and the director of the Public Administration Institute in LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business, was quoted in The Greater Baton Rouge
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Naci Mocan, Ourso Distingusihed Chair of Economics in LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business, had his working paper “Vengeance” featured in a New York Times opinion article “Vengence is Whose?”
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James Richardson, professor of economics and the director of the Public Administration Institute in LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business, was recently named to the Plan Baton Rouge Phase 2 team.
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James Richardson, professor of economics and the director of the Public Administration Institute in LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business, was quoted in The Baton Rouge Advocate
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