Discussing the AI Revolution, Eric Schmidt ’76, KBE, Former CEO and Chairman of Google, and Chair and CEO of Relativity Space, delivered a powerful address during his packed Reunions Talk. Watch the recording: https://bit.ly/3RnIHNj

Congratulations to Princeton Associate Professor of Economics Ernest Liu on receiving the 2025 SCOR-PSE Junior Research Prize! Liu & David Yang of Harvard were recognized for their paper, "International Power," which examines how global trade structure shapes national power. https://bit.ly/4fH9gVt

Princeton pre-doctoral researchers joined peers from leading institutions at Yale for the 2nd annual Pre-Doctoral Economics Conference. Juan G. Arias Navatta and Dylan Black presented their research alongside 30 other fellows with 70 total in attendance. Read more: https://bit.ly/3TsBr35

Congratulations to Princeton Associate Professor of Economics Ernest Liu on receiving the 2025 Jensen Prize from the "Journal of Financial Economics" for “Data Sales and Data Dilution,” co-authored with Song Ma and @laura-veldkamp.bsky.social. Read more: https://bit.ly/4fAsKwe

Summer reads: Explore five books on money, inequality, taxation, trade and economic power, including works by Princeton Professor @omzidar.bsky.social and graduate student @bhgreeley.bsky.social. Read this summer, then join us this fall for conversations with the authors. https://bit.ly/4b9qN7o

A recent @economist.com article highlighted Princeton Professor Owen Zidar’s (@omzidar.bsky.social) new book, "The Everywhere Millionaire," which explores the overlooked world of America’s wealthy private business owners and their impact on the economy. Read: https://econ.st/449wRce

American capitalism is run by millionaires, not billionaires

They hide in plain sight--and wield enormous power

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This spring, Princeton’s Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance and the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies co-hosted a symposium in D.C. exploring how development finance and industrial policy can create sustainable economic growth. https://bit.ly/4xOjATS

Prof. Cecilia Rouse and Assistant Prof. Pauline Carry recently joined a panel on the legacy and future of women in labor economics, exploring how research agendas take shape and the importance of addressing the historical exclusion of women from research questions. Read more: https://bit.ly/4u9iBLX

Congratulations to Zachary Bleemer, assistant professor of economics, and Karthik Sastry, assistant professor of economics and public affairs, recipients of two of this year's @Princeton preceptorships. Read more: https://bit.ly/49CL9Fy

All their hard work and dedication has paid off! Congratulations to our Ph.D. graduates on this incredible achievement.

Just a few of the many special moments celebrating our Class of 2026 grads on Class Day! Read more: https://bit.ly/3Qg8hTD

“You can do it [cut pay]... without having a disastrous effect on the morale of the employees if it's clear that the pay cut will save a lot of jobs," said Truman Bewley on the latest episode of "The Work Goes On" with Orley Ashenfelter. Listen: https://bit.ly/49b8wpu

Watch as Atif Mian, the John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Public Policy, and Finance at Princeton University, defines the economic and institutional significance of peace and the protection of rights on the CERPakistan podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=difo...

Pakistan's Peace Pivot and the Economics of Ending the Iran War: Conversation with Atif Mian

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The Macro Finance Society has named Markus Brunnermeier, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics at Princeton, a distinguished fellow. Congratulations! Read more: https://bit.ly/4de5VMz

Economist Andrew Zimbalist joins Princeton's Orley Ashenfelter to discuss the business of baseball, the UFC's monopsony power over fighters, and the future of college athletics. Tune in here: https://bit.ly/4drMT6A

Professor Jianqing Fan, the Frederick L. Moore ’18 Professor of Finance at Princeton, is among the 120 new members elected this year to the National Academy of Sciences (@nasonline.org). Congratulations to Fan on this well-deserved honor! Learn more: https://bit.ly/48zEefG

Congratulations to Professors Mark Aguiar and @atifrmian.bsky.social on their election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Aguiar and Mian are two of seven Princeton University professors elected to the Academy this year. Read more: https://bit.ly/4cImsb9

"The Work Goes On" podcast with Orley Ashenfelter recently released its 50th episode! Ashenfelter began the podcast in 2022 to create an oral history of labor economics and industrial relations by interviewing the field's most impactful scholars. https://bit.ly/4cpBR1l

“Once you start trying to put numbers on the gains from allowing people to move are just enormous. Or to put it another way, the costs of immigration restrictions are extremely high.” John Kennan joined Orley Ashenfelter on "The Work Goes On." Listen: https://bit.ly/3Qz9gxY

New research from Caio Almeida and co-author Gustavo Freire shows that net demand in the S&P 500 option market is fundamental to explain empirical puzzles related to the pricing kernel and its shape. Read the paper: https://bit.ly/4m6ReyS

Celebrate 50 episodes of "The Work Goes On" podcast with Orley Ashenfelter with @Princeton's Industrial Relations Section as we look back on fan-favorite episodes and most-listened-to moments. Read the article: https://bit.ly/47Pe34q

Listen to Ellora Derenoncourt, Assistant Professor of Economics and Founding Director of Princeton's Program for Research on Inequality, discuss the US racial wealth gap on a recent episode of Social Science Bites (@sagepub.com). https://bit.ly/4cdU1Sq

Ellora Derenoncourt on the US Racial Wealth Gap - Social Science Space

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Recognizing him as one of the most promising Ph.D. candidates graduating this year with a focus in financial economics, Nicolas Hommel (@nhommel.bsky.social) is awarded the 2026 Top Finance Graduate Award by HEC Paris. Congratulations! Read more: https://bit.ly/4mfMUgE

Mira Frick, Professor of Economics, delivered the 2026 Spring Department-Wide Seminar on her recent paper, "Auctions as Experiments" (with Ryota Iijima, Yuhta Ishii, and Nicholas Wu). Read the paper: https://bit.ly/48cjQ3W

“…Black Americans hold, on average, about 17 cents for every dollar of white wealth.” Ellora Derenoncourt of Princeton University discusses the racial wealth gap in the United States on a new episode of the Social Science Bites podcast. Listen now: www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/04/ello...

The 50th episode of "The Work Goes On" with Orley Ashenfelter has aired featuring V. Joseph Hotz. "There's a real problem of protecting people's confidentiality… We're still very much in an early stage in that process, but we're making some progress." https://bit.ly/41e5KLC

New research from Pascaline Dupas and co-authors in American Economic Review: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars." This paper "assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research." Read the paper: https://bit.ly/4c8NPuY

Philipp Strack, the Cowles Foundation Professor of Economics at @yale.edu, delivered the annual Uwe Reinhardt Distinguished Lecture on his paper, “Non-Discriminatory Personalized Pricing.” Learn more about price discrimination and his lecture here: https://bit.ly/47EZgsS

Stanford's Steven Davis delivered the 2026 Simpson Lecture, speaking to the Economics Department on "The Big Shift in Working Arrangements." Watch the full lecture: https://bit.ly/3O8Oftc

“Why it is that men and women have different wages via the human capital model? The explanation I gave is division of labor in the home...why is there division of labor in the home in the first place?” Solomon Polachek on episode 49 of "The Work Goes On:" https://bit.ly/3NWP4oS