New social research on economics job market conducted by Alice Wu highlights the issue that women are underrepresented in top economics departments and those who manage to hold a top position in the economic realm are frequently exposed to unfair criticism and reproaches.
Christian Wulff will be stripped off his immunity because of allegations of financial impropriety. The initiative was brought up by the public prosecutor, who suspects president Wullf of illegal income and suspicious relations with some figures. Wulff repeatedly took advantage of his position.
Behavioral economics seems to be on everyone’s lips. So what is behavioral economics and what are the reasons for its increasing popularity? The term has been introduced by Richard Thaler, an American economist, and means “economics done with strong injections of good psychology”.