Mila Skulkina, class of 2001 has lived a storied life. In this profile she shares her UCLA story and how lessons learned on campus have impacted her career. When Mila was a teenager in the 1990s, she and her father emigrated to the United States from Moscow. She had a rudimentary knowledge of the English […]
by Guido Tabellini I first learnt about Axel when I was an undergraduate student in Italy in the late 1970s. His strange surname was easy to remember, but there were much deeper reasons to pay attention to him than just his surname. These were the times of the debate between Monetarists and Keynesians, and Axel’s […]
By David K. Levine Axel Leijonhufvud was a gentleman and a scholar. As an undergraduate at UCLA my first class in macroeconomics was from Axel and I later had the pleasure of knowing him as a colleague and a friend.Axel well understood that what we do as economists is less to create ideas than to […]
The UCLA Department of Economics is sad to announce that Axel Leijonhufvud (1933-2022) passed away on May 2nd 2022. Axel was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and obtained his bachelor degree at the University of Lund. After coming to the United States in 1960, he earned an M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. […]
Rosa Matzkin, Charles E. Davidson Professor of Economics, has been elected a 2022 National Academy of Sciences member. The National Academy of Sciences, established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln, acts as an official advisory body to the federal government on matters of science and technology upon request. The academy is […]
The bill below comes from the short lived Terek Soviet Republic, which existed for less than a year in the Northern Caucasus. The republic’s Minister of Labor was none other than Jacob Marschak, appointed at the ripe old age of 19. Marschak’s final appointment was at UCLA.
Donald Edward Bragg & Diane Sims Bragg Scholarship Recipient Biography: Aarushi Gupta is a third-year majoring in Business Economics and currently minoring in Statistics and Entrepreneurship. At UCLA, she serves as External Vice President of 180 Degrees Consulting, the world’s largest volunteer consultancy for nonprofits and social enterprises, and Co-President & Account Supervisor of the […]
Donald Lipshutz Scholarship Recipient Biography: Genevieve Trimbell is a second-year student from Seattle, WA majoring in business economics. She discovered her passion for economics in her AP Economics class in high school and never looked back. She loves gymnastics and currently participates in UCLA’s club gymnastics program as well as coaches for Bruin Gymnastics Academy. […]
Venu and Ana Kotamraju Endowed Scholarship Recipient Biography: Daibik Chakraborty is a junior at UCLA hailing from the greater Los Angeles area. Double majoring in Public Affairs and Economics, he has grounded his academic curriculum with an emphasis on data and research to build upon skills that will help him to make informed decisions in […]
Patricia and Harry L. Bruce Endowed Scholarship Recipient Biography: Kristen Chan is a third year Business Economics major with a minor in Accounting and Digital Humanities. Growing up in the Bay Area, Kristen has always been passionate about startup culture. At UCLA, she is involved in both the consulting and accounting community, serving as the […]
