Alumni updates – February 2025
Learn which alumni started new positions or earned recognitions this month.
Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
Learn which alumni started new positions or earned recognitions this month.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Menzie Chinn, 608-262-7397, mchinn@lafollette.wisc.edu MADISON, Wis., – Menzie Chinn, a well-known macroeconomist with the La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Economics at the University of Madison–Wisconsin, published a landmark new textbook last month to help college students make sense of the complex global economy and the geopolitics surrounding it. …
Menzie Chinn published a landmark new textbook last month to help college students make sense of the complex global economy and the geopolitics surrounding it.
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The La Follette School rang in the new year by embarking on a two-day trip to our nation's capital, Washington D.C.