The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fined Stanford economics lecturer Alex Gould J.D. ’00 more than $700,000 after he allegedly misappropriated funds from a venture capital fund that he ...

Economist Dr. Raj Chetty spoke at this year's Wellington Burham Lecture about equality of opportunity in America at 51 Winthrop St. on Oct. 15. The lecture, titled "Improving Equality of Opportunity ...

Since arriving at Stanford, Lernik Asserian has taught an impressive range of math classes: MATH 18, 19, 20, 51, 52, 53, 56, ...

Guido W. Imbens, center, with his wife, Susan Athey, and three children. Guido Imbens was awarded the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Photo by Bjorn Carey/Stanford News Service.

Two Bay Area professors were jolted awake early Monday morning by phone calls from Sweden announcing perhaps the greatest professional achievement of their lives: a Nobel prize. One of them, however, ...

A Stanford University visiting professor was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday, Oct. 15, for his work on market design. Alvin Roth, a professor of economics and business administration at ...