Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

The Tennessean: Bartering stretches Tennesseans' cash Middle Tennesseans with skills or goods are surfing Craigslist, eBay and a variety of other sites looking to trade their products and services instead of using cash to purchase them. Jeremy Atack, professor of economics, is quoted.

National Public Radio interviewed John Vrooman, senior lecturer in economics, on the New York Jets’ auction of personal seat licenses and how the economic downturn would affect sales. The story is available online here.

BusinessWeek: Muhammad Yunus on the financial crisis Nobel laureate and Vanderbilt alum Muhammad Yunus discusses the current financial crisis and how his insight is influenced by his experience in extending tiny loans to the very poor.

The Tennessean : Property tax increases hit suburbs Booming growth in Nashville’s suburbs has pushed lawmakers to increase property taxes to support the growing population. Malcolm Getz, associate professor of economics, is quoted.

The Tennessean: As domestic markets sink, companies soar overseas In Tennessee, exports were up 10 percent during the first half of the year, tracking an overall increase in exports from the U.S. Eric Bond, Joe Roby Professor of Economics, is quoted.

Wiley-Blackwell celebrates the Journal of Public Economic Theory’s 10th Anniversary! For the past decade, JPET has been dedicated to stimulating research in the rapidly growing field of public economics. The journal has been selected for coverage in Thomson Scientific’s ISI Citation Index, beginning with Volume 9, Issue 1, 2007. To read a sample issue online, please click here.

The Tennessean: Fleeing teams create a dent in city's image In the past few years, Nashville and the surrounding area also have lost two professional golf tournaments, the Arena Football League twice, and an American Basketball Association team—although the ABA is scheduled to return this fall. John Vrooman, senior lecturer in economics, is quoted.

Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Nashville: Gas crisis from 1970s has lessons for today Although the economy is not doing as poorly as it was in 1973, the high price of gas and memories of rationing provide insight into current problems. Jeremy Atack, professor of economics, is quoted.

Chattanooga Times-Free Press: $4 gas will pinch rural America most Rural Americans in the South will bear the brunt of rising gas prices, economists say. Malcolm Getz, associate professor of economics, is quoted.

Nobel Prize winner outlines plan for ending poverty A new book by Muhammad Yunus, a Vanderbilt alumnus who won the Nobel Peace Prize for a bank he founded in Bangladesh that specializes in making microloans to the very poor, is previewed.

Globe and Mail (Toronto): NFL owners decide they 'can't live with' collective agreementWhen the NFL agreed to a new collective labor agreement with its players in the spring of 2006, many owners of both big-market and small-market clubs grumbled about the deal, albeit for different reasons. John Vrooman, senior lecturer in economics, is quoted.

The Tennessean: A better course is to cut summer travel Malcolm Getz, associate professor of economics, wrote this opinion piece about the futility of a “gas tax holiday” being proposed by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

The Tennessean: Consumer growth, biofuels are factors Kathryn Anderson, professor of economics, wrote this opinion piece explaining recent food price inflation.

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