Joel Mokyr

Professor Joel Mokyr named a 2021 Citation Laureate™

Professor Joel Mokyr, of the Department of Economics, was named a 2021 Citation Laureate™, for his studies of the history and culture of technological progress and its economic consequences. Each year since 2002, analysts from the Institute for Scientific Information™ have...

Arts & Humanities / Faculty / Society & Policy

Center for Economic History receives $2.5 million grant from Menard family

Northwestern University’s Center for Economic History in the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences has received a $2.5 million grant from the Menard family. The grant will fund a faculty position for an economic historian, who will serve as...