Sluggish consumer spending has been a prime job-killer in Arizona during what’s come to be known as the Great Recession, according to economist Dennis Hoffman, director of the L. William Seidman Research Institute.

JDA Software President and CEO Hamish Brewer presented a primer on supply chain management and discussed the technology-driven improvements that will alter the way business decisions are made and executed at the Economic Club of Phoenix Luncheon on Jan. 11, 2012.

Economics Professor Daniel Silverman and four co-authors used “naturally-occurring data” — data gathered about behavior as it happens rather than from a survey or an experiment — to explore a mysterious discrepancy between economic theory and reality.

Arizona has been a champion of job creation in the past, but right now the state is doing just OK, says Economist Dennis Hoffman, director of the L. William Seidman Research Institute at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

What if the Colorado River water delivered to users throughout the west dried up for a year? National Geographic reported on a study of this hypothetical question by L. William Seidman Research Institute economists Timothy James and Anthony Evans.

Mildred L. Culp, a Scripps Media syndicated columnist, talked to economist Lee McPheters for a story about job creation that ran in the Knoxville News Sentinel, among many other papers.

Several long-term trends will determine America’s economic future, according to John Lonski, managing director and chief financial markets economist of Moody’s Analytics. Careful monitoring and interpretation of those trends for the period of 2010-2013 earned him the 2014 Lawrence R.

Forbes Magazine named Washington, D.C. as the “coolest” city in the nation. Boston, pictured here, came in at No. 10. But what makes some cities cool and others not? Dennis Hoffman, economist and director of the L. William Seidman Research Institute, offers an explanation.

Yahoo! Finance quoted Economics Professor Marjorie Baldwin in a story about the rise in workers’ compensation benefits in 2012. Baldwin is chair of Academy's Workers' Compensation Data Panel, part of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

During the W. P. Carey School's annual Economic Oulook Luncheon, guests have an opportunity to test their personal economic knowledge. How confident are you that you understand background facts on economic issues? Try this short quiz to find out if you are an honors student.