USC Dornsife News

The USC Dornsife professor explains how market capitalism will help us adapt to the growing challenges unleashed by a warming planet. [5¼ min read]

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, newly arrived faculty jump right into teaching and research. [3½ min read]

Incoming social sciences scholars will join the economics, sociology, psychology, linguistics and anthropology departments. [8 min read]

Robert Tanaka, a mathematics and economics major at USC Dornsife, has learned to deal with visual impairment caused by his albinism to qualify for the 2021 Paralympic Games in judo. [5¼ min read]

Undergraduate Emma Cockerell and economics professor Jeffrey Dubin turned their collaboration analyzing the benefits and disadvantages of paying taxes every other year into a research paper featured on NPR. [3¾ min read]

Economist Patrick Turley of USC Dornsife and a multinational group of researchers issue a special report that examines the benefits, risks and ethics of selecting embryos to ensure healthier, smarter children. [5 min read]

With Americans having saved an extra $1.7 trillion during the pandemic, the economy is about to get a jolt of consumer spending. But big questions remain about how the spending spree will alter our economy. [8¼ min read]

USC Dornsife alumnus Chris Macke argues for a new, less politically divisive approach to solving economic issues using his signature philosophy. [5 min read]

Data collected about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. residents shows that 80% experienced some sort of hardship and that those hardships are not equally distributed across groups. [5 min read]