Stone Chair in Economics

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Description The Economics Department at Tulane University, along with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, invites nominations and applications for the Samuel Z. Stone Chair in Economics beginning August 2026. The Department of Economics, which resides within the School of Liberal Arts, is known for its work on applied policy analysis of critical public policy issues, with major fields in development/poverty, education/labor, health, and public expenditure and taxation. The department has longstanding partnership with the university’s large interdisciplinary Latin Americanist community. The renowned Stone Center for Latin American Studies is the core of this collaboration and has one of the largest Latin American libraries in the country. Fostering both academic and economic enhancement, the Stone Chair will build on the university’s strength in Latin American studies and contribute to the state’s efforts to deepen economic ties between Louisiana and Latin American countries through new research on the dynamics of Latin American economies and the preparation of new generations of specialists on the region. In addition, the chair will provide senior leadership in the Economi...