A recent survey of economists and the literature they've produced over the last several years brought good news to Evanston. The carefully ranked review looked at the contributions of certain "economics communities" (which were measured by academic papers in economics contributed by the economics department, by economics-oriented business school faculty and by economists in university research centers). The happy results are as follows:

Top one Dozen Economics Communities
1. Harvard
2. U of Chicago
3. MIT
4. Northwestern
5. U of Penn
6. Yale
7. Princeton
8. Stanford
9. UC Berkeley
10. NYU
11. Columbia
12. UCSD - University of California (San Diego)

Congratulations are due to all of NU's economists and its strong cadre of those interested in healthcare economics!