School of Economics

SOE Cooperating Faculty Member Jessica Leahy and Graduate Student Zach Davis will be presenting at the annual meeting of the Piscataquis County Cooperation Extension Association on January 11th.  Professor Leahy (School of Forest Resources) and Zach Davis will be sharing results and insights from the Rural Youth Futures Project. This multi-state and multi-institutional project is […]

School of Economics (SOE) and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Faculty-Member Phil Trostel spoke with WGME about the COVID-19 relief package as it was developing in late December. Professor Trostel and numerous other SOE faculty continue to provide valuable insights and research as Maine and the nation wrestle with complex and multi-faceted challenges posed by […]

SOE Assistant Professor Andrew Crawley and graduate student Katie Klinko presented their regional economic development research to new legislators and other officials at the UMaine/UMM Virtual Legislative Update Breakfast held on Monday December 14th. They shared highlights from multiple analyses of the pandemic’s impacts on Maine’s economy conducted by Crawley’s Maine Regional Economic Modeling Lab. […]

SOE Faculty Jonathan Rubin and Kathleen Bell and cooperating faculty member Adam Daigneault provided research support to the Maine Climate Council as they developed a plan for climate action. Drs. Rubin, Bell, and Daigneault all collaborated with colleagues from across the state to inform the development of Maine’s 4-year Climate Action Plan. Dr. Rubin served […]

Mark Anderson (emeritus faculty-member) and Caroline Noblet (SOE Associate Professor) published a commentary article focused on Maine’s authentic approach to policy-making. Their article, We are Maine – Is there an Authentic Maine Public Policy?, appears in the  Maine Policy Review‘s special issue celebrating Maine’s bicentennial. Anderson and Noblet identify several features that distinguish Maine’s approach […]

SOE Graduate Student Joey Reed is studying resilience in rural communities. His work in the Katahdin region of Maine, done in collaboration with SOE Cooperating Faculty Member Adam Daigneault of the School of Forest Resources and others, was recently profiled by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Joey double-majored in Economics and […]

Jonathan Rubin, SOE Professor and Director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, contributed to a recently issued report outlining America’s Zero Carbon Action Plan (ZCAP). Prepared as part of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project, ZCAP outlines a framework for decarbonizing six key US sectors, including power, transport, industry, […]