2017 Fall Enrollment Numbers

Sep 14, 2017

tags : TTU Features, Academics, Achievements, Enrollment, Feature Stories, General, Provost, Research, Vice President for Research

School of Theatre and Dance presents "Belleville"

Sep 13, 2017

The play is the first production in the 2017-18 Lab Theatre season.

tags : Academics, Events, Provost, Stories

Price Gouging Technocratic Cranks

Sep 13, 2017

Economic Policy Journal - In The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin provides a pretty decent explanation for why economists cheer on "price gouging" during disasters:[S]everal respected economists from the Milton Friedman school of free-market theory take it seriously. They contend that anti-gouging measures, by effectively enacting price controls during emergencies, remove the incentive for consumers to conserve essential supplies. They also say that the incentive for suppliers to bring goods to dangerous areas - or keep extra stock on-hand before disasters - becomes distorted in ways that hurt people..."

tags : Texas Tech in the News

Professor Appointed to White House Council of Economic Advisers

Sep 13, 2017

Timothy Fitzgerald is an associate professor in the Rawls College of Business.

tags : Academics, Faculty, Provost, Rawls College of Business Administration, Research, Stories, Vice President for Research