Department of Macro, International and Labour Economics (MILE)
The Department Macro, International and Labour Economics has an international reputation for excellent teaching and research. Our department members are specialists in the fields of Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Labour Economics, Education, International Economics, Innovation and Growth, and Economic Policy.
Fast facts
- 30 full time faculty and 25 PhD students
- excellence in research and education
- education in three undergraduate programmes
- education in seven graduate programmes
About us
Fields: Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, International Economics, Education Economics
Section head: Bart Golsteyn
Secretaries: Silvana de Sanctis, Marion Muitjens
Management: Joyce Gruijthuijsen
Contact
Secretarial office MILE:
Room A0.03
Phone: +31 43 38-83620
Mailing address:
Department of Economics
P.O.Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
In the spotlight
Branko Milanovic: Public Lecture and Masterclass
Branko Milanovic: Public Lecture and Masterclass
"Branko Milanovic will visit SBE/MILE on May 24th (2024) to give a public lecture on his latest book, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard University Press). In this Financial Times Best Book of the Year Milanovic investigates the views of critical thinkers like Smith, Pareto, Marx, and David Recardo on key inequality issues, placed in the appropriate historical context.
The public lecture will be preceded by a Masterclass where four invited students from a wide range of academic advancement, will present their inequality related work and interact with our guest, and a wider audience."
Please click here to register for this lecture:
https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/visions-inequality-french-revolution-end-cold-war
LSE blog: Challenging our understanding of global poverty.
Challenging our understanding of global poverty.
In this LSE blog posting Jason Hickel (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Dylan Sullivan (Macquarie University) and our own Michalis Moatsos (MILE/SBE) show that data presents a more complex – and more troubling – story of poverty than existing narratives would suggest. This is possible taking stock from recent research by the authors, based on findings by the OECD "How was Life" publication.
More info here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2024/04/30/new-research-on-global-poverty/