Welcome to MInes Economics & Business
Our mission is to produce graduates and scholarship of international distinction. We emphasize applied work devoted to industry decision making and public policy, especially as they relate to minerals and materials, energy, the environment, and technology. Taking advantage of the strong mathematical and quantitative skills of Mines students, our degree programs emphasize quantitative methods. As a multidisciplinary department, we focus on fields within economics and business tha complement one another - that is, microeconomics, the management sciences (including operations research), and finance.
We would be pleased to talk to you about our academic programs or research.
Rod Eggert
Professor and Division Director
Academic Programs
- B.S. in Economics
- M.S. in Engineering and Technology Management
- M.S. and PhD in Mineral and Energy Economics
- Dual Degree Program in Petroleum Economics and Management
News
The journal Interfaces recently published the 8th Rothkopf rankings of university contributions to the academic literature in applied operations research. Colorado School of Mines is first out of 45 U.S. universities in one measure of contributions (yield) and second in the other measure (visibility).
Rod Eggert, Dan Kaffine, and John Tilton recently learned that they have been awarded a $370,000 grant from the Alcoa Foundation for a two-year program of research on Recycling, Solid Waste and Public Policy. The research seeks to better understand the determinants of recycling in the United States. It will focus in particular on the strengths and weaknesses of various public policies influencing recycling of selected solid-waste streams, particularly containers (including but not limited to aluminum, steel, and plastics).
Graham Davis has been invited to participate in the design of a strategic industrial policy plan for Mongolia. The plan is being coordinated by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna.
Ed Balistreri’s paper with EB graduate student Chris Worley, “Mercury: The good, the bad, and the export ban,” appears in the December issue of the journal Resources Policy.
Mineral Economics degree title changed to Mineral and Energy Economics in Spring 2010.
The Division welcomes 20 new graduate students in spring 2010!
Dr. John Tilton, Research Professor in the Division of Economics and Business, and Jose Botin, Visiting Scholar, both attended the International Conference on Sustainable Mining in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Dr. Tilton gave a presentation on "Mineral Depletion: A Threat to Sustainable Mining?". Jose Botin gave a presentation on "Integrating Sustainability Down to the Operational Levels of a Mining Company".
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