Scripps College Economics Society

Last Wednesday, February 15th, we hosted our first Scripps Tea ever, promoting our Kiva micro-lending portfolio project. We would like to thank everybody who came to support us, and for your kind donations. Scripps Tea was a big success, and we raised over $75 in donations. The money we raised will be donated to women [...]

Exciting update of our Kiva project; so far we have made 22 loans to support projects around the world. Our portfolio now stands at  $546.20 of loans and the Society has hopes to keep increasing this throughout the semester. The donations that have been made have gone to support various individuals around the world, including countries such [...]

Thanks to donations made by outside lenders to the SCES Micro-Lending Portfolio Project, our team has been able to provide 13 loans of $25 each to support projects around the world.  The portfolio now stands at $325 of loans and the Society has hopes to increase this next semester with an aggressive outreach project.  Statistics [...]

SCES is proud to introduce our first fundraising and charity project in the Fall of 2011. The Scripps College Economics Society (SCES) is teaming up with Kiva to invest in entrepreneurs in the developing world and needs your support! This project seeks to use our economics training to help alleviate global poverty. Moreover, through this [...]

SCES Fall Dinner with CGU Professor Cecilia Rios-Aguilar Tuesday, November 29th at 6pm RSVP by Wednesday, November 16th Hampton Room Business-casual attire encouraged Our semi-annual tradition and the Economics Society’s most important event of the semester has arrived.  Just after Thanksgiving Break join us in the Scripps Hampton Room (above Malott) for a dinner and [...]

Sylvia Nasar, best-selling author, journalist, and economist will present her newest book, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius as part of our Alexa Fullerton Hampton Voice and Vision speaker series. Nasar is best known for her biography of economist John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, written in 1994.   She will be visiting Scripps to present [...]

The Scripps College Economics Society aims to create and sustain a dialogue about economics and current events outside the classroom.   This is why we have included a blog section as part of our website.  We are looking for students from all the Claremont Colleges to submit articles for the blog.  These may be short or [...]

To all incoming Scripps students and the Claremont Colleges Class of 2015, Welcome to campus!  You are in high demand among the various economic departments and student organizations and we are here to supply the perfect academic and social outlet for you at Scripps College.  The Scripps College Economics Society would like to offer you [...]

The new and improved Econ Society website is up and running!  Here you will find a calendar our of events (which allows you to add the event to your own electronic calendar), SCES announcements, information on Scripps Economics, a blog, an RSVP form and contact information.  Take a look around, see what this website can [...]