St. Catherine University
2023-2024
- Economics of Social Issues
- Macroeconomic Policy
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
2022-2023
- Economics of Social Issues
- International Economics: Trade and Immigration
- Methods and Modeling for Economics, Finance and Analytics
2021-2022
- On Sabbatical
2020-2021
- Economics of Social Issues
- International Economics: Trade and Immigration
- From Theory to Action (Senior Seminar)
2019-2020
- Economics of Social Issues
- Topics in Healthcare Economics
- Macroeconomic Policy
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
Taught previously:
- The Reflective Woman
- Global Search for Justice: Women and Work in the Middle East
- Statistical Analysis for Decision-Making
- Principles of Macroeconomics
- Principles of Microeconomics
Open source textbook:
Economics for the Greater Good: An Introduction to Economic Thinking for Public Policy teaches the central concepts of economics through applications to global challenges and domestic public policy issues. Chapters tackle issues of hunger, homelessness, rent control, minimum wages, globalization and trade, crime, discrimination, poverty and anti-poverty programs, education, pollution, health care, social safety nets, and government spending. Both microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts are introduced, including production, markets, supply and demand, price controls, models of trade and trade restrictions, cost-benefit analysis, budget constraints, public goods, externalities, taxes and subsidies, and government budgets and debt. Each chapter presents evidence on a pressing social problem, introduces an economic model to help understand that problem, and discusses evidence on what programs and policies work to alleviate global challenges.
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