Teaching

Current Courses

Current Courses are Econ 201 and BUSA 601. Those materials are available at BSU's Canvas page.

Teaching Experience

• • Introduction to Macroeconomics:

    •  traditional and online

  • Introduction to Microeconomics:

  • traditional and online

  • Intermediate Microeconomics

  • Public Finance

  • Econometrics

  • Graduate Microeconomics

  • International Economics

  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy

  • Economic History

• International Financial Management: undergraduate/graduate

• Environmental Economics: undergraduate/graduate

• Labor Institutions: undergraduate/graduate

• Game Theory and Experimental Economics

• Money, Credit, and Banking

• Economics of Public Issues

• Economics and Business of Sports

• Research Methods

Teaching something you love is such a privilege. I fundamentally can't believe I get to do it.  I'm honored to teach economics at Ball State.

But even better than standing in front of a classroom is the close relationships I get to make with the students who really want to learn economics.

• Reading Groups

• Coauthoring

• Menard Research Scholars

• Twice yearly Colloquiua

• Menard Political Economy Speakers Series including the Madam CJ Walker Distinguished Colloquium

More Info

“Enhancing Pluralism in the Undergraduate Economics Curriculum by Incorporating a Political Economy Approach” with Cantrell. International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education. 8:3, 273–285 (2017). 

“Public Choice Lessons from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter” with Podemska-Mikluch and Deyo. Journal of Private Enterprise. 31:1, 57–69 (2016). 

“An International Comparison of School to Work Transition Systems: How Best to Evaluate Outcomes” with Sharland and Menon. International Journal of Society Systems Science. 5:2, 99–112 (2013). 

“A Futures Trading Experiment: An Active Classroom Approach to Learning” with Hunsader and Parker (student). Journal of Economics and Finance Education. 10:1, 10–27 (2011). 

“A Classroom Experiment on Exchange Rate Determination with Purchasing Power Parity” with Rebelein, Schneider, Simpson, and Fisher. Journal of Economic Education 40:2, 150–165 (2009). 

Non-Peer Reviewed

“Comparative Advantage and Trade with the Undead” with Deyo. In Economics of the Undead: Blood, Brains, & Benjamins (Whitman, Glen and James Dow eds.) Rowman-Littlefield. Pp. 111–122 (2014). 

“Donut and Dimed: Labor Markets in the Simpsons.” In Economics of the Simpsons. Josh Hall (ed.) Stanford University Press. Pp. 116–126 (2014). Translated into Italian (2017). 

Study Guide for Principles of Modern Macroeconomics, by Cowen and Tabarrok. Worth Publishers. (2010).