James Brock
Bill R. Moeckel Professor of Business
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Michigan State, 1981
Brock is a student of antitrust economics, regulation, and public policy toward business. He is co-author of Antitrust Economics on Trial and Adam Smith Goes to Moscow and has published in many economic journals and law reviews including the Antitrust Bulletin and California Law Review.
Michael A. Curme
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Illinois, 1989
Curme is researching the importance of worker compensation structure and the economic effect of unions. He has published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Human Resources, and the Journal of Labor Economics.
George K. Davis
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Southern Methodist, 1984
Davis studies macroeconomics and economic growth. He has published in journals such as the International Economic Review and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and Oxford Economic Papers.
James A. Dunlevy
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Northwestern, 1974
Dunlevy's research interests include modeling the migration process and international trade and commercial policy. He has published in such journals as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Explorations in Economic History, and the Journal of Population Economics.
0. Homer Erekson
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980.
Erekson has research interests in the economics of education finance, economics of the public sector, and environmental economics. He has published in several journals including Econometrica, Southern Economic Journal, and Economics of Education Review.
William E. Even
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Iowa, 1984
Even is a labor economist that has done research on issues facing women in the labor force, the effects of minimum wage legislation, and the determinants and consequences of pension membership. He has published in several journals including the Journal of Labor Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Human Resources.
J. David Ferguson
Chair, Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Brown, 1974
Ferguson is a student of monetary theory and policy, macroeconomic theory, and economic simulation and forecasting. He has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Macroeconomics, and Oxford Economic Papers.
Gerald Granderson
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993
Granderson is interested in industrial organization, regulation, productivity, growth and efficiency. He has published in the Journal of Regulatory Economics, Applied Economics, Southern Economic Journal, and the European Journal of Operational Research.
Barnali Gupta
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Florida, 1990
Gupta is interested in microeconomic theory, industrial organization, game theory, and international trade. She had published in Regional Science and Urban Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Economic Education, and Economics Letters.
Thomas E. Hall
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. California at Santa Barbara, 1982
Hall is interested in macroeconomics and business cycles. He has published in several journals and is author of Business Cycles: The Nature and Causes of Economic Fluctuations, and co-author of The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies.
William R. Hart
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Washington University, 1976
Hart studies various issues in macroeconomic theory, monetary theory and policy, and economic education. He has published in several journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Inquiry and Southern Economic Journal.
William K Hutchinson
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Iowa, 1975
Hutchinson is interested in economic history, regional and international economics, as well as monetary theory and policy. He has published in several journals including Journal of Economic History, Research in Economic History, and Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
John S. Lyons
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. California at Berkeley, 1977
Lyons is an economic historian with research interests in technological change, industrial organization, and labor market structure during early industrialization in Europe, and in historical demography of "The West" in the past three centuries. He has published in Research in Economic History, Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Economics History.
Mark E. McBride
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Washington University, 1979
McBride is interested in industrial organization and regulation with emphasis on vertical market structures, production and cost theory, and in law and economics. His publications have appeared in several journals such as American Economic Review, Southern Economic Journal, Public Choice, and Rand Journal of Economics.
Mostafa Mehdizadeh
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Oklahoma, 1980
Mehdizadeh studies various issues in urban economics, economics of education, and development economics. He has published in Journal of Economic Education, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and Atlantic Economic Journal.
Gerald M. Miller
Assistant chair, Senior Instructor of Economics
MA. Brown, 1973
Miller is interested in the regulation of public utilities and in competition , innovation , and technology in the communications industry.
Norman C. Miller
Julian G. Lange Professor of Economics and American Enterprise
Ph.D. Pittsburgh, 1966
Miller is interested in international finance and macroeconomics. He is the author of a textbook, Macroeconomics (Houghton-Mifflin, 1983) and has published in journals such as American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Economic Journal, Economic Inquiry, and Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
Nicholas R. Noble
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Cincinnati, 1978
Noble is interested in macroeconomics, monetary theory and policy, and econometrics. He has authored several articles in journals such as Southern Economic journal, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and Journal of Monetary Economics.
Glenn Platt
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 1993
Platt is an urban and public economist whose research interests include local competition for industry, lotteries, and voting behavior. He has published articles in Journal of Urban Economics, Applied Economics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Prosper Raynold
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 1989
Raynold's primary interests are in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and financial economics. He has published articles in journals such as Journal of Economic Integration, Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Inquiry, and Southern Economic Journal.
Daniel A. Seiver
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Yale, 1974
Seiver has broad interests including the economics of population, development economics, financial economics, regional economics, and international finance. He is co-author of Regions and Resources: Strategies for Development and has published in journals such as Demography, International Economic Review, and Journal of Development Economics.
Dennis H. Sullivan
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Princeton, 1975
Sullivan has research interests in public finance, economics of poverty, and urban economics. He has published articles in several journals including National Tax journal, Journal of Urban Economics, and Economic Inquiry.
Melissa Thomasson
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. University of Arizona, 1998
Thomasson's most recent work deals with the demand for health insurance in the twentieth century. Her fields of specialization are applied microeconomics, health economics and policy, and economic history.
Samuel H. Williamson
Professor of Economics
Ph.D. Purdue, 1968
Williamson is the executive director of both the Cliometric Society and of EH.Net. His research interests are the economics of aging and various topics in economic history. He has published articles in journals including American Economic Review, Southern Economic Journal, and Journal of Economic History.