My primary teaching interests are macroeconomics, monetary policy, history of economic thought, and finance, all of which I teach here at Eastern Oregon. I am very excited at the prospects for our economics degree as a standalone on-campus and online degree and Economics courses required n the business degree core. My teaching philosophy centers around the notion that teaching requires engagement by the students and myself. I do what I can in the classroom and online to engage the students as much as possible so that economics is less something that exists in their textbook, but properly becomes the world around them. I also serve as Faculty Advisor to our chapter of the International Honor Society in Economics, Omicron Sigma Epsilon.
Margaret McConnell is associate professor of global health economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard Chan School. Her research combines behavioral economics with field and laboratory experiments to better understand and evaluate policies designed to change health behaviors and improve health outcomes for marginalized populations, with a specific focus on maternal and child health. She has served as PI or co-PI on more than five randomized control trials within both low-income populations in the U.S. and within low-income countries. McConnell is a former postdoctoral fellow in the Program on the Global Demography of Aging at HCPDS.
Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies is a textbook that is an integrated learning system for schoolchildren and students enrolled in economic specialties. It was first published in 1960 and, as of 2021, has released 22 editions. The authors of the modern textbook are American economics professors C. R. McConnell, S. L. Brue and S. M. Flynn.
The first edition of the book was published in 1960. Until the 10th edition, the author was Campbell R. McConnell, professor of economics at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and since the 11th edition, which was published in 1990, Stanley L. Brue, a professor of economics, has become a co-author.[1] Starting with the 18th edition, which was published in 2009, Professor of Economics Sean Masaki Flynn becomes the third co-author of the textbook.[2]
According to the publishing house Infra-M in the majority of Russian economic universities, the textbook is used in the educational process as a basic one, recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for university students studying in economic specialties. The textbook is devoted to the problems of economics: macro and microeconomics, national income, employment, credit, financial and tax policy, world economy and others.[2]
McConnell, Brue, and Flynn's Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies is the leading Principles of Economics textbook. It continues to be innovative while teaching students in a clear, unbiased way. Microeconomics, 18th Edition builds upon the tradition of leadership by sticking to 3 main goals: help the beginning student master the principles essential for understanding the economizing problem, specific economic issues, and the policy alternatives; help the student understand and apply the economic perspective and reason accurately and objectively about economic matters; and promote a lasting student interest in economics and the economy.
McConnell/Brue/Flynn has long set the standard for providing high-quality content to instructors and students alike. Known for versatility, comprehensiveness, and persistent innovation, it has remained one of the most trusted and reliable choices for principles of economics courses. The 21st edition continues to benefit from author Sean Flynn's influence with new discussions on strategic behavior, game theory, unconventional monetary policy and interest rate normalization. A robust set of content designed to facilitate classroom engagement through peer instruction has been developed to align with the learning objectives in the text. New innovations like interactive graphs and videos combine with SmartBook's adaptive reading experience and even more algorithmic and graphing assessment content in Connect to help students succeed in the course. McConnell/Brue/Flynn is expertly tailored to support a variety of course formats, institutions, and students. Its depth of content and breadth of resources continue to be unparalleled in the introductory market.
Sean is an assistant professor of economics at Scripps College in Claremont, California. He is the author of the international best seller "Economics for Dummies" as well as the coauthor, along with Campbell McConnell and Stanley Brue, of the world's best-selling college economics textbook, "Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies". An avid martial artist, Sean is a former Aikido national champion and has coached five of his students to U.S. national aikido titles. A recurring commentator on FOX Business, ABC News, and NPR, Sean holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley, where he completed his dissertation under the supervision of Nobel Laureate George Akerlof. Sean's research focuses on the often puzzling and seemingly irrational behavior of stock market investors, but he's also investigated topics as wide-ranging as the factors that affect customer tipping behavior at restaurants and why you see a lot of unionized workers only in certain industries.
Campbell R. McConnell earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa after receiving degrees from Cornell College and the University of Illinois. He taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1953 until his retirement in 1990. He is also coauthor of Contemporary Labor Economics, Seventh edition, and Essentials of Economics, First edition (both The McGraw-Hill Companies), and has edited readers for the principles and labor economics courses. He is a recipient of both the University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award and the James A. Lake Academic Freedom Award, and is past-president of the Midwest Economics Association. Professor McConnell was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Cornell College in 1973 and received its Distinguished Achievement Award in 1994.
In the 70s, I was a science major. I took an economics course to fulfill a general education requirement and fell in love with it. Soon thereafter, I changed majors and started taking business courses. By the end of my first marketing class, I knew it would be my career.
McConnell's research applies tools from economics to answer questions about how to improve health outcomes for marginalized populations, with a particular focus on behavioral economic theory, experimental methods and impact evaluation strategies. She has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator on more than five randomized control trials within both low-income populations in the U.S. and within low income countries. Her research has consistently focused on deepening our understanding of the choices and preferences of women during the critical periods of pregnancy, postpartum and early childhood in order to better tailor interventions to these specific contexts and constraints. She enjoys broad collaboration with social scientists, physicians and health services researchers.
Ms. Mullins received her B.A. in political science at the University of Louisville and studied international economics at American University in Washington, DC. She was born September 7, 1949, in Louisville, KY, and has one daughter.
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