Glenn Hubbard policymaker, professor, and researcher.
R.Glenn Hubbard is the Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and Professor of Economics in Columbia’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a director of Automatic Data Processing, Black Rock Closed-End Funds, Dex Media, Duke Realty, KKR Financial Corporation, and Ripplewood Holdings. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1983. From 2001–2003, he served as Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and from 1991–1993, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. Glenn Hubbard’s fields of specialization are public economics, financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, macroeconomics, industrial organization, and public policy. He is the author of more than 90 articles in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and numerous private foundations.
Tony O’Brien award-winning professor and researcher.
Anthony Patrick O’Brien is a professor of economics at Lehigh University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. He has taught principles of economics for more than 15 years, in both large sections and small honors classes. He received the Lehigh University Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was formerly the director of the Diamond Center for Economic Education and was named a Dana Foundation Faculty Fellow and Lehigh Class of 1961 Professor of Economics. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. Anthony O’Brien’s research has dealt with such issues as the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry, the sources of U.S. economic competitiveness, the development of U.S. trade policy, the causes of the Great Depression, and the causes of black–white income differences. His research has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Industrial Relations, and the Journal of Economic History. His research has been supported by grants from government agencies and private foundations. In addition to teaching and writing, Anthony O’Brien also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Socio-economics.
Introduction | |
Economics | |
Tradeoffs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System | |
Where Prices Come From: The Interaction of Demand & Supply | |
Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes Appendix: Quantitative Demand and Supply Analysis | |
Markets in Action | |
Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods | |
Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply | |
Firms in the Domestic & International Economies | |
Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance Appendix: Tools to Analyze Firms' Financial Information | |
Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade Appendix: Multinational Firms | |
Microeconomic Foundations: Consumers and Firms | |
Consumer Choice & Behavioral Economics Appendix: Indifference Curves | |
Production, Technology, and Costs Appendix: Isoquants and Isocosts | |
Market Structure and Firm Strategy | |
Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets | |
Monopolistic Competition: The Competitive Model in a More Realistic Setting | |
Oligopoly: Firms in Less Competitive, Markets | |
Monopoly and Antitrust Policy | |
Pricing Strategy | |
Markets for Factors of Production | |
The Markets for Labor and Other Factors of Production | |
Information, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income | |
The Economics of Information | |
Public Choice, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income | |
Macroeconomic Foundations and Long-Run Growth | |
GDP: Measuring Total Production and Income | |
Unemployment & Inflation | |
Economic Growth, the Financial System, and Business Cycles | |
Long-Run Growth: Sources & Policies | |
Short-Run Fluctuations | |
Output & Expenditure in the Short Run Appendix: The Algebra of Macroeconomic Equilibrium | |
AD/AS Analysis Appendix: Macroeconomic Schools of Thought | |
Monetary and Fiscal Policy | |
Money, Banks, and the Federal Reserve System | |
Monetary Policy | |
Fiscal Policy Appendix: A Closer Look at the Multiplier | |
Inflation,Unemployment, & Federal Reserve Policy | |
The International Economy | |
Macroeconomics in an Open Economy | |
The International Financial System | |
Appendix: The Gold Standard and the Bretton Woods System | |
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