Professor Mankiw, former
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, is currently Professor of
Economics at Harvard University. His research includes work on price
adjustment, consumer behavior, financial markets, monetary and fiscal
policy and economic growth. His #1 selling book, Principles of Economics, is now in its 6th Edition.
John B. Taylor is a world-renowned economist known for his research on the foundations of modern monetary theory and policy and his experience in international economics. He currently teaches at Standford University and has an active interest in public policy and has served at various senior levels in government. The author of Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis, his current research focuses on the causes and effects of the current financial crisis, the impact of monetary policy rules, econometric techniques for evaluating policy, and international financial institutions.
Michael Salemi has been a member of the faculty at UNC since 1976. He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of Minnesota and wrote his dissertation on the German hyperinflation of 1920-23 under the direction of Thomas J. Sargent. His research interests are domestic and international monetary theory and macroeconomics. His most recent research projects include a policy evaluation of U.S. monetary policy. He has a long standing interest in economic education. He was Assistant Director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of Minnesota between 1973 and 1976. He directed the Teacher Training Workshop Project that was jointly sponsored by the American Economic Association (AEA) and the National Council on Economic Education. Between 1994 and 2000, he was chair of the AEA Committee on Economic Education.
William
A. McEachern earned his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia and began
teaching
large sections of economic principles when he joined the University of
Connecticut in 1973, and in 1980, he started offering teaching workshops
around the country. The University of Connecticut Alumni Association
conferred on him its Faculty Excellence in Teaching
Award in 2000. He earlier won the Association's award for Distinguished
Public Service. He is founding editor of The Teaching Economist, a
newsletter that focuses on teaching economics at the college level. He
is the author of the widely used principles of
economics text, Economics: A Contemporary Approach, now in its 9th edition.
