ECON 1014 – Principles of Microeconomics: Critical Perspectives
ECON 1024 – Principles of Macroeconomics: Critical Perspectives
ECON 3023 –Intermediate Macroeconomics
ECON 4023 – Advanced Macroeconomics
Open access learning
ECON 1014 – Principles of Microeconomics: Critical Perspectives
ECON 1023 – Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 3023 – Intermediate Macroeconomics
Supervision
Jafar Khalil El Armali, “Different Tests of Different Concepts of Hysteresis” 2016
Si Liu, "Testing the Relationship Between Provincial Government Debt and Growth” 2015
Books
The Economics Anti-Texbook: Simplified Chinese Edition, 2011 (with Rod Hill), pages 1-365, Shiwenbooks, China
The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics, 2010 (with Rod Hill), Zed Books (World-wide rights), Fernwood Publishing (Canadian rights), pages 1-305
Macroeconomics: Canadian Edition, 2007 (with Paul Krugman and Robin Wells) Worth Press, pages 1-536
Microeconomics: Canadian Edition, 2006 (with Paul Krugman and Robin Wells) Worth Press, pages 1-564
Publications
“The Relationship Between Debt and Growth: An Application to the Canadian Provinces”, with Lui Si, Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Volume 38, no. 3, December 2015.
“Is Freshwater Skepticism on Fiscal Multipliers Rooted in Theory?”, with Brian MacLean, International Journal of Political Economy, vol. 43, no. 3, Fall 2014, pp. 1-14.
“The Text and Anti-text in Teaching The Economics of the Firm”, with Rod Hill, International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2012, vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 144-159.
“The Robustness Across Space of Provincial Panel-Data Studies of Minimum Wages in Canada”, with Ted McDonald, Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Issue 3, Volume 33, 2010, pp. 77-88.
Career articles
"The Overemphasis on Perfectly Competitive Markets in Microeconomics Principles Textbooks" (with Rod Hill), Journal of Economic Education, Winter 2007, Volume 38, No. 1, pp. 58-77.
“Is Policy Perversity Consistent With Keynesian Business Cycles?” with W. M. Scarth, Journal of Macroeconomics, Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2003, pp. 351-365.
"Provincial Unemployment Rate Disparities: Revisited" Canadian Journal of Economics: Special Issue, April 1998, pp. S50-S52.
"Why Do We Know So Little About The Determinants of Unemployment? And In Particular the Effects of UIC?" in The Unemployment Crisis: All for Nought?, edited by Brian Maclean and Lars Osberg, McGill/Queens University Press, 1996.
"Can Fiscal Spending be Contractionary When Interest Rates Have Supply-Side Effects?" with W.M. Scarth, Journal of Macroeconomics, volume 17, number 2, (Spring) 1995, pp. 289-301.
"Provincial Unemployment Rate Disparities: A Case of No Concern?" Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Volume XV, Number 1, Spring 1992, pp. 101-119.
"The Female/Male Unemployment Rate Differential", with David Murrell, Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. XXIII, no. 2, May 1990, pp. 312-323.
"Male/Female Earnings Differentials and the Measurement of Skills", with David Murrell, Economics Letters, vol. 34, 1990, pp. 191-195.
"Fiscal Policy, Interest Sensitive Aggregate Supply, and the Costs of Disinflation", with W.M. Scarth, The Manchester School, vol. 55, no. 2, June 1987, pp. l44-l57.
"On the Non-Existence of a Natural Rate of Unemployment and Kaleckian Micro-Underpinnings to the Phillips Curve", Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, vol. IX, no. 3, Spring 1986, pp. 447-462.
"Interest Rates and Inflation: Uncertainty Cushions, Threshold and Patman Effects", with Gregory Young, Eastern Economic Journal, vol. XII, no. 2, April-June 1986, pp. 103-114.
"The Adverse Supply Side Effects of High Real Interest Rates and Procyclical Real Wage Movements", Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 1985, pp. 237-246.
"The Real Wage-Employment Relation: A Comment on the Time Series Approach", Applied Economics, vol. 17, no. 6, December 1985, pp. 947-954.
"The Real Wage-Employment Relationship", with W.M. Scarth, The Economic Journal, vol. 90, March 1980, pp. 85-94.
Work in progress
The Macroeconomics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide, with Brian MacLean
Recent conferences and seminars
“Bringing Plurality into the Classroom: Challenging the Orthodoxy in the Teaching of Economics”, Canadian Economics Association, Toronto, May 23, 2015.
“Alternatives to Fiscal Austerity”, with Brian MacLean, History of Economics Conference, Vancouver, June 24-26, 2013.
“The Intellectual Underpinnings of Recent Fiscal Austerity Policies” with Brian MacLean, presented to the Atlantic Canada Economics Association, Halifax, October 2012.
“The Nature and Importance of the Microunderpinnings Debate for Macroeconomics”, with Brian MacLean, presented to the Atlantic Canada Economics Association, Halifax, October 2012.
“Causes and Consequences of New Brunswick’s Fiscal Position", presented to Canadian Employment Research Forum, Sudbury, March 24, 2012.
“The State of Macroeconomics", presented to Canadian Employment Research Forum, Sudbury, March 23, 2012.
“The Theory of the Firm: Text and Anti-Text”, Midwest Economics Association, Evanston Illinois, March 30th 2012.
“Is there a fiscal crisis in New Brunswick?”, talk to the Occupy Fredericton Movement, Saint Thomas University, February 14th, 2012.
“Seeds of Rebellion among Economics University Students”, presented at the Associated Arts Societies Annual Colloquium, February 11th, 2012.
“Deficits and Debt in New Brunswick: Financial Meltdown or a Mere Blip?”, with Dave Murrell and Rod Hill, presented to the Canadian Economics Association, Ottawa, May 30th, 2011.
“What’s the Reality of New Brunswick’s Deficit and Debt?”, presented at the People’s Forum “It’s Our Economy Too” in Moncton, November 27th, 2010.
“Is there a market fundamentalist message in mainstream microeconomics textbooks”, paper presented to the Canadian Economic Association, Quebec, May 29th, 2010.
"The Economics of Labour Market Policy: A Tale of Two Tales", paper presented at the Informing Public Policy Conference on Labour History and Labour Issues in New Brunswick, September 2, 2009.
Recent service
Departmental Representative on the Faculty of Arts Assessment Committee, 2015
AUNBT Grievance Committee, 2014-2016
Student Standings and Promotions, 2013-2016
Arts Faculty Curriculum Committee 2003-2014
Arts 1000 Committee, 1998-2016
Dean of Arts Search Committee, 2013
Dean of Renaissance College Search Committee, 2013
Arts Faculty Essay Prize Committee 2013
Other activities
Finance Critic for the NDP in the 2010 Provincial Election
Awards
Recipient of the Arts Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008
Nominated for the Allan P. Stuart Award for Excellence in Teaching: 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008
