I approach economics as both an analytical discipline and a way of understanding the social world. My teaching combines economic theory, historical context, quantitative methods, and real-world applications. I aim to make difficult ideas accessible without sacrificing rigor and to help students understand how economic arguments are constructed rather than simply memorizing their conclusions.
In the classroom, I combine lectures and board derivations with discussion, data exercises, simulations, and applications using tools such as Excel and R. I encourage students to examine competing theoretical traditions and connect abstract economic concepts to contemporary social and policy questions. My teaching is guided by intellectual pluralism, clear communication, and the conviction that students learn best when they are both challenged and appropriately supported.
At The University of Tulsa, I teach courses in macroeconomics, economic growth, and pluralist and heterodox economics. My courses emphasize conceptual clarity, critical reasoning, and the comparative analysis of competing economic traditions. I encourage students to connect economic theory with empirical evidence, historical debates, and contemporary policy questions.
An introduction to long-run economic growth, unemployment, inflation, money and banking, fiscal and monetary policy, and short-run economic fluctuations. The course connects foundational macroeconomic concepts to economic data and contemporary policy debates.
An introduction to the economic analysis of contemporary social issues, including inequality, poverty, discrimination, healthcare, education, labor markets, environmental challenges, and public policy. The course introduces students to economic reasoning while encouraging them to evaluate competing perspectives and connect economic concepts to real-world social problems.
This upper-level course introduces students to competing theories of economic growth and distribution. It compares Classical-Marxian, neoclassical, Neo-Keynesian, Neo-Kaleckian, Post-Keynesian, and Goodwinian approaches, with particular attention to the assumptions and closure mechanisms that distinguish different models.
The course begins with the foundations of heterodox economics and an examination of the orthodox macroeconomic benchmark. It then develops the principle of effective demand through Keynes and Kalecki, before addressing endogenous money, conflict inflation, the Solow growth model, demand-led growth, distribution, and cyclical dynamics. Throughout the course, students evaluate how different traditions understand the roles of demand, money, institutions, technology, and income distribution in determining long-run economic outcomes.
Before joining The University of Tulsa, I served as an instructor of record and teaching assistant in the Department of Economics at the University of Utah.
Instructor of Record
Intermediate Macroeconomics — Fall 2022 and Fall 2023
Marxian Economics — Summer 2023
Probability and Statistical Inference for Economists — Spring 2023
Capitalism and Socialism — Spring 2022
Teaching Assistant
Econometrics for BEA — Fall 2021
Intermediate Macroeconomics and Macroeconomics — Spring and Fall 2021
Labor Economics — Fall 2020
Principles of Microeconomics — Fall 2019 and Spring 2020