The Economics Department Celebrates Three Book Publications in a Week!
Professor McIntyre, Professor Van Horn and, our newest faculty member, Professor Eichacker all had articles and books published within a week of each other! An Amazon book review describes Professor McIntyre’s book, Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees, as a ‘survey of the “Amherst School” of non-determinist Marxist political economy’. A similar review described Professor Eichacker’s book, Financial Underpinnings of Europe’s Financial Crisis: Liberalization, Integration, and Asymmetric State Power, as an analysis of the ways ‘financial liberalization affected the development of the financial crisis in Europe, with particular attention given to the ways in which power asymmetries within Western Europe facilitated financial liberalization and distributed the costs and gains from it’. Professor Van Horn co-edited a special issue of the journal History of Political Economy on the contributions of business to economics, a subject that previous historians of economic thought have overlooked.
Economics Major Reflects on FED Challenge
After URI’s first participation in the Federal Reserve Challenge, Nathan Anderson, a senior economics major, provides insight on his experience. Here is what he had to say: “The class as a whole was interesting. I enjoyed the style of researching topics on our own, putting together PowerPoint presentations, presenting them, and then having questions asked about what we researched. I feel as though that helped us when it came to the final presentation. I was very nervous about presenting in front of people when the class started; however doing it every class helped me become more confident in my presentation skills and I was ready when the time came for the final presentation… Going to Boston was an amazing experience even though we were severely outclassed by everyone there. I spoke to a couple of other teams, and they all had at least a whole semester to work on their final presentation. This gave them time to practice and perfect what they were talking about and prepare additional information.. Overall, this was probably the best and most interesting economics class I have taken and I would recommend other students to take this class.”
Nina Eichacker joins the Economics Department
Assistant Professor Nina Eichacker joined the department this fall. She received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and previously taught at Bentley College. She teaches macroeconomics and international finance. Nina recently had her second daughter and is balancing teaching, research and family. We are thrilled to have her here.
Liam Malloy appointed Honors Program Associate Director
Associate Professor Liam Malloy was recently appointed Associate Director of the URI Honors Program. His primary responsibility will be advising and participating in the general management of the program. Having been a champion advisor in Economics and the primary instructor for the Fall 2016 Honors Colloquium we are sure he will do a great job. While we will miss him on the 8th floor of Chafee he will still be teaching Economics courses, Industrial Organization this fall and the Senior Honors seminar in the Spring.
Humberto Miranda visits from Havana
Dr. Humberto Miranda is visiting the department this fall from the Institute of Philosophy in Havana Cuba. Dr. Miranda specializes in the role of popular democracy in the restructuring of the Cuban economy and in the role of popular movements in Latin American social change. At URI he is teaching teaching courses in the economics department and the Honors Program and will be part of a public conversation with Professor Moakley on “US-Cuban Relations During the Trump Regime” in October
McIntyre receives Fellowship in France
Professor McIntyre visited the University of Rennes II in Spring 2017 as the “Chair of the Americas” . He conducted research there as part of a team working on social and solidarity economy in the Brittany region. He also met with potential partners at Rennes I, Rennes II and Sciences Po for the planned new major in international studies and diplomacy.
Vicky Ferraro blogs from Cuba
Vicky Ferraro lived and studied in Cuba in Spring 2016 through URI’s first semester-long study abroad program in Havana. She was there when President Obama made his historic visit to Cuba and got to meet with RI Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and join the Presidential entourage for a baseball game. You can read about some of her experiences in URI ‘s Quadrangles magazine or on her blog.
