Job market paper. Presented at the Social Science History Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., October 18, 1997. This course covers basic international trade theory and the analysis of trade policy. Economic History of the Americas , an upper-level elective course for undergraduates majoring in economics. This course introduces students to the field of economic history via a survey of American economic history from colonial times to the twentieth century, including material on Latin America and the Caribbean as well as North America.
Students write an original research paper.
The New England Economy in Historical Perspective , an elective economics course for non-majors. Principles of Macroeconomics , an introductory macroeconomics course open to all students.