Department of the Treasury and assistant professor of economics at Texas State University. He has done research on the measurement of monetary policy, the transmission mechanisms through which it works, and its impact on the global, national, and regional economies. He has published in journals such as Economic Inquiry, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Cato Journal, and the North American Journal of Economics and Finance. Beckworths blogging at Macro and Other Market Musings has been cited by the Washington Post, New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, CNN/Fortune, Bloomberg/Businessweek, Newsweek, Christianity Today, and other prominent blogs, and his popular articles have appeared in The New Republic, National Review Online, Investors Business Daily, Barrons, and Focus.