Economics at Carleton College

15 faculty and 42 courses in Economics at Carleton College.

Faculty

• Nathan Grawe, Associate Chair, Lloyd P. Johnson-Norwest Professor of Economics h-index 14
  Notable: “Lifecycle bias in estimates of intergenerational earnings persistence” (2005) · 246 citations
• Mark Kanazawa, Wadsworth A. Williams Professor of Economics h-index 12
  In institutional economics, law and economics, economic history, and public choice, as applied primarily to the study of natural resources and the environment. Selected Publications Natural Resources and the Environment: Economics, Law
  Notable: “Racial Discrimination in Professional Basketball: Evidence from Nielsen Ratings” (2001) · 148 citations
• Aaron Swoboda, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Economics h-index 6
  Notable: “Hedonic analysis with locally weighted regression: An application to the shadow cost of housing regulation in Southern California” (2010) · 82 citations
• Michael Hemesath, Professor of Economics h-index 6
  Notable: “Cooperation and Culture: Students From China and the United States in a Prisoner's Dilemma” (1998) · 57 citations
• Jonathan Lafky, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 5
  Notable: “Why do people rate? Theory and evidence on online ratings” (2014) · 62 citations
• Prathi Seneviratne, Associate Professor of Economics, Chair h-index 3
  Notable: “Gender wage inequality during Sri Lanka’s post-reform growth: A distributional analysis” (2020) · 25 citations
• Ethan Struby, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 3
  Notable: “Would Active Labor Market Policies Help Combat High U.S. Unemployment” (2011) · 17 citations
• Victor Almeida, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 2
  Notable: “Default and Interest Rate Shocks: Renegotiation Matters” (2024) · 4 citations
• Martha Paas, Wadsworth A. Williams Professor of Economics, Emerita h-index 1
  Notable: “:The Revolution of 1525, The German Peasants' War from a New Perspective” (1983) · 113 citations
• Bruce Dalgaard, Visiting Scholar in Economics
• Faress Bhuiyan, Associate Professor of Economics
• Jenny Bourne, Raymond Plank Professor of Incentive Economics
• Stephen Lewis, Professor of Economics, Emeritus and President Emeritus
• Stephen Strand, Raymond Plank Professor of Incentive Economics, Emeritus
• Yingtong Xie, Assistant Professor of Economics

Courses

• Principles of Macroeconomics ECON 110
• Principles of Microeconomics ECON 111
• Microeconomic Development in Bangladesh ECON 201
• Cambridge Program: Contemporary British Economy ECON 221
• Cambridge Program: The Industrial Revolution in Britain ECON 222
• Cambridge Program: The Economics of Multinational Enterprises ECON 223
• Cambridge Program: J.M. Keynes and the Bloomsbury Group ECON 224
• Microeconomics of Development ECON 240
• Macroeconomic Growth and Development ECON 241
• Gender and Ethnicity in Latin American Economic Development ECON 244
• Welfare Economics and Mechanism Design ECON 246
• Economics of Gender ECON 257
• The Economics of Sports ECON 262
• Economics of Entrepreneurship ECON 263
• Healthcare Economics ECON 264
• Game Theory and Economic Applications ECON 265
• Behavioral Economics ECON 267
• Economics of Climate Change ECON 269
• Economics of the Public Sector ECON 270
• Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment ECON 271
• Water and Western Economic Development ECON 273
• Labor Economics ECON 274
• Law and Economics ECON 275
• Money and Banking ECON 276
• History and Theory of Financial Crises ECON 277
• Non-Competitive Pricing and Strategy ECON 278
• Macroeconomics of the Labor Market ECON 279
• International Trade ECON 280
• International Finance ECON 281
• The Theory of Investment Finance ECON 282
• Corporate Finance ECON 283
• Power, Electricity, Environment, and Policy ECON 284
• Computational Economics ECON 285
• Economic Beliefs, Political Beliefs, and Identity ECON 286
• AI: Economic Impacts, Challenges, and Opportunities ECON 287
• Analysis and Communication of Learning from External Experience ECON 297
• Econometrics ECON 329
• Intermediate Price Theory ECON 330
• Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory ECON 331
• Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics and Finance ECON 395
• Advanced Research in Economics ECON 398
• Integrative Exercise ECON 400

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.