Faculty
Jeff Adams (Chair), the Allen-Bradley Professor of Economics has taught at Beloit College since 1982, teaching courses in quantitative research and public policy and is the department chair. His primary research interest is in community economic development (including the impact of economic amenities and civic capital on community development). For the past 18 years he has been actively involved with Beloit 2020, a local nonprofit development corporation devoted to renewing the historic core of Beloit. He has been the advisor to Belmark Associates since 1985. He received a B.S. from Carroll College, a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, and did post-doctoral study as a National Institutes of Health Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Adams has been an active member of many civic organizations and currently serves on the board of directors of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance.
Emily Chamlee-Wright (web site)
Emily Chamlee-Wright is the Elbert H. Neese Professor of Economics and Associate Dean at Beloit College. She earned her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in 1993. Her research investigates the confluence of cultural and economic processes. She is the author of four books, The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social Learning in a Post-Disaster Environment (Routledge 2010), Culture and Enterprise: The Development, Representation, and Morality of Business, with Don Lavoie (Routledge 2000), and The Cultural Foundations of Economic Development (Routledge 1997). She is also co-editor of The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Development (Edward Elgar 2010) with Virgil Storr. Professor Chamlee-Wright is a former W.K. Kellogg National Leadership Fellow and a recipient of the Underkoffler Award for Excellence in Teaching from Beloit College.
Bob Elder joined the faculty in 1989. He teaches courses in macroeconomics, money and banking, econometrics, industrial organization, game theory, and mathematical economics. During the 1994-95 academic year, he held a Fulbright lectureship at the Krakow Academy of Economics in Poland. He spent the 2001-02 academic year in Riga, Latvia, again on a Fulbright lectureship. More recently he has taught in the international MBA program at the Helsinki School of Economics. His professional interests continue to involve applications of growth theory to economies in transition from central planning to free markets. A Keynesian, Professor Elder nevertheless seeks to provide his students with an objective appraisal of the various views debated among macroeconomists over the course of the century. Thus, an eclectic presentation acquaints students with the menu of alternative approaches to thinking about aspects of macroeconomic activity, permitting them to draw their own informed conclusions as they reflect on data from the real world. Professor Elder earned a B.S. at Georgia Institute of Technology, and an M.A. and Ph.D. at Yale University.
Jerry Gustafson earned his B.A. at Beloit College and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. Professor Gustafson joined the faculty in 1967. For twenty years, he taught economic principles and theory, focusing upon his interests in public-choice-making and welfare theory. As a Fellow of the American Political Science Association in 1973-74, he was aide in House and Senate offices where he worked on energy legislation and budget process reform. In 1987, Professor Gustafson became Coleman Foundation Professor in Entrepreneurship. He began to teach courses in entrepreneurship and business in which he has increasingly specialized. He is a member of the Coleman Council for Entrepreneurship Awareness, of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and serves on the board of Self-Employment in the Arts. He is a former member of the Higher Education Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee to the Kauffman Foundation, and the recipient of the Appel Prize, from the Price/Babson Institute, for bringing the entrepreneurial spirit to academe. In 2004, Professor Gustafson founded and became Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship in Liberal Education at Beloit (CELEB), an incubator for student businesses. He held Fulbright Senior Lectureships at Marmara University, Istanbul (1987–88) and at the Middle-East Technical Institute, Ankara, Turkey (1995-96), and was founder of the Beloit/Turkey Student Exchange Program.
Joshua Hall joined the department in 2007. He teaches and researches in the area of applied microeconomics, including urban economics, public finance and the economics of education. Professor Hall received his Ph.D. in economics from West Virginia University and graduate and undergraduate degrees in economics from Ohio University. Formerly an economist for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, Professor Hall has an extensive background in writing for scholarly audiences as well as for policy makers and citizens. In addition to authoring or co-authoring over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and academic book reviews, numerous articles and reviews, he is co-author of the widely-cited annual Economic Freedom of the World report. Professor Hall also directs the Charles G. Koch Student Research Colloquium and Speaker Series. The colloquium gives students the opportunity to further develop their interest in the ideas and institutions underpinning a free and prosperous society through the discussion of seminal articles aimed at deepening students' understanding of the market process and through writing their own articles for publication in a newspaper, magazine, or academic journal.
Arielle John is the Miller Upton Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics. Ms. John is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at George Mason University and a Mercatus Center Graduate Student Fellow. She earned her M.A. in Economics from George Mason University in 2010 and her B.A. in Economics from Hood College in 2008. Ms. John's expertise is in the area of Caribbean economic development with a particular emphasis on the ways in which culture shapes entrepreneurship in the region. Ms. John's teaching interests include principles of economics, microeconomics, economic development, constitutional economics, and law and economics. She will be teaching in the Department of Economics at Beloit in the Spring and Fall semesters of 2012.
Warren Palmer joined the department in 1992. He has taught courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, accounting, finance, comparative economic systems, international comparisons of industrial firms, managerial economics, the Chinese economy, and energy and environmental economics. His continuing research interests focus on the Chinese economy and on energy economics. Professor Palmer also is a contributor to Aplia.com; founded by Paul Romer, Aplia offers interactive course tools to help better prepare economics and finance students. Warren's students have become quite familiar with these tools in his classes. Professor Palmer graduated with a B.S. from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a major field in comparative economic systems and a minor field in Asian studies. A late entrant into academia, Professor Palmer has also owned a print shop, worked as a publications consultant, and contributed articles to Organic Gardening magazine; he and his spouse designed and built their own home in the mountains outside of Missoula, Montana.
Diep Phan received her Bachelor degree in economics from Macalester College, and earned her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008. Her primary research interest is in economic growth and development of developing nations, especially East and Southeast Asian economies. Currently she is researching extensively on the labor market in Vietnam, studying the impacts of economic growth, structural change and trade liberalization on the labor market outcomes, and how such impacts relate to poverty and income distributions issues. In 2009, she joined the Department of Economics at Beloit, teaching international economics in addition to introductory economics.