Consulting

I am available for consulting, more so during the summer. My background is in economic modeling and for my doctoral work I created an economic model of the dairy industry.

Research Interests

Agricultural Economics

Dairy Economics

Marriage and Contraception

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Courses Taught

Principles of Microeconomics

Intermediate Microeconomics

Intermediate Macroeconomics

Introduction to Econometrics

Strategic Thinking and Game Theory

Industrial Organization and Public Policy

Labor Economics and the Economics of Poverty

The History of Economic Thought

Catholic Social Teaching

Links

Economic Data

Publications

Induced Product Innovation in the U.S. Dairy Industry: The Economics of Milk Protein Concentrate, Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM, 2008.

“Two Mathematical Programming Models of Cheese Manufacture,” Journal of Dairy Science, Vol. 89, pp. 799-809, 2006.

Working Papers

"Money for Nothing: The Sin of Usury," AMU Economics Working Paper No. 0801, November 25, 2008.

Recent Presentations

Conference papers available upon request.

with Catherine Pakaluk, “Contraception, Marriage, and Promiscuity: The Impact of the Pill on the Family,” presented at the Association of Christian Economists 25th Anniversary Conference, Baylor University, April 16-18, 2009.

with Catherine Pakaluk, “Private Acts and Public Policy: The Economics of Contraception and Abortion,” presented at the Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Meeting, De Sales University, October 24-25, 2008.

“The Fundamental Welfare Theorems and Natural Law,” presented at the Association for Private Enterprise Education Annual Meeting, Harrah’s Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, April 6-8, 2008.

“Distributive Justice and Subsidiarity: The Firm and the State in the Social Order,” presented at the Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Meeting, New York, NY, October 26-7, 2007.

“Benedict’s Reflections on Economics,” presented at the Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Meeting, New York, NY, October 26-7, 2007.