Resume

• 2014

  Roosevelt University

  ·Tutored economics students in the fundamentals of economics and introductory statistics

  ran study sessions

  organized seminars and social events

  and assisted Professors with grading exams.

  Roosevelt University

  Adjunct

  Teaching introductory classes in Economics.

  Joliet Junior College

  Adjunct

  Teaching \"Theories of Justice\" (Econ 326/426) to both undergraduate and graduate students. The course surveys theories of social justice

  blending economics with philosophy. We read and discuss Rawls

  Nozick

  Hayek

  Friedman

  Mill

  Bentham

  Aristotle

  Sandel

  Adam Smith

  and others.

  Roosevelt University

  Adjunct Faculty

  Teaching economics to community college students.

  Kishwaukee College

  American Economics Association

• 2012

  English

  Bachelor’s Degree

  Economics

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  Economics

• Teaching

  University Teaching

  PowerPoint

  Statistics

  Economics

  Higher Education

  Data Analysis

  SPSS

  Research

  Qualitative Research

  Public Speaking

  Smith's Wedge: The Invisible Mishandling of Context in Robert Frank's The Darwin Economy

  Stephen Ziliak

  In The Darwin Economy a distinguished behavioral economist

  Robert Frank

  promises to put Adam Smith’s “invisible hand narrative” into “context”. Neglecting history

  empirical evidence

  original sources

  and a voluminous secondary literature

  he fails to deliver. Frank predicts that one hundred years from now professional economists will name not Adam Smith but Charles Darwin as the intellectual founder of their discipline. The reason he gives is “Darwin’s wedge”—a term he coins to emphasize a divergence between individual and group interests which in turn causes wasteful competition and collective loss. He credits Darwin for the insight. We find the very same “wedge” and insight in a book wholly neglected by Frank and most economists after Stigler

  namely

  Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Working with original sources we show that Frank’s view of the invisible hand—and thus of modern economics—is not sustainable. Contextual economics after Schmoller is of course voluminous but it is hardly known by Frank

  who is wedded to the axiomatic approach and “no cash on the table” conjecture favored by most neoclassicals. We highlight the problem with evidence on the economics of labor-managed firms and with a revival of a once-famous study by Carleton Parker on large scale farming

  unregulated migrant labor

  and the Wheatland Hop Field riot of 1913.

  Smith's Wedge: The Invisible Mishandling of Context in Robert Frank's The Darwin Economy

  Recently graduated economist seeking work in higher education

  community colleges in particular.

  Samuel

  Barbour

  Joliet Junior College

  Kishwaukee College

  Roosevelt University