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Dr. Fiona Maclachlan

Dr. Fiona Maclachlan

Professor of Economics

Chair of the Department

Education:

  • BA Queen’s University (Canada) 1981 Economics
  • MA Rutgers University 1985 Economics
  • Ph.D. New York University 1991 Economics

Contact Information:

Courses Taught/Teaching

  • ECON 201 Principles & Policies I: Macroeconomics
  • ECON 302: Intermediate Macroeconomics

These courses may not reflect what is being taught this semester. For current information visit the course catalog online.

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

“The Beaman Distribution: A New Descriptive Model for the Size Distribution of Incomes,” Journal of Income Distribution, 17: 1, March 2008.

“J.A. Hobson and the Economists,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics. 25:2, Winter 2002-2003, pp. 297-308.

 

Other Intellectual Contributions:

“Interactive Economic Models from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project” with W. J. Bolte and Seth Chandler, http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/issues/v40_1/2.htm , forthcoming, Journal of Economic Education.

Contributions to Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/author.html?author=Fiona+Maclachlan

"The Distribution of Market Shares in Monopolistically Competitive Markets", NKS 2007 WolframScience Conference, Burlington, VT, July 15, 2007.

“Investigating Power Laws with Mathematica, ” Proceedings, Wolfram Technology Conference, Champaign, IL, 2006.
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Conferences/6461/

“Mathematica Applications for Introductory Finance Courses”, Proceedings, Wolfram Technology Conference, Champaign, IL, October 2005.
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/conferences/5807/

“J. A. Hobson,” in D. Rutherford, ed., Biographical Dictionary of British Economists,
Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004.

“Notes on the Liquidity Trap,” International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.  http://www.isanet.org/archive.html .

 “Max Weber and the State Theory of Money,” International Studies Association, Portland Oregon, March 2003.

Homepage:

http://home.manhattan.edu/~fiona.maclachlan/