Health Economics | Spring 2026 (Macalester College)
This course provides an overview of health economics and is designed to introduce you to the issues, theory, and practice of health economics. We will discuss the various market participants, including patients, provider firms, the healthcare labor force, hospitals, and insurance providers in the United States. We will explore recent research in peer-reviewed health economics journals to learn about the causal effect of various policies, incentives, and interventions. The topics include the demand/production of health (and the importance of health endowments, pollution education, etc.), the market for health insurance (with a focus on asymmetric information, adverse selection, moral hazard etc.), supply side incentives (including physician incentives, induced demand, and medical malpractice).
Principles of Economics | Fall 2025 (Macalester College)
Economics is the study of how people make decisions and how these decisions apply to real-world problems. Economics can help us understand income inequality within and across countries, the quality of the environment, unemployment, poverty, crime, health care, financial crises, technological change, inflation, and many more issues. This course introduces the basic tools that economists use to explore these topics and will cover fundamental economic concepts like scarcity, supply and demand, costs and benefits, trade-offs, and incentives. This course is a one-semester overview of both microeconomics (the study of choices firms and individual consumers make) and macroeconomics (the study of the economy as a whole).
Principles of Microeconomics | Summer 2021 (Vanderbilt University)
This course is designed to introduce you to the foundational concepts in microeconomics. We will cover behaviors of individuals and producers in markets. We will learn about competition, monopolies, efficient markets, and when markets fail.Â
Courses: Health Economics (2022, 2023), Intermediate Macroeconomics (2022), Intermediate Microeconomics (2021), First Year Writing Seminar (2020, 2021)