David Colander
Tel
(802) 443-5302
Email
colander@middlebury.edu
Office Hours
By appointment.

David Colander (1947 - 2023) was the Distinguished College Professor at Middlebury College. He authored, co-authored, and edited 30 books and over 100 articles on a wide range of topics. These include Principles of Economics (McGraw-Hill), History of Economic Thought (with Harry Landreth) (Houghton Mifflin), Macroeconomics(with Ed Gamber)(Prentice Hall), Why Aren’t Economists as Important as Garbagemen? (Sharpe), and MAP: A Market Anti-Inflation Plan (with Abba Lerner) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). His books have been, or are being, translated into a number of different languages, including Bulgarian, Polish, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese.

He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and has taught at Columbia University, Vassar College, the University of Miami, and Princeton University as well as Middlebury College. In 2001-2002 he was the Kelley Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He has also been a consultant to Time-Life Films, a consultant to Congress, a Brookings Policy Fellow, and a Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is listed in Who’s Who?, Who’s Who in Education?, etc.

He has been on the board of numerous economic societies and has been Vice President and President of the Eastern Economic Association and Vice-President of the History of Economic Thought Society. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Eastern Economic Journal, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is also series editor, with Mark Blaug, of Twentieth Century Economists for Edward Elgar Publishers.

His latest work focuses on economic education, complexity, and the methodology appropriate to applied policy economics.

Courses Taught

Course Description

Independent Study
Approval Required

Terms Taught

Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022

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