James E. Hartley

 

Economics Department                                                                       

Mount Holyoke College                                                                      

South Hadley, MA 01075

Phone: (413) 538-2566

Fax: (413) 538-2323

jhartley@mtholyoke.edu         

 

 

Education

 

Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Davis, 1994

Dissertation Title: Technology in Macroeconomic Models

 

M.A. in Economics, University of California, Davis, 1990

 

B.A. in Economics, University of California, Davis, 1988

Graduated with Highest Honors

Phi Beta Kappa (1987)

 

Academic Positions

 

Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College, 2007-present

Director, First Year Seminar Program, Mount Holyoke College, 2007-present

Associate Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College, 2000-2007

Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management,       Kolkata,

            2006-07

Visiting Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (Fulbright Lecture Grant),

2001-02

Assistant Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College, 1994-2000

Lecturer in Economics, University of California, Davis, 1994

 

Academic Publications

 

Books

 

The Representative Agent in Macroeconomics, London: Routledge, 1997.

 

Editor, Real Business Cycles: A Reader, (with Kevin D. Hoover and Kevin D. Salyer), London: Routledge, 1998.

 

Editor, Mary Lyon: Documents and Writings, South Hadley: Doorlight Publications, 2008.

 

 

Articles

 

“The Origins of the Representative Agent,” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10(2), (Spring 1996), 169-177.

 

“Reform During Crisis: The Transformation of California's Fiscal System During the Great Depression,” (with Steven M. Sheffrin and J. David Vasche), Journal of Economic History, 56(3), (September 1996), 657-678.

 

“Scholars and Mentors: Research in Psychology and the Production of PH.D.s,” (with Michael D. Robinson), Psychological Reports, 79, (December 1996), 846.

 

“Calibration and Real Business Cycle Models. An Unorthodox Experiment,” (with Kevin D. Salyer and Steven M. Sheffrin), Journal of Macroeconomics, 19(1), (Winter 1997), 1-17, (reprinted in Hartley, Hoover and Salyer, Real Business Cycles: A Reader, London: Routledge, 1998).

 

“Response from James E. Hartley,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11(4) (Fall, 1997), 233.

 

“Economic Research at National Liberal Arts Colleges: School Rankings,” (with Michael D. Robinson), Journal of Economic Education, 28(4) (Fall 1997), 337-349.

 

“The Limits of Business Cycle Research: Assessing the Real Business Cycle Model,” (with Kevin D. Hoover and Kevin D. Salyer), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 13(3), (1997), 34-54.

 

“A Skeptical Note on the Importance of Technology Shocks,” American Economist, 42(1), (Spring 1998), 108-111.

 

“The Limits of Business Cycle Research” and “A User's Guide to Solving Real Business Cycle Models” (with Kevin D. Hoover and Kevin D. Salyer) in Real Business Cycles: A Reader, (James E. Hartley, Kevin D. Hoover and Kevin D. Salyer, eds) London: Routledge, 1998, pp. 3-54.

 

“Psychology Research at National Liberal Arts Colleges,” (with A. Rene Schmauder and Michael D. Robinson), Teaching of Psychology, 26, (1999), 95-101.

 

“Real Myths and a Monetary Fact,” Applied Economics, 31, (1999), 1325-1329.

 

“Does the Solow Residual Actually Measure Changes in Technology?” Review of Political Economy, 12, (January 2000), 27-44.

 

“The Rebirth of Business Cycles,” in Backhouse, Roger and Salanti, Andrea (eds), Macroeconomics and the Real World (2 vols.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 61-68.

 

“The Great Books and Economics,” Journal of Economic Education, 32(2), (Spring 2001), 147-159.

 

“Economists' Publication Patterns” (with James W. Monks and Michael D. Robinson), American Economist, 45(1), (Spring 2001), 80-85.

 

“Geoscience Research at Liberal Arts Colleges: School Rankings,” (with Michael D. Robinson and Steven R. Dunn), Journal of Geoscience Education, 49(3), (May 2001), 267-273.

 

“Sociology Research at Liberal Arts Colleges,” (with Michael D. Robinson), American Sociologist, 32(3) (Fall 2001), 60-72.

 

“Mutual Deposit Insurance: Other Lessons from the Record,” The Independent Review, 6(2), (Fall 2001), 235-252.

 

“Modigliani’s Expectations,” Eastern Economic Journal, 30(3) (Summer 2004), 429-440.

 

“Should American Studies Study Itself?” Academic Questions, 17(2), (Spring 2004), 33-44.

 

“Kydland and Prescott’s Nobel Prize: The Methodology of Time Consistency and Real Business Cycle Models,” Review of Political Economy, 18(1) (January 2006), 1-28, (reprinted in Steven Pressman (ed.) Leading Contemporary Economists: Economists at the Cutting Edge, London: Routledge, pp. 335-365).

 

“Which Countries are Most Studied by Economists?  An Examination of the Regional Distribution of Economic Research”  (with Michael Robinson and Patricia Schneider), Kyklos, 59(4), (2006), 611-624.

 

“Limited Government is Good,” Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly, 92(1) (Spring 2008), 25-26.

 

“The Chameleon Daniel Defoe: Public Writing in the Age Before Economic Theory,” in Charles Ivar McGrath and Chris Fauske (eds), Money, Power and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008, pp 26-50.

 

“Representative Agent,” in  Darity, William, et. al. (eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2008, pp 173-174.

 

“Breeding Barren Metal: Usury in The Merchant of Venice,” in Joseph Pearce, ed., The Merchant of Venice: Ignatius Critical Edition, Fort Collins, Colorado: Ignatius Press, 2009, pp. 201-216.

 

“For Craft is All, Whoso That Do it Can: Merchants and Morals in The Canterbury Tales,” in David Williams, ed., The Canterbury Tales: Ignatius Critical Edition, Fort Collins, Colorado: Ignatius Press, forthcoming.

 

 

 

Book Reviews

 

“Review of Aggregation and the Microfoundations of Dynamic Macroeconomics by Forni (Mario) and Lippi (Marco)” The Economic Journal, 109(453), (February 1999), F224-F226.

 

“Review of Risk and Business Cycles: New and Old Austrian Perspectives by Cowen (Tyler),” The Economic Journal, 109(456), (June 1999), F484-F486.

 

“Review of Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution: Studies of the Inter-war Literature on Money, the Cycle, and Unemployment (Laidler, David),” Journal of Economic Literature, 37(4), (December 1999), 1708-1710.

 

“Review of Beyond the Representative Agent, Gallegati (Mauro) and Kirman (Alan), eds.,” The Economic Journal, 111(469), (February 2001), F145-F147.

 

“Review of The Methodology of Empirical Macroeconomics, by Hoover (Kevin D.)” Journal of Economics, 78(1), (2003), 110-112.

 

“Review of Reinventing Functional Finance (ed., Edward Noll and Mathew Forstater),” Eastern Economic Journal, 32(3), (Summer 2006), 561-562.

 

“Review of Inside the Economist’s Mind (ed. Paul Samuelson and William A. Barnett),” The Economic Record, 84(265) (June 2008), 273-274.

 

 

Conference, Seminar and Invited Lecture Presentations

 

“The Rebirth of Business Cycles,” Conference on “Theory and Method in Macroeconomics,” University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy, October 1998.

 

“Carnegie Confronts the Macroeconomy: Modigliani and Development of Macroeconomic Expectations”

      History of Economics Society Annual Meetings, University of

            British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, July 2000

      Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2001.

 

“Should American Studies Study Itself?  How Academia Failed the American Experiment”

            American Studies International Conference, Nagorkot, Nepal, September 2001.

 

“The Role and Value of an International Education,” American Consulate of Kolkata’s International Awareness Week Program, October 2001.

 

“The Practical Implications of New Growth Theory,” Five Year Anniversary Celebration of IFCIAN Business School, November 2001.

 

“The Economics of Globalization,” Senior Staff meeting of the Mennonite Central Committee of Kolkata, December 2001.

 

“Financial Liberalization: Problems and Prospects,” Round Table Discussion organized by the American Consulate of Kolkata, January 2002.

 

“Modern Macroeconomic Paradigms,” and “The Macroeconomic Implications of the Euro,” Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, January 2002.

 

“Augustine, Luther and Calvin: Pioneers of the Nonstochastic Dynamic General Equilibrium Model,”  Pruitt Memorial Symposium: Christianity and Economics Conference, Baylor University, November 2002.

 

“Beyond Robinson Crusoe: Defoe and Economics,” Money, Power & Prose: an interdisciplinary colloquium on financial revolution in the British Isles, 1688 – 1756, University of Regina, Canada, June 2004.

 

Panelist, God and Government, sponsored by the Office of Religious Life, Mount Holyoke College, October 26, 2004.

 

Panelist, The Post-Election Snapshot, sponsored by the Weisman Center for Leadership, Mount Holyoke College, November 4, 2004.

 

“Bush’s Economic Policy,” Interview with Bob Paquette, WFCR News, November 9, 2004.

 

“The Implications of Foreign Debt for the United States,” Weston Open Learning Foreign Policy Brown Bagger, March 3, 2005.

 

“The Great Books and Economics,” Mount Holyoke Alumni Club of Fairfield Village Winter Meeting, March 3, 2005.

 

“Catholic Social Thought and Economic Growth: Old and New Ways of Thinking,”  Respondent Comments, The Call to Justice: The Legacy of Gaudium et Spes 40 Years Later, Vatican City, March 2005.

 

“Rediscovering Western Civilization (and Yourself) through Reading the Great Books,” Mount Holyoke Alumni Club of Northern New Jersey Spring Seminar, April 16, 2005.

 

“The State of the Economy,” Springfield College’s Learning in Later Life series, April 7, 2005.

 

“A Life Not Worth Living?  Terri Schiavo and the Culture of Death,” Controversies in End of Life Care: Terri Schiavo’s Lessons, Smith College, October 2005.

 

Session Chair and Discussant, Colloquium on Money, Power and Prose: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Financial Revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1756, Armagh, Ireland, June 2006.

 

“Retail Development in India: Perspectives from the United States,” Roundtable on Retail Development in India organized by US Consulate, Kolkata, October 2006.

 

“WTO and Developing Countries,” National Seminar on Global Convergence of Education in Commerce and Management, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, November 2006.

 

“U.S. Experiments with Economic Growth: Lessons for India?”

            Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, November 2006

            Postgraduate Department of Economics, Guwahati University, Guwahati, November 2006

            Indian Council for Social Science Research, Shillong Women’s College, Shillong,     November 2006

            Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change, Guwahati, November 2006

            Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, November 2006

            Postgraduate Department of Economics, Cotton College, Guwahati, November 2006

            Assam Management Association, Guwahati, November 2006

            Postgraduate Department of Economics, Tripura University, Argatala, November 2006

            Postgraduate Department of Management, Tripura University, Argatala, November 2006

            Indian Institution of Engineers, Argatala, November 2006

            Meghnad Saha Institute of Management and Technology, Kolkata, November 2006

            Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, Kolkata, November 2006

            Institute of Management and Information Science, Bhubaneswar, December 2006

            Regional College of Management, Bhubaneswar, December 2006

            Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, December 2006

            IBAT School of Management, Bhubaneswar, December 2006

            American Center, Kolkata, January 2007

            Burdwan University, Burdwan, January 2007.

 

“Separation of Powers in the United States Constitution,” American Center, Kolkata, January 2007.

 

“Did the Western Mind Close? A Response to Charles Freeman,” Five College Roundtable on Spirit and the Academy, March 2008.

 

Session Chair “Evaluating North and Weingast,” Colloquium on Money, Power and Prose: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Financial Revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1756, St. John’s, Newfoundland, June 2008.

 

“The Financial Crisis in Asia,” Interview with Addie Thaniel, Here’s My Question, WSMN 1590, November 2, 2008.

 

“Crisis and Opportunity,” 1st Annual Economic Forum Breakfast, South Hadley Chamber of Commerce, November 19, 2008.

 

“Are Markets Moral?” Amherst Center for Christian Studies, January 2009.

 

“Time to Bury the Christian Economics Experiment,” Association of Christian Economics, 25th Anniversary Conference, Baylor University, April 2009.

 

“Final Lecture,” Mount Holyoke Senior Class, Commencement Weekend, May 2009.

 

“Mary Lyon,” Back-to-Class, Reunion Weekend I and II, Mount Holyoke College, May 2009

                       Enrollment Division Retreat, Mount Holyoke College, June 2009.

 

“The State of the Economy,” 2nd Annual Economic Forum Breakfast, South Hadley Chamber of Commerce, October 21, 2009.

 

“Forever Building,” Erasmus Institute for Christian Studies at the Five Colleges, February 2, 2010.