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Robert Whaples
Professor and Chair, Department of Economics
Wake Forest University

Professor Whaples graduated from the University of Maryland in 1983 with B.A.'s in Economics and History, and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. He regularly teaches Introduction to Economics, Current Economic Issues, and American Economic History.

Professor Whaples is the Director and Book Review Editor for EH.Net, which provides electronic services for economic historians. He also edits EH.Net's Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History. He has edited two books: Historical Perspectives on the American Economy (with Dianne Betts, 1995) and Public Choice Interpretations of American Economic History (with Jac Heckelman and John Moorhouse, 1999). He is the author (with Charles Mason) of the Study Guide to Jeffrey Perloff's Microeconomics.

His recent research includes an analysis of the economic impact of eliminating the penny.

Scholarship by Robert Whaples

Modern Economic Issues Lectures on CD and DVD
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Robert Whaples is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University. In 2007 The Teaching Company filmed a series of 36 30-minute lectures presented by Dr. Whaples on current economic issues. They are available on CD and DVD.

Are Public Choice Scholars Different?
In his classic text, Dennis Mueller (1989, 1) defines public choice analysis as “the economic study of nonmarket decision making, or simply the application of economics to political science. . . . The basic behavioral postulate of public choice, as for economics, is that man is an egoistic, rational, utility maximizer.”

Collapse? The "Dismal" Science Doesn't Think So
Faculty Affiliate Robert Whaples explains in the Independent Review why economists are very enthusiastic about the future.

EH.Net
Professor Whaples is the Director and Book Review Editor for EH.Net, which provides electronic services for economic historians. He also edits EH.Net's Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History.

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