Macroeconomics

About the Author
David Colander is Distinguished College Professor at Middlebury College. He has authored, coauthored, or edited over 40 books and over 150 articles on a wide range of economic topics.
He earned his B.A. at Columbia College and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. He also studied at the University of Birmingham in England and at Wilhelmsburg Gymnasium in Germany. Professor Colander has taught at Columbia University, Vassar College, the University of Miami, and Princeton University as the Kelley Professor of Distinguished Teaching. He has also been a consultant to Time-Life Films, a consultant to Congress, a Brookings Policy Fellow, and Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford.
He has been president of both the History of Economic Thought Society and the Eastern Economics Association. He has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Journal of Economic Education, The Journal of Economic Methodology, The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, The Journal of Socio-Economics, and The Eastern Economic Journal. He has been chair of the AEA Committee on Electronic Publishing, a member of the AEA Committee on Economic Education, and is currently the associate editor for content of the Journal of Economic Education.
He is married to a pediatrician, Patrice. In their spare time, the Colanders designed and built an oak post-and-beam house on a ridge overlooking the Green Mountains to the east and the Adirondacks to the west. The house is located on the site of a former drive-in movie theater. (They replaced the speaker poles with fruit trees and used the I-beams from the screen as support for the second story of the carriage house and the garage.) They now live in both Florida and Vermont.
Charlene holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Simon Fraser University, and is a provincially certified teacher with a British Columbia Professional Teaching Certificate. She has written several economics course manuals, and designed and delivered distance education courses. Charlene is the co-author of several academic papers, and a recipient of an award for excellence in teaching. She currently teaches various introductory and advanced economics courses to (very bright) students in the Financial Management and Advanced Studies in Business programs in the School of Business at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, B.C. Previously, Charlene worked as an economist with Bell Canada where she analyzed industrial strategy and competition policy. She was also a member of a collaborative research team at the Centre for Trade Policy and Law in Ottawa, which quantified the effects of North American free trade on Canadian manufacturing industries, and assessed the significance of international technology transfers between Canadian and U.S. high tech firms. Besides her interest in Canadian industrial policy and international trade, Charlene has a wide range of other fascinations: photography, art, architecture, wine, fitness, and the stock market. However, Charlene has discovered that her recreational activities are – most unfortunately – subject to an irascible and unsympathetic budget constraint.
Written in a very student oriented writing style, Colander, Rockerbie, Richter Macroeconomics, engages the student with interesting “stories” and emphasizes the intellectual and historical context to which economic models are applied. Students today are more interested in policy issues and the authors present the basics of economic reasoning as it relates to policy questions. The author’s primary goal is to instill students with “economic sensibility” and uses the integration of policy discussion and thought provoking economic stories to achieve this result.