John Burkett
Professor
Department of Economics and Department of Environmental and Natural Resouce EconomicsPh.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981
Professor Burkett has taught at Brown University, Kiev State University, and the University of California and held research positions at the Brookings Institution, the Economics Institute of Zagreb, Harvard University, and the University of London. His publications include Microeconomics: Optimization, Experiments, and Behavior (Oxford University Press, 2006) and articles in journals such as Economica , Economics Letters, European Economic Review, History of Political Economy, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Review of Economic Studies. His current interests include Bayesian econometrics, behavioral and experimental economics, health economics, and international economics.
He is the executive director of the Institute for the Study of International Aspects of Competition, a past president of the URI chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and on the editorial board of Economic Change and Restructuring.
Professor Burkett's classes include:
- ECN201 Principles of Economics: Microeconomics
- ECN202 Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
- ECN305 Competing Traditions in Economics
- ECN324 Intermediate Macroeconomics
- ECN327 Intermediate Economic Theory: Income and Employment
- ECN328 Intermediate Economic Theory: Pricing and Distribution
- ECN338 International Economics
- ECN360 Health Economics
- ECN/EEC527 Macroeconomic Theory
- ECN/EEC676 Advanced Econometrics
- EEC630 Advanced Microeconomics II
- STA502 Applied Regression Analysis
- STA545 Bayesian Statistics
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