Welcome to the
Barry W. Ickes Home Page
(heading for home at
Carnoustie)
Welcome
to my home page. You can find information related to my research, teaching, and
service. For Scottish golf
pictures click here. For pictures from Toftrees click here. For a copy of my
vita, click here.
Currently, I am Professor of Economics at the Pennsylvania State University, and Financial Director at The New Economic School in Moscow. I am the past Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. I was the President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies during 2004.
Clifford Gaddy and I are completing a new book, Russia’s Addiction: The Political Economy
of Resource Dependence,
Brookings Press, forthcoming. Here is a website that
has related materials.
It's out!! Russia's
Virtual Economy is finally published.
Research
My
research focuses on Russia and the economics of transition.
For
some recent papers that focus on the Russian economy, please click here.
Here is a list of working
papers, along with abstracts. You can find a list of my publications by
clicking here.
Teaching
During
the spring semester of 2007 I am teaching a course on Finance and Financial
Crises. Here is a link to
the website for the course. I am also teaching Econ 472, the Economics of Transition.
This course used to be Econ 372.
I usually teach the graduate course in Economic Development. To see my syllabus for Economic Development, click here. I have some selected lectures available to be downloaded. To reach the list of lectures, click here. Some of the readings for this course and other materials are available here.
Here is a link to the Economics Growth Workshop.
I also teach Econ 434, International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics.
Sometimes I teach Econ 503, Macroeconomic Analysis. To reach the Econ 503 Home Page, click here.
The
most important article ever written in economics can be found by clicking here
(subscription to JSTOR is required).
Paul
Krugman has an interesting article on reading
Keynes General Theory.
You
can find out how to contact me by clicking here
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page was prepared by Barry W. Ickes
Last
updated: January 2002
bwickes@psu.edu
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