Welcome New and Returning Students to
the Fall 2007 Semester

  Thanks to all alumni in keeping the Department up to date on your continued success. 
 

Congratulations to Dr. Yousif on being selected as one of 16 faculty members for the second group of "Promising Scholars" 2006-2007.  The program is part of "Fulfilling the Promise - The Path to Preeminence", a six-year plan to raise Indiana State to a high level of prominence in the state.

The Promising Scholars program demonstrates this university's commitment to provide experimental learning for students and also to create solutions to community programs.

 Dr. Yousif's project is entitled "Building the Future:  Economic Alternatives for Iraq".  The project seeks to propose executable economic policies that   promote reconstruction and stability in Iraq.  How to overcome the country's  current issues and challenges and focus on advancing human development 

Recent Faculty Research
   & Scholarly Pursuits

  To see additional recent scholarly work, check out the bulletin board
    in front of the Econ Dept. HH Rm 277 or  previous newsletter editions.

  Paul Burkett

  "Two Stages of Ecosocialism" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF
     POLITICAL ECONOMY, Fall 2006 (in press)

  "China and the Dynamics of Transnational Accumulation", HISTORICAL
     MATERIALISM, Vol. 14, No 3, 2006, pp. 3-43

  "Total Factor Productivity: An Ecological-Economic Critique," 
  ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT, June 2006, pp. 171-190.

  Debra Israel

  "Impact of Increased Access and Price on Household Water Use in Urban
   Bolivia"   The Journal of Environment and Development.  March 2007,
    v. 16, n. 1.

    "Charitable Donations:  Evidence of Demand for Environmental Protection?" 
     International Advances in Economic Research. v. 3, n. 2, May 2007,
     forthcoming  in print, published electronically Feb 2007. DOI 10,
     1007/sl11294-007-9080-4.

  "Environmental Participation in the U.S. Sulfur Allowance Suctions."
   Environmental and Resource Economics. Forthcoming in print, published
   electronically, Feb. 2007 DOI 10.1007/s10640-007-9079-6

  Richard Lotspeich

   Co-author Iryan Johnson (research Staff Indiana State University's Office of
   Strategic  Planning, Institution Research and Effectiveness)  "Perceptions
   and Personal  Economic Status and Attitudes toward Economic Status
   and Attitudes toward Economic and Political Transition in Four Salvic
   Countries:   A Structural Equations Approach. "  Scientific Notes-Journal
   of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy:  Socialogical Sciences, v. 58.

   Bassam Yousif

   "Economic Restructuring in Iraq:  Entended and Unitended Consequences." 
    Journal of Economic Issues, March 2007

   "Development Industrial:  The middle East and North Africa" in the
     Encyclopedia  of the Modern World, Oxford University Press,
     2008 (invited submission).

Center for Economic EducationB

The Center for Economic Education has had a very busy summer and fall.  In addition to the Center’s normal graduate credit based summer workshop for K-8 teachers, the Center held its second “overnight” workshop for middle and high school teachers at McCormick’s Creek State Park in June.  This 3 day workshop, funded by an award through the national “Excellence in Economic Education” legislation was based on the teaching of economic and geographical standards, utilizing Thomas Friedman’s thesis in the popular book “The Lexus and the Olive Tree”. 

John

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