Martha Olney is a permanent Adjunct Professor of Economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 (2002-) at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

. She is a winner of local and national teaching awards, and has authored several leading undergraduate economics textbooks.

Academic Life

Martha Olney is a permanent Adjunct Professor of Economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 (2002-) at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

. She was previously an Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has been awarded the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award (in 2003), which is given to only three professors per year, and the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History, by the Economic History Association (in 1997).

She is the author of "Essentials of Economics" with Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman

Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times...

 and Robin Wells, "Macroeconomics" with J. Bradford DeLong

J. Bradford DeLong

James Bradford DeLong commonly known as Brad DeLong, is a professor of Economics and chair of the Political Economy major at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration under Lawrence...

, and "Microeconomics as a Second Language."

Educational Background

Olney received her Ph.D. in Economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

. Her dissertation work on consumer durables, the advent of consumer credit in the 1920s, and the Great Depression

Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...

, led to a book, "Buy Now, Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920's," and several related journal articles.

Sources

• http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~olney/
• http://www.cswep.org/board_members_info/Olney.htm
• http://www.cswep.org/newsletters/CSWEP_nsltr_Fall2005.pdf
• http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Martha%20L.%20Olney