Professor of Economics

Michael Hemesath (Ph.D. Harvard) teaches international trade, health economics, and the economics of the former Soviet Union. He has been active in incorporating the case method of teaching into several of his classes. He has published research, some completed jointly with a colleague at St. Olaf, comparing attitudes towards markets in the U.S., Russia and China. He is also interested in economics education in the former Soviet Union. Professor Hemesath is deeply committed to off-campus studies programs. He has directed three Associated Colleges of the Midwest programs in Krasnodor, Russia, and has been faculty director for Carleton's Economics Seminar at Cambridge University four times, most recently in summer of 2005.