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The Department offers an
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. (IPh.D.) degree emphasizing a heterodox-pluralistic
approach to economics. We train students to teach in economics programs at
liberal arts colleges and research universities in the United States and
abroad, and to conduct research in economic theory, applied economic issues,
and policy-oriented problems. We welcome students to join our department and
to thrive in an intellectually challenging atmosphere of collegial
scholarship. Our Department offers the opportunity for study well beyond the
traditional boundaries of economics.
The UMKC Economics
Department has a long tradition of Institutional and Post Keynesian
scholarship. Abba Lerner started his U.S. career here in 1936. John
Hodges, the first Ph.D. student of C. E. Ayres, began as department
chair in 1946. He started the tradition in Institutional economics, and
it has been continuously in place since. Robert Brazelton brought the
Post Keynesian tradition to the Department when he came in the 1960s. It
too has prospered here. Members of the Department are long standing
participants in the Association for Evolutionary Economics, Association
of Social Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, Association
for Institutional Thought, Association for Heterodox Economics,
Conference of Socialist Economists, and the European Association for
Evolutionary Political Economy.
The objective of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Economics at
UMKC is to provide the student with the research training and tools
necessary to contribute to the expansion of economic theory and to apply
that theory to the development of dynamic public policy. Students
receive a thorough grounding in heterodox economic theory. This is done
through the combination of required and elective courses that are
concerned with theoretical, empirical, and policy issues that draw upon
particular features of the theory. The program also provides students
with an understanding of research methodology and research methods and
techniques, including econometrics and qualitative methods, and a
critical understanding of neoclassical theory.
The M. A. program at UMKC seeks to provide students with a broad level of
competence in economics. Students are encouraged to extend the reach of
their scholarship to acquire a wide-ranging foundation in addition to
technical mastery of theory and quantitative methods. This is done through
the combination of required and elective courses.
The Co-discipline in economics seeks to provide the student with a basic
understanding of economic theory and methodology. This is done through the
combination of required and elective courses. The Graduate Co-Advisors are
Professor Lee and Professor Wray. Professor Lee handles all applications for
graduate study. He is also the Graduate Advisor for all the MA students.
Professor Wray is the Graduate Advisor for all students admitted to the
IPh.D. program. |
