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Office: Krannert Center, 231
Phone: (765)-494-8543
Email:
mwatts@krannert.purdue.edu
Center Web site:
http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/centers/pcee/
Ph.D., Economics, Louisiana State University, 1978
M.A., Economics, Louisiana State University, 1974
B.A., Economics, Louisiana State University, 1972
Professor Watts has been with Krannert since 1981.
He is the director of the Purdue Center for Economic
Education and an associate editor of the Journal
of Economic Education . He has served as president
of the National Association of Economic Educators and
the Society of Economics Educators, as Vice President
of the Midwest Economic Association, and as a member
of the American Economic Association's Committee on
Economic Education. He is listed in Who's Who in
Economics, 4th ed., Elgar. He has made more than
30 trips to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
since 1992, to help universities in those countries
restructure their economics curriculums, and to train
or retrain university and secondary economics teachers
and teacher trainers. His main teaching interests include
microeconomics, labor economics, managerial economics,
public policy analysis, and history of economic thought.
His major publications include The Literary Book
of Economics; "Is Sexy Economics and Economics
Teaching Necessary or Sufficient?"; "Faculty
Incentives and Time Allocations in U.S. Departments
of Economics" (with C. Harter and W. Becker); Reforming
Economics and Economics Teaching in the Transition Economies
(co-editor, with W. Walstad); "Reforming Undergraduate
Economics Instruction in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine"
(with A. Kovzik); "Comparing Student and Instructor
Evaluations of Teaching" (with W. Bosshardt); Teaching
Economics to Undergraduates: Alternatives to Chalk and
Talk (co-editor, with W. Becker); "How Departments
of Economics Evaluate Teaching" (with W. Becker);
"Who Values Economic Literacy?"; "Chalk
and Talk: A National Survey on Teaching Undergraduate
Economics" (with W. Becker); "An Appraisal
of Economics Content in the History, Civics, Social
Studies, and Geography National Standards" (with
S. Buckles); Voluntary National Standards for K-12 Economic
Education (with a writing committee); "A Comparison
of the Views of Economists, Economic Educators, Teachers,
and Journalists on Economic Issues" (with W. Becker
and W. Walstad); "Teaching Methods for Undergraduate
Economics" (with W. Becker); "The Principles
Courses Revisited" (with G. Lynch); "How Instructors
Make a Difference: Panel Data Estimates from Principles
of Economics Courses" (with W. Bosshardt); "Economics
in Literature and Drama" (with R. Smith); "Student
Gender and School District Differences Affecting the
Stock and Flow of Economic Knowledge"; "International
Economics in U.S. High Schools: Results from a National
Survey" (with R. Highsmith); "Economic Policy
and the Lives of Contemplation, Civic Humanism, Collectivism
and Individualism"; and "School District Inputs
and Biased Estimation of Educational Production Functions."
His articles have appeared in the Journal of Economic
Education, Review of Economics and Statistics, American
Economic Review, Southern Economic Journal, Economic
Inquiry, Eastern Economic Journal, and other professional
journals. He wrote a pamphlet, "What Is a Market
Economy?" for the U.S. Information Agency that
has been translated into Russian, Polish, and more than
thirty other languages. Professor Watts also co-authored
a high school textbook published by Laidlaw Brothers
(MacMillan) and has prepared other materials on economics
for elementary, secondary, and university students and
instructors, and for adult and employee education programs.
Professor Watts has served as a consultant for such
organizations as the National Council on Economic Education,
Indianapolis Children's Museum, Indianapolis Civic Theater,
Agency for Instructional Technology, Educational Testing
Services, The College Board, Internal Revenue Service,
Microsoft, TRW, B.F. Goodrich, Amoco Foundation, College
Board, International Monetary Fund, U.S. Information
Agency, and Christian Theological Seminary.
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