Social Science Division

Meet the Faculty

Ronald W. Batchelder
Professor of Economics

Division: Social Science Division
Office: Appleby Center (APC) 239
Phone: (310) 506-4544
Fax: (310) 506-7271
E-mail: ron.batchelder@pepperdine.edu

• Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
• BA, Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Courses:

• Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
• Comparative Economic Systems
• Money and Banking
• International Trade and Finance
• Economic Analysis of Legal Institutions

Academic Interests:

• Economic theory of legal institutions
• Efficient government policy
• International financial institutions

Selected Works:

• On Taxation and the Control of Externalities -- A Comment, with Earl A. Thompson, American Economic Review, June 1974.
• On the Rational Origins of the Modern Centralized State, with Herman Freudenberger, Explorations in Economic History, January 1983.
• Debt, Deflation, the Great Depression, and the Gold Standard, with David Glasner, in Money and Banking: The American Experience, George Edward Durell Foundation, Fairfax, Va.: George Mason University Press, 1995.
• The Encomienda and the Optimizing Imperialist: An Interpretation of Spanish Imperialism in the Americas, with Nicolas Sanchez, UCLA Department of Economics Working Paper No. 501
• Pre-Keynesian Monetary Theories of the Great Depression: What Ever Happened To Hawtrey and Cassel?, with David Glasner. UCLA Department of Economics Working Paper No. 626, August 1991.
• Parallels with the 1930's: Little Cause for Alarm, The Money Rate Report (March 1988), Vol. 9, No. 3; pp. 1-7.
• Three Potential Depressions Since World War II: How We Avoided Disaster, The Money Rate Report (September 1988), Vol. 9, No. 9; pp. 1-10.
• An Interpretation of the Growth in International Banking Indebtedness to Developing Countries: 1974-81, July 1995.
• Eminent Domain as an Efficient Bilateral Monopoly Contracting Policy, March 1984.