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Fiona  Maclachlan
Professor of Economics & Finance
Manhattan College
Riverdale, NY 10471

Office: Room 421, De Lasalle Hall
voice   718.862.7466 
fax      718.862.8032
fiona.maclachlan@manhattan.edu
fiona.mac@gmail.com

Teaching Spring 2012
ECON 202: Principles and Policies II: Microeconomics
ECON 302: Intermediate Macroeconomics

Office Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday: 9:30-11:00 am

Recent Research

Independent Agents versus Central Banks: Endogenous Money and the Struggle for Control over Credit with Gregory Nowell, presented at ICAPE Third International Research Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, November 11-13, 2011

Long-run and Short-run Cost Curves
Markowitz Mean-Variance Diagram
in Famous Figures and Diagrams in Economics  edited by Mark Blaug and Peter Lloyd, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010.

Random Division and the Size Distribution of Business Firms
 Complex Systems    18(2), 2009.

Interactive Economic Models from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
with W. J. Bolte and Seth Chandler, 
Journal of Economic Education 40(1), Winter 2009.

The Beaman Distribution: A New Descriptive Model for the Size Distribution of Incomes
with John E. Reith
, Journal of Income Distribution   17(1) ,  March 2008.


Contributions to Wolfram Demonstrations Project (on-line resource)

Investigating Power Laws with Mathematica (conference presentation, October 2006 )

Mathematica Applications for Introductory Finance Courses (conference presentation, October 2005)

Other Selected Writings

Joan Robinson on Harrod's Dynamics
Notes on the Liquidity Trap
Max Weber and the State Theory of Money
Cheaper to Lease? On the Economics on Automobile Leasing

Last updated 19jan12

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