faculty portrait
 

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

Office: Room 409, De Lasalle Hall
voice   718.862.7466 
fax      718.862.8032
fiona.maclachlan@manhattan.edu
fiona.mac@gmail.com

Teaching (Spring 2010)
Business Statistics (ECON 227)
Intermediate Macroeconomics (ECON 302)
(Course sites in Blackboard.)

Office Hours
Monday , Wednesday, Thursday
10:10 am-11:05 am, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Or by appointment.

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

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 11feb10

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