Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown received her BA degree in economics from Pomona College in 1975 and continued her economics education at Princeton University, receiving her MA in 1977 and her Ph.D. in 1981.  After teaching at the University of Florida and Princeton University, she joined the faculty at Pomona College in 1986, where she is now the James Irvine Professor of Economics.   

Professor Brown is an applied microeconomist.  Her teaching portfolio includes micro theory; public finance (economics of the public sector); gender, family and economic roles; and a team-taught seminar incorporating philosophy, politics, and economics .  She is interested in resource allocation in the absence of profit-maximizing behavior, through private philanthropy, volunteer labor, government, nonprofit organizations, and within the family.  She is an officer of the Association for the Study of the Grants Economy and since 1998   serves as deputy editor of the multi-disciplinary scholarly journal Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Street/Mailing Address: 
Pomona College - Department of Economics
425 N. College Ave., Rm. 211
Claremont, CA  91711  

Office hours:   

Fall: Tuesday  1:00 -3:00 PM, and by Appointment

 
Office phone: x72810 (from locations off campus, 909-607-2810)  
Fax:  909-621-8576
 

Courses:

FALL 2005:
Economics 121: The Economics of Gender and Family MWF 11:00
Economics 160: Freedom, Markets, and Well-Being. MW 1:15

SPRING 2006:
To Be Announced

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