About the Author

Eric P. Chiang received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and his master’s and doctorate in economics from the University of Florida. His first academic position was at New Mexico State University. Currently, Eric is an associate professor and graduate director of the Department of Economics at Florida Atlantic University. Eric also serves as the director of instructional technology for the College of Business.

In 2009, Eric was recipient of Florida Atlantic University’s highest teaching award, the Distinguished Teacher of the Year. He also received the Stewart Distinguished Professorship awarded by the College of Business among numerous other teaching awards. He has published twenty-five articles in peer-reviewed journals on a range of subjects including technology spillovers, intellectual property rights, telecommunications, and health care. His research has appeared in leading journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Technology Transfer, and the Southern Economic Journal. He has presented papers at all major economics conferences and at universities across the country and around the world.

As an instructor who teaches both face-to-face and online courses, Eric uses a variety of technological tools including clickers, text-response systems, and homework management systems to complement his active learning style lectures. As an administrator in the College of Business, Eric’s role as director of instructional technology involves assisting instructors with effectively implementing classroom technologies. In this position, Eric also ensures that the quality of online courses meets accreditation standards including those set by AACSB.

In addition to his dedication to teaching economic principles and his administrative duties, Eric devotes time to new research in economic education. His current research agenda focuses on the effects of online versus face-to-face courses and the power of visual learning. The third edition of Coreeconeconomics embodies Eric’s devotion to economic education and the benefits of adapting to the new, often creative ways in which students learn and instructors teach.

In his spare time, Eric enjoys studying cultures and languages, and travels frequently. He has visited all fifty U.S. states, many of them to run half-marathons, and over seventy countries, and enjoys long jogs and walks when he travels in order to experience local life to the fullest.

Memorial to Jerry Stone

Worth Publishers regrets to inform you that Jerry Stone passed away after a difficult battle with cancer at the end of August 2010. Jerry Stone had a remarkable career as a longtime teacher at Metropolitan State University of Denver and as an author of two successful principles of economics textbooks. Those who knew Jerry miss his steadfast commitment to the teaching of economics, a legacy that lives on in each new edition of Coreeconeconomics. Jerry Stone long-believed that the best principles of economics textbooks are authored by people invested in their students’ classroom experience. The decisions made in the shaping of the second edition were educated by Jerry’s thirty-plus years in the classroom and by the team of instructors that contributed to every aspect of the media and supplements package. The second edition was Jerry’s accomplishment: a book envisioned, designed, and executed to be the principles of economics book that teaches better than any other textbook on the market.