Dr. Laurence J. Malone, Professor of Economics and Department Chair, joined Hartwick College in 1986, when he completed the course work for the PhD at New School University.  He teaches Micro and Macroeconomics, International Economics, American Economic History, and Classical Political Economy.  His research interests in economics concentrate on government policies and economic development from the seventeenth century to the present.  Dr. Malone has authored and collaborated on three books.  He co-edited an anthology of selections from Adam Smith’s works, The Essential Adam Smith (Norton, 1986), with Robert L. Heilbroner.  His second book, Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860 (Greenwood, 1998), recasts our understanding of the development of the American frontier before 1860 and demonstrates that the federal government constructed roads and canals and improved rivers and harbors before settlers and railroads "conquered the West."  A third book, Learning Interdependence (University of South Carolina, 2001), was recently completed with Hartwick colleagues David Bachner and Mary Snider.  This interdisciplinary text explores the educational value of month-long international study-abroad programs for first-year college students.  Dr. Malone has been honored as a Carnegie Scholar (2001/02) by the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) and served as President of the Economic and Business Historical Society (2000/01).

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