Shawn Ritenour

Education

• Ph.D. Auburn University 
• B.A. Northwestern College

Areas of Research

• History of Economic Thought
• Cultural Economics
• Economic Expansion and Development
• Economic Policy

Courses

• Foundations of Economics
• Intermediate Macroeconomics
• History of Economic Thought
• Money and Banking
• Economic Expansion and Development

Selected Publications 

• The Mises Reader Unabridged (Auburn, AL: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2016). 
• Foundations of Economics: A Christian View (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2010).
• "The Federal Reserve: Reality Trumps Rhetoric," in David Howden and Joseph T. Salerno, eds. The Fed at One Hundred: A Critical View on the Federal Reserve System (Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 2014).
• "Fruitful Dominion: Genesis 1 and the Free Society," Journal of Faith and the Academy, Vol. V, No. 1 (Spring 2012).
• "Economists' Arguments for Government Arts Subsidies," Regent Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2011).
• “Samuelson and Rothbard: Two Texts and Two Legacies,” The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 2005): 71-94.
• “An Exploration of the Beckerian Theory of Time Costs: Symphony Concert Demand,” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 58, No. 4 (October 1999): 887-99. 
• “Wilhelm Roepke: A Humane Economist,” in Randall Holcombe, ed. 15 Great Austrian Economists (Auburn, Alabama: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999
• "How Subsidies Kill Symphonies," The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 1997.