Dr. William McColloch

William McColloch earned his B.A. in economics at Bard College, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Utah. He previously taught at Lewis and Clark College, along with Westminster College, and the University of Utah before joining the Keene State faculty in 2014.

At Keene State, he is presently teaching courses in the history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics, and econometrics.

His articles have appeared in the Journal of Economic Issues, The Review of Keynesian Economics, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, and the Review of Radical Political Economics.

His chapter exploring the lasting impact of Robert Lucas on contemporary macroeconomics appears in A Brief History of Economic Thought (2022). An interview concerning the chapter, and the book project is available here: "The Rational Expectations School."

His most recent working paper, available through Centro Piero Sraffa at Roma Tre University, is "From Regulation to Deregulation and (Perhaps) Back: A Peculiar Continuity in the Analytical Framework." The paper suggests that Institutionalist authors such as John Commons operated with a fundamentally marginalist theory of value and distribution, and that this engagement is a central explanation for the ultimate ascendancy of neoclassical economics, and the limitations of the regulatory environment that emerged in the Progressive Era.