Dr. Michael Szpindor Watson

Dr. Michael Szpindor Watson
Dr. Michael Szpindor Watson
Director, Philosophy Politics & Economics; Assistant Professor of Economics,
Economics

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Examples of the classes taught by Dr. Michael Szpindor Watson:
  • Introduction to Microeconomics
  • Introduction to Macroeconomics
  • Money and Banking
  • Business Economy and Catholic Social Thought
  • Political Economy
  • B.A., Indiana University, 2010
  • Ph.D. Economics, George Mason University
  • Sharing the Profit by Grattan Brown and Michael V. Szpindor Watson (2020)
  • Michael V. Szpindor Watson (2015). Mueller and Mises: Integrating the Gift and ‘Final Distribution’ within Praxeology. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 18 no. 2 Summer 2015

 

Working Papers

  • A Cheer for Innes: Incorporating Inter-Temporal Barter into Menger’s Account on the Emergence of Money
  • Commodity-Money or Credit-Money: A Case Study of the Shekel in Ancient Babylonia
  • Commodity-Money or State-Money: Menger vs. Knapp in Ancient Lydia
  • Paradisus Iudaeorum:  Jews between Peace and Persecution in the towns and cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1300-1795
  • Aquinas, Mises, and Wojtyła: Are Praxeology and Thomistic Personalism Compatible?

 

Presentations

  • “Aquinas, Mises, and Wojtyła: Are Praxeology and Thomistic Personalism Compatible?” Hildebrand Schulerkreis, (July 2017)
  • “A Cheer for Innes: Incorporating Inter-Temporal Barter into Menger’s Account on the Emergence of Money” and “Commodity-Money or Credit-Money: A Case Study of the Shekel in Ancient Babylonia” Austrian Economics Research Conference, (March 2017)
  • “Paradisus Iudaeorum:  Jews between Peace and Persecution in the towns and cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1300-1795”
  • The Zdzislaw R. Zakrzewski Ninth Annual Kosciuszko Chair Conference, (November 2016)
  • Commodity-Money or Credit-Money: A Case Study of the Shekel in Ancient Babylonia” Institute for Humane Studies’ Research Colloquium, (October 2015)
  • “Mueller and Mises: Integrating the Gift and ‘Final Distribution’ within Praxeology.” Austrian Economics Research Conference, (March 2015)
  • “Temperature Shocks and the Persecutions and Expulsions of Jews in Towns in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth” Kosciuszko Chair Fourth Annual Spring Symposium, (March 2014)
  • Monetary Theory
  • History of Money and Banking
  • Polish History
  • Economic theory
  • The Catholic Intellectual Tradition

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