The Department of Economics produces research identifying national and state economic trends that inform the policy debate.
We work in conjunction with the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research and the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy.
Celeste Carruthers
Celeste Carruthers is an associate professor in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research. Recent and ongoing projects examine the effect of financial aid on college choices, career and technical education and the consequences of segregated schools in the early 20th-century United States.
Don Bruce
“The issue has always been tax fairness for us. Online sales and purchases from brick-and-mortar retailers should be treated the same, and this is 'absolutely a win' for physical retailers in making up a longstanding disadvantage."
Supreme Court internet tax ruling upends game for Knoxville Stores, online sellers
Knoxville News Sentinel
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Boyd Center Professor Named First Female Editor-in-Chief of Economics Journal
Carruthers' duties will include managing submissions, coordinating special issues and promoting the journal.