Department of Economics
College of Arts & Sciences

Meet the Faculty

James Cicarelli, Ph.D. - Professor of Economics

Office: 600C, Schaumburg
Email: jcicarel@roosevelt.edu
Phone: (847) 619-4860
Hours: Mon 5-6 | Wed 4-5 | Thu 4-6 & by appointment Tue/Fri PM | Sat AM

Teaching Philosophy and Interests:

I firmly believe in the proverb "Tell me, I forget; show me, I remember; involve me, I understand." My classes are designed to engage students and get them involved in the teaching/ learning process. I give essay exams and ask students in all my classes to write three or four papers per semester.

My teaching interests focus primarily on the principles of macro- and microeconomics, statistics, and the graduate economics class required of MBA students. When the opportunity presents itself, I enjoy teaching the history of economic thought.

Publications and Professional Activities:

I am the author or co-author of four books, the most recent being Distinguished Women Economists (2003). My contributions to books have appeared in Foundations, A Reader for New College Students, Biographical Directory of the Council of Economic Advisers, An Executive's Guide to Econometric Forecasting, and several others.

I have published numerous professional articles in a variety of journals including Land Economics, the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Business Economics, the Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, the Journal of Macroeconomics, the New England Journal of Economics and Business, the Eastern Economics Journal, and the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.

I have authored many articles for popular magazines and journals including The Journal of College Admissions, the New Republic, the Midwest Quarterly, Management Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, insideHigherEd, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. I am a regular contributor to The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, having written short biographies of prominent economists and business professionals such as Merton Miller, Donald Regan, and Robert LeKechman. I am also a frequent presenter and discussant at the annual meeting of the Midwest Economics Association. Op-ed pieces I have authored have appeared in several newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

My consulting work focuses primarily on higher education. For the past 18 years I have been a peer evaluator for the Higher Learning Commission. I have also worked for the Minnesota Commission on Higher Education. To find references to my published works online, google "James Cicarelli".

Current Research:

I am in the process of finishing a lengthy article on "Economic Thought Among American Aboriginals Prior to 1492." I am also working with Steven Antler, a part-time faculty member here, on a book-length manuscript about the history of American economic thought.

Nine things you don't (want to?) know about your professor

• 10. 
• 9.  Once dated Marge Simpson
• 8.  Have been to Timbuktu
• 7.  Third person to scale Mt. Everest. Would have been first but stopped on the way up to have tea with the Dali Lama
• 6.  Was the bass player for the grunge rock bank Fecal Matter
• 5.  Participated in the August 1963 March on Washington
• 4.  Sat next to D. B. Cooper on Northwest Airlines infamous flight 305
• 3.  Won a bronze metal at the 1976 summer Olympics
• 2.  Refused the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
• 1.  Have a difficult time with numbers

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