Tony Lima

"Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again." From John Maynard Keynes, "The Theory of Money and the Foreign Exchanges"

Back off man -- I'm a scientist." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"

"[In one sense] we are all Keynesians now; [in another sense] no one is any longer a Keynesian."
- Milton Friedman, Time magazine.  Discussion available by clicking here.

[I look forward to the day when economists will be] "humble, competent people, on a level with dentists."
– John Maynard Keynes, Essays in Persuasion. (Thanks to Prof. Alan Blinder for taking the time to send me the source of this quotation.)

“If we knew what we were doing we wouldn’t call it research.” – attributed to Albert Einstein

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For a detailed curriculum vita, click here.

Many people are having problems figuring out what went wrong with the U.S. economy in late 2008.  The Chicago Public Radio show “This American Life” published two episodes that do as good a job of explaining what went wrong as any I’ve read.  Click here for part 1, then click here for part 2.  (Both links are to pdf files, about 300K each.)

To download an Excel workbook that shows how I calculate grades in my classes click here .

Winter, 2010

Economics 3107-01 (Global Economic Analysis, class meets 6 – 9:30 pm Mondays)

Economics 3107-03 (Global Economic Analysis, class meets 12:00 – 1:10 pm MWF))

Economics 3310 (Money & Banking)

Fall, 2009
Economics 2301 (Principles of Microeconomics)

Economics 4590 (Information Economics)

Economics 4700 (International Trade)

Instructions for downloading and printing Powerpoint slides: click here

Spring, 2001:
Economics 6896 (Research Methods)
Introduction to SAS (web page) or click here to download as a Word document.

Professor of Economics, California State University, Hayward
25800 Carlos Bee Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94542
Office: Valley Business and Technology Center room 434
Phone: (510) 885-3889
E-mail: tony.lima@csueastbay.edu

I am professor of economics at California State University, Hayward. My current research interests include:

· An empirical study of the relationship between price and quality in the California wine industry. For more information about my wine research, click here.

· A study of the most cost-effective methods of incorporating internet technology into the principles of economics curriculum. Click here for a pdf version of our 2007 paper on this subject (with Nan Maxwell).

Got tax problems?  Click here to read reviews of tax software and web sites.  Now updated for the 2005 tax year.  (I did not write these reviews for the 2006 tax year.)

Click here for a picture of my wife Norma.

One way Enron turned debt into revenue:  click here

Need some help understanding today's stock market?  Click here for some tips.

Something else to worry about when using the web: click here

The dark, ugly side of faculty merit pay:  click here (68K GIF file)

For those who are interested in my thoughts about computers, click here (180K GIF file). The Wall Street Journal recently ran a commentary about gurus:  click here (70K GIF file).

People often ask me, "What's a database?"  Click here for the answer (12K GIF file).

Personally, I'm a fan of the Stanford baseball team. Click the logo to go to their home page.

I’m also a card-carrying chile-head. I recently perfected a recipe for Chipotle Kung Pao Chicken. click here .  Those interested in a seasonal fall recipe might want to try pumpkin and turkey chili instead.

Click here for a virtual tour of my late wife Gloria’s pilgrimage to Tibet in 1998.

Interested in electronic commerce? Click here for a story that will interest you.

Here's a fun cartoon about the Euro. Warning: 180K GIF file. If you can handle that, click here.