Kapnick BIP FACULTY > Kapnick BIP Faculty Committee
The principal resource for the Harvey Kapnick Business Institutions Program is a community of scholars whose teaching interests cross interdisciplinary lines. Faculty teaching in the program include some of the College's most respected teachers and scholars. The Program Committee for Business Institutions includes:
- Ronald Braeutigam
- Bruce C. Carruthers
- Peter Hayes
- Carol Heimer
- Leon Moses
- Ben Ross Schneider
- Mark Witte
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Ronald Braeutigam
braeutigam@northwestern.edu |
Associate Provost and Harvey Kapnick Professor of Businss Institutions. He teaches microeconomics, industrial organization, and public policy in the Department of Economics. He is past-president of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the Northwestern University Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award, and designation as a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. His most recent book is Microeconomics: An Integrated Approach, published in 2002.
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Bruce G. Carruthers
b-carruthers@northwestern.edu |
Associate Professor of Sociology, does research on American and English bankruptcy law, economic institutions, and the historical formation of capital markets in 18th-century England. His books include The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States (1998), City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution (1996), and Economy/Society: Markets, Meanings, & Social Structure. He teaches sociology of organizations and markets, hierarchies and democracies.
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Peter Hayes
p-hayes@northwestern.edu |
Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies and Professor of History and German; teaches modern German and European history. He has written two books about large German corporations (IG Farben and Degussa) and their relatioonship with the Hitlerian Reich and is now completeting a work entitled Profits and Persecution: German Big Business & the Holocaust.
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Carol Heimer
c-heimer@northwestern.edu |
Associate Professor of Sociology, teaches courses on organizations and markets, hierarchies and democracies. Her research is on institutions for managing risk. Her book Reactive Risk studies the insurance industry. Her newest book, For the Sake of the Children, examines the social organization of responsibility for critically ill newborns.
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Leon Moses
leon1@northwestern.edu |
Robert E. and Emily King Professor of Business Institutions, focuses his research and teaching on microeconomics; regulation, transportation, and logistics; and urban and regional economics: His publications include Economics Deregulation and Safety in the Airline and Motor Carrier Industries (1988) and Transportation of Hazardous Materials (1992), which he edited. He also published extensively in such journals as Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, Journal of Urban Economics, and Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
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Ben Ross Schneider
brs @northwestern.edu |
Associate Professor, researches economic policy, development, bureaucratic politics, and democracy in Latin America. He is co-editor of Business and the State in Developing Countries (1997) and author of Business Politics in 20th Century Latin America (2004).
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Mark Witte
mwitte@northwestern.edu |
Distinguished Senior Lecturer and the Director of Business Institutions and Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Economics. Mark teaches Introduction to Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Money & Banking, Environmental Economics, and International Finance. Mark's research is on consumption spending on consumer durables, the effects of Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency rules, and the economics of gerrymandering. He is the current director of the Business Institutions Program.
