CSWEP Board Member - Martha Olney
Martha L. Olney is Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught since 1992. Previously, she taught at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Stanford University. She received her B.S. in economics and mathematics from the University of Redlands (1978) and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley (1985).
Professor Olney teaches large-enrollment courses in Principles of Economics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, and U.S. Economic History, plus seminars in the Economics of Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Pedagogy. Honored several times for her excellence in teaching, Olney was chosen as a “Great Teacher in Economics” by the Stavros Center for Economic Education (2006), and is the recipient of Distinguished Teaching Awards from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1991) and the University of California, Berkeley (2003), and the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching awarded by the Economic History Association (1997).
Professor Olney is widely in demand as a textbook author. She is the co-author with J. Bradford DeLong of Macroeconomics, co-author with Paul Krugman and Robin Wells of Essentials of Economics, and author of Economics as a Second Language.
Her research focuses on consumer spending and indebtedness in the early twentieth century. She is the author of Buy Now, Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920s (University of North Carolina Press, 1991), and several economic history articles.
Martha Olney lives in El Cerrito, California with her partner, Rev. Esther Hargis, and their son.
