Mark Howard

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Contact Info

mhoward2@springfield.edu
(413) 748-3220

Office

Room 212
Locklin Hall
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Department of Business Management

School of Arts and Sciences

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., 2007
Bachelor of Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., 1985

Mark Howard received a doctorate in economics from the University of Massachusetts in 2007. He joined the faculty at Springfield College in 2008 after teaching at Connecticut College for two years. He instructs in the following courses: Economics of Healthcare, Economics of Sports, Principles of Macroeconomics, and Principles of Microeconomics. In his research, Howard employs agent-based computational economics in a game theoretic framework, and looks forward to incorporating the same into his teaching at Springfield College.

Courses Taught

Principles of Economics
Economics of Healthcare
Money and Banking
Economics of Sports
The Economics of the Firm