Dr. Gregory Richardson

Ph.D., Cornell University; M.A., Cornell University; B.A., Cornell University.

Teaching Interests:

• Economics( Economics of Social Issues, Principles of Micro- and Macro-Economics, Intermediate Micro- and Macro-Economics, Public Economics, Managerial Economics, Comparative Economic Systems, International Economics)
• Quantitative Business Methods (Business Statistics, Spreadsheet Modeling)
• Inter-Disciplinary (Theory of Games, Global Citizenship [team-taught])
• Graduate-level (Managerial Economics, Quantitative Analysis, and Operations Management in the MBA program; Developing Models of Decision-Making in the MA-Leadership program)

Business Experience:

• University of Kentucky, Assistant Professor

• Shorter College, Associate Professor
• Shorter College, Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Economics

Personal Experience:

Dr. Richardson was born in Brisbane, Australia. He has been married for 27 years and his wife, Shirley, is a CPA and the CFO for Murphy-Harpst Children Centers in Cedartown. He has one son Adam who double majored in Mathematics and Physics from Rhodes College and received a Masters degree in Mathematics from Vanderbilt.

Dr. Richardson is a member at First Christian Church of Rome and a current Elder, Chairman of Leadership Board, and Sunday school teacher. Hobbies include playing the violin and classical guitar. He has also sung and played the viola da gamba with the Roman Renaissance Singers. His favorite exercise these days is biking.

“All of my educational experiences before coming to Shorter University had been at larger institutions – even my high school was much larger than Shorter! Over the years I’ve come to treasure the experience of seeing some of the same students repeatedly, getting to know them and getting to see them develop intellectually, and in other ways as well.

I’ve also enjoyed the challenge of teaching a wide variety of courses, including many that are well outside the areas I studied and specialized in as a student or as a young economist. As a result I’ve come to appreciate the breadth of Economics, and its unique depth and importance as an academic discipline.

It’s also been a treat for me to develop friendships and working relationships with professors in fields as varied as Accounting, Biology, History and Music, which probably wouldn’t have happened anyplace else.”

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