Welcome to Dennis Coates' Homepage


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This site is constantly under construction. Eventually it will contain links to class materials for my courses at UMBC including handouts, homeworks, and past exams, material related to my current research projects, and links to related web sites.


Follow this link to Dennis Coates' UMBC Economics Bulletin Board.

The board contains announcements of interest to students in my classes and to economics students at UMBC generally.
 

Follow this link to my back up virtual office.

This site is intended solely for the use of my students when the chat feature of our online course materials is not operating.

Not an economics site! Aaaackkkkk!

Even flightless water fowl with herring breath can find something useful here,

if they are studying economics!
So, if economics and economists seem like aliens to you,  some of the following links might be of interest.

 Links to materials related to courses I teach:

If you are interested in further information on economics courses at UMBC, or the Department of Economics, its faculty, working papers and other economics related links press Economics at UMBC.

If you are interested in my research, here are drafts of papers in progress.

Links that may be of interest to students are:

Economics News Group

National Budget Simulation

Federal Budget and Economic Report of the President

The following links may be of special interest to students in public finance.

Tax Foundation

Citizens for Tax Justice

Brookings Institution

Resources for the Future

Electronic Policy Network

Economic Policy Institute

American Enterprise Institute
For an online version of "All the News That's Fit to Print" try

The New York Times

In Association with Amazon.com

Click the atom to check out some links to low level radioactive waste management issues. 

 Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations might be of interest to those curious about the seminal work in modern economics.
 
 

Feeling a bit like this poor fellow?

Then you might enjoy following him to some diverting sites.


I was interviewed by a reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Follow this link to see his article on sports franchises and economic development.

Follow one of these links for information about me or  write to me. Please comment on this page by sending me . Include information about yourself. For example, indicate which of my classes you are in, if you are an Econ major but not one of my students, or if you are from outside UMBC, if you are a student or faculty or, perhaps, just surfing the net. Thanks.

The doorman tells me that my site has helped  visitors/students/lost souls in their quest for economics knowledge/the meaning of life/a good grade in one of my courses.

By the way, I consider frames to be a plague on the web. Accordingly, I display the anti-frames logo.

Finally, my friend Ester created this flower and I thought it beautiful. I hope you enjoy it too.