Robert Averitt is a Professor Emeritus of Economics. He joined the Department of Economics at Smith in 1961 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. He served as Chair of the Department from 1967 to 1971 and again from 1979 to 1983. He regularly taught the undergraduate course on the History of Economic Thought at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst between 1980 and 1990, and was a Visiting Professor of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas during the academic year 1977-78. He was Director of American Studies at Smith in 1996-97. From 1993 until 1997 he held the Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Chair in American Studies. His best-known publication is The Dual Economy, W.W. Norton, 1968. He currently teaches Introductory Microeconomics, History of Economic Thought, and Money and Banking.

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