Dr. Tom Scheiding

Department of Business
Elizabethtown College
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
1.717.361.6046 (office)
scheidingt@etown.edu _____________________________________________________________
EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Economics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (2006)
M.A. Economics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (2001)
B.A. Economics, Philosophy, Knox College, Galesburg, IL (1999)

TEACHING INTERESTS:


Economics of Science, Labor Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Public Finance, History of Economic Thought, and Health Economics

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:


Assistant Professor, Elizabethtown College
August 2007-present

Taught multiple sections of the following courses:
Principles of Microeconomics, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008
Principles of Macroeconomics, Fall 2007 and Fall 2008
Intermediate Macroeconomics, Spring 2008
Intermediate Microeconomics, Fall 2008
The Economics of Work & Desire (First-Year Studies course), Fall 2008
Independent study with one student in Intermediate Microeconomic theory, Fall 2007

Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University
July 2006-August 2007

Taught multiple sections of the following courses:
Principles of Economics, Fall 2006 and Spring 2007
Intermediate Microeconomics, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Summer 2007
Intermediate Macroeconomics, Spring 2007, Summer 2007
Public and Private Pensions and Labor Market Outcomes, Fall 2006

Instructor, Saint Louis University
August 2005-June 2006

Taught two sections of each of the following courses:
Principles of Economics, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Summer 2006
Intermediate Microeconomics, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Summer 2006


PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES:


Discussant, Teaching Economics session, American Economic Association Annual Meetings, January 2008

Teaching Innovations Program in Economics, American Economic Association and National Science Foundation, June 2006

“Teaching in Economics” practicum course, Professor Thomas R. Swartz, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2003

National Science Foundation Workshop on Classroom Experiments in Economics at the College of William and Mary, May 2002


RESEARCH INTERESTS:


Economics of Science, Labor Economics, and Public Finance

DISSERTATION:

T. Scheiding, Paying to Publish – Using the Page Charge to Fund the Scholarly Communication Process. Advisor: Philip Mirowski.

PUBLICATIONS:

T. Scheiding, Explaining the Inability of Economists to Practice what they Preach: The Funding of the American Economic Review with Author Charges, Forthcoming in The Journal of Economic Methodology.

T. Scheiding, Book review of “The Making of an Economist, Redux” by David Colander. Forthcoming in Journal of Economics.

T. Scheiding, Book review of “When Work is Not Enough: State and Federal Policies to Support Needy Workers” by Robert P. Stoker and Laura Wilson. Forthcoming in Review of Social Economy.

T. Scheiding, The Role of Human Capital in Wealth Accumulation, University Avenue Undergraduate Journal of Economics (Volume 3, No. 1), 2000
http://www.econ.ilstu.edu/uauje/PDF's/ issue2000/Wealth_Accumulation.pdf
Awarded Virginia L. Owen Prize as one of the outstanding papers of the year.

W. Testa, S. Sen, and T. Scheiding, Resources, Outcomes, and Funding of Public Schools, Chicago Fedletter (September, 1999) http://www.chicagofed.org/publications/fedletter/1999/cflsep99_145b.pdf

REVISED AND RESUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS:

T. Scheiding, Paying for Physics Knowledge One Page at a Time, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROCESS:

T. Scheiding, The Chemical Foundation and the Financing of the Scholarly Communication Process in Physics and Chemistry. To be submitted to Isis.

T. Scheiding, The National Science Foundation and Economics. To be submitted to Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

T. Scheiding, Rethinking Government Paternalism with Defined Contribution Pension Plans. To be submitted to Eastern Economic Journal.

RESEARCH GRANTS:

American Heritage Center. Grant from the University of Wyoming. 2008. Archival work to make use of the Francis Garvan papers.

Elizabethtown College. Grant from the Dean's Office. 2007. Archival work to trace out the influence of the Chemical Foundation on the disciplines of physics and chemistry in the mid-twentieth century.

Duke University. Grant from the Provost’s Office through the Department of Economics. 2005. Archival work to conduct a history of the page charge pricing mechanism in economics.

American Institute of Physics. Grant-in-Aid program for the Center for the History of Physics. 2004. Archival work to conduct a history of the page charge pricing mechanism in physics.

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:

The Making of an Undergraduate Economic Major in a Business Department, Southern Economic Association, Grand Hyatt Hotel (Washington, DC), November 2008.

The Influence of the Chemical Foundation on the Research and Scholarly Communication Process in Physics and Chemistry, History of Science Society, William Penn Hotel (Pittsburgh, PA), November 2008

The Chemical Foundation as Research Benefactor in the Interwar Period, Missouri Valley Economic Association, Millennium Hotel (Saint Louis, MO), October 2008

Financing Research in Economics in the Twentieth Century, Department of Economics faculty brown bag, American University (Washington, DC), April 2008

Reading Between the Lines: The Financing of AEA Publications and the Rise of Neoclassicism, Missouri Valley Economic Association, Kansas City Marriott Country Club (Kansas City, KS), October 2007

Government Paternalism and the Default Asset in a Defined Contribution Pension Plan, Eastern Economics Association, Crowne Plaza Manhattan (New York, NY), February 2007

Author Charges and the Scholarly Communication Process in Economics, “History of Economics Society Meetings,” History of Economics Society, Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA), June 2006

Using the Page Charge to Fund Scholarly Communication, “Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meetings,” Society for Social Studies of Science, Hilton Pasadena (Pasadena, CA), October 2005

The Consequences of an Author Funded Electronic Era of Scholarly Communication, “Mephistos Conference on the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine,” Brown University Committee on Science and Technology Studies, Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island), March 2005.

Towards an Understanding of Journals in Economics, “History of Economics Society Annual Meetings,” History of Economics Society, Duke University (Durham, North Carolina), July 2003.

Why Does the Government Want to Promote One Form of Electronic Publishing in the Natural Sciences?, “Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meetings,” Society for Social Studies of Science, Hilton Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI), October 2002.

Funding and the Transition to Electronic Publishing, “Erasmus University Summer School,” Erasmus Center in the History of Management and Economics, Erasmus University (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), June 2002

Comparative Analysis of Scholarly Communication Practices, “European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy Annual Meetings,” European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, University of Siena (Siena, Italy), November 2001

SUPERVISED HONORS PROJECTS:

2007-2008:

William Hamilton, Sustainable African Fund for Education (SAFE), Department of Business, Elizabethtown College

Brian Rossell, A Rise in Minimum wage: Examining its Effect on Worker's Welfare, Department of Business, Elizabethtown College

Vanessa Stence, An Examination of Macroeconomic Variables in China, Department of Business, Elizabethtown College

SERVICE:

Local Economy Center, Franklin and Marshall College, 2008-present

Resources and Planning Committee, Elizabethtown College, 2008-present

Co-editor and contributor, Oyster, Department of Business publication issued bi-annually, 2007-present

Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Elizabethtown College exploratory committee, 2007-present

Media interviews
Lancaster Intelligencer, “A Sweet Side to Growing Pains,” October 15, 2007
CBS 21 (Harrisburg), “What a Possible Recession Means,” January 21, 2008

Sigma Nu Alumni Advisory Board, Finance Advisor, January 2008-present

Scoring judge, Mock Trial, Elizabethtown College

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:

Associate Editor for Work Options for Mature Americans. University of Notre Dame Press. Forthcoming. November 2003 – June 2004.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Economics Association
Eastern Economics Association
History of Economics Society
Society for Social Studies of Science
History of Science Society
Phi Beta Kappa