Contact information: Office: Mahar 431B Fall 2012 office hours:  MTW 11-noon Phone: 315-312-3484  E-mail (your best bet):  ranjit dot dighe at oswego dot edu

Courses I teach: 

• American Economic History Before 1900 (Eco 326, Fall semesters)

• Issues in American Economic History Since 1900 (Eco 327, Spring semesters)

• The Political Economy of Financial Crises (Eco 341, Fall semesters. Course page is on ANGEL.)
  

• Money and Banking (Eco 340, Spring semesters)

• Extracurricular but related: My blog on the economic and financial crisis, Blogging Through the Wreckage

• Principles of Macroeconomics (Eco 200, last taught in Spring 2000)

• Intermediate Macro Theory (Eco 300, last taught in Spring 2004 )

• The Economics of Baseball (Eco 383, last taught in Fall 2011)

• Introduction to Social Science (Honors 200, last taught in Fall 2004)
  

Professional information:

• Professor
• Economics Department Chair, September 2010 -
• Joined the Oswego faculty in 1997
• Ph.D. - Yale University, 1998
• B.A. - Oberlin College, 1987
• The obligatory resume
• I'm not a monetary economist, but I play one on TV . . .
• . . . and a sports economist on the radio

Professional links:

• Penfield Library
• Economic History Services
• Economic and Business Historical Society, including our 2011 conference program
• Resources for Economists on the Internet (Bill Goffe)
• The St. Louis Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED)
• The Statistical Abstract of the United States
• The statistical tables of the Economic Report of the President
• MSNBC News
• Financial Times
• Naked Capitalism
• Yahoo! Finance
• Google

More links:

• Pictures of the kid (I)
• Pictures of the kid (II)
• The rest of the out-of-date photo gallery, a recent mug shot, and the legendary shoulder-kitten shot
• Baseball, by way of ESPN
• NCAA March Madness, also by way of ESPN
• Baltimore Orioles baseball, via The Sun and Birds in the Belfry
• The Onion, a.k.a. America's Finest News Source

So, Ranjit, heard any good music lately?

• You mean besides Drive-By Truckers?
• Funny you should ask ...
• Or did you mean upcoming shows in upstate New York?
• PowerPop blog

More Listomania -- favorite movies of the last few years

• Oswego Film Group
• Rotten Tomatoes (compendium of movie reviews)

Books that made me laugh out loud