William A. McEachern began teaching large classes of economic principles when he joined the University of Connecticut faculty in 1973. In 1980, he started offering teaching workshops around the country and, in 1990, created The Teaching Economist, a newsletter that focuses on making teaching more effective and more fun.

His research has appeared in a variety of journals, including Economic Inquiry, National Tax Journal, Journal of Industrial Economics, Public Choice, and Quarterly Review of Economics and Business. His books include Managerial Control and Performance and Economics: A Contemporary Introduction, a college textbook now in its sixth edition. That textbook has also appeared in an Australian edition, a Spanish edition, and an Indonesian edition. A Chinese edition will be published shortly.

Professor McEachern has advised federal, state, and local governments on policy matters and has appeared in media such as the New York Times, London Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, USA Today, CBS MarketWatch.com, Voice of America, Now with Bill Moyers, and Reader’s Digest.

In 1984, Professor McEachern won the University of Connecticut Alumni Association’s Faculty Award for Distinguished Public Service and in 2000 won the Association’s Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. He is the only person in University of Connecticut history to win both awards.

He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, earned an undergraduate degree in the honors program from College of the Holy Cross, served three years as an Army officer, and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia.