Laurence Malone

Laurence J. Malone, Ph.D., is Professor of Economics at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. He teaches Micro and Macroeconomics, International Economic Policy, American Economic History, and Classical Political Economy. At Hartwick, he became the youngest recipient of the Margaret Bunn Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1993. The annual award is presented to a member of the faculty judged by students who graduated five years earlier as the most outstanding teacher at the college. In 2001 he was selected as a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL). 

Malone is the author of:  The Essential Adam Smith (with Robert L. Heilbroner, Norton, 1986), Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860 (Greenwood Press, 1998), and Learning Interdependence (with David Bachner and Mary Snider, University of South Carolina, 2001).

Malone’s research interests concentrate on government policies and economic development from the seventeenth century to the present. He has authored articles and book reviews on topics that range from the origins of match-making in the United States to the problem of broadband internet access in rural America. Prior to graduate school Malone worked for the New York State Assembly as Senior Research Associate for legislation on economic development. He is past Chair of the Board of the Economic and Business Historical Society, a national organization of economic and business historians.