Robert Garnett, Ph.D.
r.garnett@tcu.edu817-257-4693Scharbauer Hall 4101
Program Affiliations
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994
BA, Economics with Highest Honors, College of William and Mary, 1984
Courses Taught
Current
Contending Perspectives in Economics
Experimental Course: The Good Life (with Dr. Lisa Vanderlinden, Anthropology)
History of Economic Thought
Junior Honors Seminar
Principles of Microeconomics
Senior Honors Thesis
Previous
Capitalism and Socialism (University Honors colloquium, with Dr. Sam Arnold, Department
of Political Science)
Happiness (with Dr. Lisa Vanderlinden, Department of Sociology and Anthropology)
Callings: The Humanomics of Specialization (University Honors colloquium)
Senior Seminar in Economics
Mathematical Economics
Research Methods in Economics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Freshman Seminar, “Economics and Contemporary Issues”
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Macroeconomics (Honors)
Areas of Focus
History and Philosophy of Economics, Economics of Adam Smith, Economics of Happiness and Well-Being, Economics Education
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“College, Knowledge, and Class,” Rethinking Marxism 36: 348–366, 2024. -
“The Moral Ambiguity of the Invisible Hand,” Review of Austrian Economics 36: 115-123, 2023. -
“Smith after Samuelson: Care and Harm in a Socially Entangled World,” Forum for Social Economics 48 (2): 125-136, 2019. -
“Adam Smith’s Oikeiōsis Revisited,” Adam Smith Review, volume 10, 2017. -
“Ethics and Learning in Undergraduate Economics Education,” Considerations on Professional Economic Ethics: Views from the Economics Profession and Beyond, George DeMartino and Deirdre McCloskey (eds.): 714-733, Oxford University Press, 2016. -
Commerce and Community: Ecologies of Social Cooperation, Paul Lewis and Lenore Ealy, co-editors, Routledge, 2014.
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“Big Think: A Model for Critical Inquiry in Economics Courses” (with KimMarie McGoldrick), Journal of Economic Education, 44 (4): 389-398, 2013.
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Economic Pluralism, Erik Olsen and Martha Starr, co-editors, Routledge, 2009.
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Future Directions for Heterodox Economics, John Harvey, co-editor, University of Michigan Press, 2008. -
“Paradigms and Pluralism in Heterodox Economics,” Review of Political Economy 18 (fall): 521-546, 2006.
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What Do Economists Know? Routledge, 1999.
- “College, Knowledge, and Class,” Association for Economic and Social Analysis Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 2024
- “Adam Smith’s Invisible Economics,” Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy, Smith@300 Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 19-22, 2023
- “Specialization and Exchange in Adam Smith’s Humanomics,” History of Economics Society annual meetings, Minneapolis, June 2022
- “Calling and Knowing: Vocational Inquiry as Liberal Inquiry,” National Collegiate Honors Council annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2019
- “Smith after Samuelson: Care and Harm in a Socially Entangled World,” American Economic Association annual meetings, Atlanta, GA, 4-6 January, 2019
- “Meddling to Transgress” (with Lynn Hampton, Tymerra Coleman, Tamara Gilbert, and Michelle Nguyen), National Collegiate Honors Council annual meeting, Boston, MA, 7-11 November, 2018
- “After Samuelson: Liberal Education for Economists,” American Economic Association annual meetings, Boston, MA, 2-5 January, 2015
- Finalist, Honors Professor of the Year, 2023, 2024, and 2025
- Finalist, Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Teacher and Scholar, 2015
- Warren Samuels Prize, awarded by the Association for Social Economics, “Finding Ourselves in the Classroom: Reflexive Pedagogy for Economists,” January 2015
- Distinguished Faculty Lecture, “Give, Take, Learn: Adam Smith’s 21st Century Humanomics,” AddRan College of Liberal Arts, Texas Christian University, March 2014
- Deans’ Teaching Award, Texas Christian University, December 2013
- Phi Beta Kappa, College of William and Mary, 1983
Last Updated: August 17, 2026