Dr James Thornton

Professor of Economics

Dr. Thornton joined the department in 1991.  He has a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.  His major areas of academic interest are Health Economics, Industrial Organization, and Econometrics.  Dr. Thornton teaches undergraduate and graduate health economics, undergraduate industrial organization, graduate microeconomic theory, and undergraduate and graduate econometrics classes.  He also teaches the microeconomics half of the Principles of Economics sequence.

For details see Dr. Thornton academic vita and jim-publications.pdf