Empowering Economics Students
Economics: turning resources into prosperity.


From scarcity to abundance, economics explains it all.
Economics is the study of how societies allocate scarce resources to meet unlimited wants, guiding us to understand the trade-offs, incentives, and impacts of our decisions on both individual and global scales.
Bill Crowder, PhD, has been a prominent figure in economics since earning his doctorate from Arizona State University in 1992, where he was honored with the William H. Barchilon Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student in Economics. Joining the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) faculty the same year, he advanced to Associate Professor by 1998 and Full Professor by 2008.
Professor Crowder’s academic interests span Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Finance, and Time Series Econometrics. He imparts his expertise through courses in International Finance, Time Series Econometrics, and Money and Banking at both graduate and undergraduate levels. His dedication to teaching excellence has been acknowledged with the ODE Outstanding Graduate Professor Award in 1996 and the COBA Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in 2006.
