John earned his PhD from the University of Tennessee in 1987 and came to TCU that same year. His areas of specialty are international economics, macroeconomics, and contemporary schools of thought. John’s main contribution to the scholarly literature has been in the area of exchange rate determination, where he broke from convention by shifting the focus from bilateral trade flows to financial capital movements. That work, based on the insights of economist John Maynard Keynes and psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, has been called “seminal” and “pioneering.” His most recent research examines the causes of the business cycle and is unique in that it highlights the role of systemic factors rather than external shocks. A volume based on his work is forthcoming from the Cambridge University Press. It applies the theory to the post-World War Two U.S. economy and offers policy solutions. He has over fifty journal articles, numerous chapters, three books, and two edited volumes.

In addition to scholarship, John has served as department chair, executive director of the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics and lead editor for World Economic Review. He is a frequent speaker for civic groups where he enjoys translating complex economic concepts into language that the lay public can easily understand, an interest that also led to a blog at Forbes.com called Pragmatic Economics and a YouTube series entitled The Cowboy Economist. John is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion and has co-taught Introduction to Women and Gender Studies, co-created and co-taught The Economics of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, earned certifications in both TCU’s and Columbia University’s DEI programs, and serves on the AddRan DEI Committee. John has earned the Deans’ Award for Teaching and for Research and Creative Activity and he has been the Social Science nominee for the Chancellor’s Award six times.