Faculty Profile
Tricia Hawks
Senior Lecturer in Economics (2012)
Contact Information
Althouse Hall Room 112
717-254-8801
Education
- B.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1992
- M.A., University of Connecticut, 1996
- Ph.D., 2002
2025-2026 Academic Year
Fall 2025
ECON 111 Intro to Microeconomics
A study of the fundamentals of economic analysis and of basic economic institutions, with particular emphasis upon consumer demand and upon the output and pricing decisions of business firms. The implications of actions taken by these decision-makers, operating within various market structures, upon the allocation of resources and the distribution of income are examined. Special attention is given to the sociopolitical environment within which economic decisions are made.
ECON 214 Behavioral Economics
This course introduces students to the relatively new field of behavioral economics in which the ideas of psychology, sociology and, to a lesser degree, neurobiology, are reintroduced to economic models. Predictions of economic behavior are reconsidered by replacing or augmenting traditional theoretical economic assumptions with more realistic assumptions based on real-world observed behavior and experimental results. Special attention is paid to how such changes affect our theory of markets, social welfare and public policy. Topics include nudge theory, biases and heuristics, prospect theory, concepts of happiness as well as numerous forms of 'mis-behaving'.