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Carlos Asarta

Carlos J. Asarta is the Bank of America Professor and James B. O’Neill Director of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware. Professor Asarta also serves as the University’s Faculty Athletics Representative and as President of the Delaware Council on Economic Education. He holds master’s and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His scholarly work focuses on the areas of economic education, technology in the classroom, and financial literacy. His research has been published in academic journals such as the AEA Papers and Proceedings, Journal of Economic Education, Internet and Higher Education, and Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. Dr. Asarta is the recipient of several teaching, service, and research awards including the Henry H. Villard Research Award from the National Association of Economic Educators, the Lerner College Outstanding Outreach/Service Award from the University of Delaware, or the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska Outstanding Educator of the Year Award.

Dr. Asarta narrated many of the English-language videos and all of the Spanish-language videos. He is lead author for the microeconomics content of Asarta/Butters.

Roger Butters

Dr. Roger B. Butters is the Walter Williams Chair in Free Market Economics and an Associate Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College.  He received his B.A. in Economics and Portuguese from Brigham Young University, a M.S. from the Marriot School of Management, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis. An accomplished author, Dr. Butters has published articles on the assessment of knowledge, teacher education, online vs. paper and pencil testing, and real-estate spill overs, to name a few.  He is the author of the first ever all digital product for teaching economics at the college level and has also authored several standardized tests for measuring economic knowledge.  Roger has received many awards recognizing his work, including the Phillip Saunders “Best Research Paper” award, and the “Rising Star” award, to name a few.  The former President of the Nebraska Council on Economic Education, he was given the title of “Admiral” in the “Navy of the Great State of Nebraska” for his work promoting economic literacy.


Dr. Butters narrated over half of the English-language videos and is lead author for the macroeconomics content of Asarta/Butters.