FACULTY• • • TILTON• • • [DIVISION OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS]

Contact Information: John Tilton, Research Professor Room 110, Engineering Hall Phone: 303.273.3485 Fax: 303.273.3416 e-mail: jtilton@mines.edu Click here for a list of publications.

Education:
BA, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
MA, Economics, Yale University
PhD, Economics, Yale University

Teaching Philosophy:

Professor Tilton emphasizes the use of sound economic principles to analyze policy issues and problems confronting firms, governments, and other organizations. His courses demonstrate the practical insights produced by interdisciplinary research, research that entails economic analyses that explicitly take into account the institutional and technological relationships governing the behavior of firms and other economic actors in the marketplace.

He believes that formal education is a short but formative part of a life-long learning process. Thus, the formal component of education must encourage and foster the informal learning that takes place after leaving the university. This means that on campus learning both in and out of the classroom should instill a sense of the excitement and intellectual challenge associated with scholarship.

Courses Taught:
EBGN311: Microeconomics
EBGN535: Economics of Metal Industries and Markets
EBGN590: Econometrics and Forecasting


Areas of Specialization:
Fields of Specialization:
Natural resource economics
Environmental economics
International trade
Industrial organization
Application areas:
Mining: economic and policy issues
Depletion and the availability of mineral commodities
Metal production, trade, and use
Recycling
Material substitution
Commodity markets
Mineral commodities, the environment, and sustainable development