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James Hornsten is a Professor of Instruction in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. He earned his PhD from Northwestern University in 2003. Hornsten serves on the American Economic Association’s Committee on Economic Education and the board of the National Economics Teaching Association. He has co-organized national conferences on teaching economics, including the last three AEA Conferences on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE). He was awarded the 2017 Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award and the 1998 WCAS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. He has taught over one hundred courses at Northwestern, primarily in microeconomics, industrial economics, monopoly (antitrust & regulation), and business strategy.