Dr. Roger B. Butters is a dynamic leader, lecturer and advocate for economic education who teaches in both the public and private sectors. The developer of online competitions and assessment websites that are used by thousands or students, educators, and researchers each year, Dr. Butters has extensive experience in applying technology to the classroom, and online education. Roger has taught seminars on economics and international finance at universities in the United States, Europe, and China. His primary research interests are in the fields of economic education and regional economics. A recipient of the Rising Star Award, in 2009, and the Philip Saunders Best Research Paper Award, in 2011, he was recently given the honorary title of Admiral in the Navy of the State of Nebraska for his work promoting economic literacy. A former equities trader with Fidelity Investments, Dr. Butters holds a Master of Managerial Economics from the Marriot School of Management and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California Davis. A Professor with the Foundation for Teaching Economics, and past president of the Nebraska Council on Economic Education, Roger is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College.Dr. Butters narrated over half of the English-language videos and is lead author for the macroeconomics content of Asarta/Butters.
