Dr. Anthony Patrick O’Brien, award-winning researcher and professor. Tony O’Brien is a professor of economics at Lehigh University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. Tony has taught principles of economics for more than twenty years, in both small honors and large sections classes. He received the Lehigh University Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. O’Brien was formerly the director of the Diamond Center for Economic Education and was named a Dana Foundation Faculty Fellow and Lehigh Class of 1961 Professor of Economics. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. Tony’s research has dealt with issues such as the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry, the development of U.S. trade policy, the sources of U.S. economic competitiveness, the causes of the Great Depression, and the causes of white—black income differences. Dr. O’Brien’s research has been published in leading journals, including Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, American Economic Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His research has been supported by grants from private foundations and government agencies.