Faculty
Donald Bellante
Professor
CONTACT
Office: CMC 208K
Phone: (813) 974-6543
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BIO
Don Bellante is Professor of Economics at the ±«Óãtv where he teaches courses in The Global Economic Environment of Business, Labor Economics, the Economics of Organization and the History of Economic Thought. He holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University. His research interests include Labor Market Analysis, Comparative Labor Market Institutions, Migration and Immigration. His research has been published in a variety of journals including the American Economic Review, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Labor Research, the International Journal of Manpower, the Journal of Financial Research, and the Journal of Human Resources. He serves or has served on several Editorial Boards including the Southern Economic Journal, the Journal of Labor Research, and the Review of Austrian Economics. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of the James Madison Institute and the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
TEACHING Philosophy
My approach to teaching follows from my approach to economic analysis. The purpose of economic analysis is to make understandable a real world that is too complex to be understood without simplification, generalization, theorizing or whatever else we choose to call use of the deductive method in Economics. It is an irony of science that the if we are to understand important aspects of the real world (of Physics, Economics or anything else), we must abstract from other aspects of the real world that, if accurately described in detail, would prevent us from understanding the phenomena we are interested in. This is no more or less than what a road map does. A road map is a serious abstraction from reality (it is flat, it leaves out trees, and the roads are wider than the cities, etc.). Yet the purpose of these abstractions from reality is to make understandable to the inexperienced t