Jay L. Zagorsky
Senior Lecturer
Boston University
Jay Zagorsky teaches at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. Since 1988, his teaching has spanned a wide range of levels from senior executives taking intensive classes to high school students encountering economic theories for the first time. He has taught giant lectures of over 450 students, classes of 50 and small seminars of fewer than 10.
From 1995 to 2018 he was a research scientist at Ohio State University, where he collected data as part of the National Longitudinal Surveys on income, wealth and life experiences of thousands of Americans. His personal finance research has been widely quoted in the media and has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News, Good Morning America, Scientific American and numerous other news outlets.
Besides publishing numerous scholarly articles, Zagorsky wrote the book "Business Information: Finding and Using Data in the Digital Age" for McGraw-Hill/Irwin and "Business Macroeconomics: A Guide for Managers, Traders and Practical People." More information on the macroeconomics book can be found at http://businessmacroeconomics.com/.
His personal blogs are at http://blogs.bu.edu/zagorsky/ and http://u.osu.edu/zagorsky.1/