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Scott McConnell is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Eastern Oregon University, teaching in both the Economics and the Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) programs. His research interests are in ecological economics, the history of money, modern money theory, and functional finance. He has published in the Journal of Economic Issues and the Review of Political Economy. He is studying rural issues in the U.S. through Eastern Oregon University’s Center for Rural Studies, where he is a research fellow. A current project through the center that Scott is working on with one of his students is a jobs program targeted at the relatively impoverished rural regions of the U.S. Scott teaches History of Economic Thought, Macroeconomics, Money, Financial Markets and Institutions, and Finance classes at Eastern Oregon. Scott is a member of the Association for Evolutionary Economics and Association of Social Economics. He received his BA in Economics from Portland State University, the MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Missouri – Kansas City.