Thomas Hogan is Assistant Professor of Economics at West Texas A&M University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Macroeconomics and Money & Banking. Dr. Hogan earned his Ph.D. in Economics from George
Mason University and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Hogan wrote his dissertation on money, banking, and finance. He also specializes in international development and
Austrian economics. His research interests include commercial banking,
financial institutions, and monetary theory. Dr. Hogan has worked for
Merrill Lynch's commodity trading group and as a derivatives trader for
hedge funds in the U.S. and Europe. He was a research fellow at the Cato Institute and is a former consultant to the
World Bank.