February 6, 2024
Economics Club presents 'What Taylor Swift, Mr. Beast and Gen Z Influencers can teach us about economics'
Submitted by Daniel D. Kuester
On Tuesday, Feb. 6, Dirk Mateer from the University of Texas will present "What Taylor Swift, Mr. Beast, and Gen Z Influencers Can Teach Us about Entrepreneurship and Economics." The talk is presented by the K-State Economics Club and will take place at 6:45 p.m. in Regnier Forum, 1117 Regnier Hall and is open to the public.
Mateer is a professor of instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of "Economics in the Movies," "Essentials of Economics," and "Principles of Economics." Dirk has been featured in the "Great Teachers in Economics" series and he was also the inaugural winner of the Economic Communicator Contest. While he was at Penn State, he received the George W. Atherton Award, the university's highest teaching award, and was voted the best overall teacher in the Smeal College of Business. While at the University of Arizona, he received the best large class lecture award in the Eller College of Management and the University's Koffler Teaching Prize, a quadrennial award for his contributions to economic education. He received the Kenneth Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award from the Southern Economic Association in 2021.