Calum Carmichael is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration.  He holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of Western Ontario, and a Masters in Public Affairs and Doctorate in Economics from Princeton University.

Teaching

• PADM 5112 — Macroeconomics for Policy Analysis
• PADM 5217 — Applied Microeconomic Policy Analysis
• PADM 5225 — Trade Policy
• PADM 5417 — Principles of Finance

Research

Since completing his doctorate, Professor Carmichael has conducted research in a range of fields, including trade policy and monetary policy.  Most recently, he has studied ways in which governments encourage or regulate the financial contributions that individuals and corporations provide charitable activities and non-profit organizations. 

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles

• “Managing munificence: the reform of naval finance in Classical Athens,” Historical Methods (Fall 2009).
• “Doing good better?  The differential subsidization of charitable contributions,” Policy and Society (August 2010).
• “Charity misplaced: the formation in common law of a deficient fiscal concept,” Charity Law & Practice Review (Spring 2011).
• “Dispensing charity: the deficiencies of an all-or-nothing fiscal concept,” Voluntas (June 2012).
• “Sweet and not-so-sweet charity: a case for treating contributions to different charities differently,” Public Finance Review (May 2012).

Manuscripts In Progress

• Chapter on the fiscal treatment of charity,  Routledge Companion on Philanthropy
• “Payment and power: fees and pledges in Roman North Africa”