Raymond J. Ring Jr.

Primary Teaching Areas (Point to links for course web sites.)

• Principles of Microeconomics (ECON 201)
• Intermediate Macroeconomics (ECON 302)
• Money and Banking (ECON 330)
• History of Economic Thought (ECON 403)
• Economics of State and Local Governments (ECON 432)
• Honors Seminar (UHON 390 Distributive Justice)
• Honors Seminar (UHON 390 History of Economic Thought)
• Public Finance (ECON 433)
• IdEA Capstone (IDEA 410)

Professional and Research Interests

• Economics of state and local governments
• History of economic thought
• Economics and public policy

Previous Experience

• Director, University Honors Program
• Research on South Dakota tax issues
• Economist, Joint Committee on Taxation

Recent Publications and Presentations

• "South Dakota Property Assessment: The Past, The Present, and Constitutional Amendment D," South Dakota Business Review, Vol LXV, No. 1 (September 2006).

• (with Chad Schuldt and Kelsi Powell)  "South Dakota, the Sales Tax, and the Internet: What's Happening?  What Might Happen?" South Dakota Business Review, Vol LXII, No. 1 (September 2003).
   
• "Consumers' Share and Producers' Share of the General Sales Tax," National Tax Journal, Vol. LII, No. 1 (March 1999).
   
• "Voter Support for Property Tax Limitation Measures: A 'Longitudinal' Analysis," Midwest Economics Association, Kansas City, MO, March 1997.
   
• "The Distribution of South Dakota's Tax Burden," for Executive Board of Legislative Research Council, January 1995.
   
• "Exempting Residential Construction from the Contractors' Excise Tax," for South Dakota Home Builders Association, January 1995.
   
• "The 1994 Initiative to Limit South Dakota Property Taxes," South Dakota Business Review, Vol. 52, No.4 (June 1994).
   
• "How Comprehensive is the General Sales Tax on Consumption?" Missouri Valley Economic Association, St. Louis, MO, February 1994.
   
• "Consumers' Share and Producers' Share of the General Sales Tax," National Tax Association Annual Conference on Taxation, St. Paul, MN, November 1993.
   
• "Is South Dakota's State Revenue System 'Balanced and Moderate'?" SouthDakotaBusinessReview, Vol. 50, No. 5 (September 1992).