Debbie Evercloud earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia. She is the founder of Aspenheart Economics and is a faculty member of Yorktown University and at an Internet-based MBA program. She also serves as a content developer in the economics curriculum for Addison-Wesley and Worth Publishing.
In her Ph.D. work at the University of Virginia, Dr. Evercloud investigated the early effects of American unionization on wage levels. Her other areas of research include the relationship between tax rates and work effort, and patterns of early twentieth-century commercial development in Chicago.
Dr. Evercloud's experience teaching economics in an online executive MBA curriculum enables her students at Yorktown University to maximize the resources of web-based education and enrich their understanding of classical economic theory and issues and the entrepreneurial history of the United States.
Dr. Evercloud has authored interactive economics tutorials which Addison-Wesley and Worth Publishing incorporate as part of the college curriculum and she also has designed PowerPoint presentations to accompany their standard textbooks.
Through Aspenheart Economics, Dr. Evercloud communicates her message of optimism about the resilience of free market economies and their ability to create an unfolding of opportunities for those who are willing to apply their creativity and talents in response to marketplace incentives. She serves as a public speaker on community concerns, policy issues, and the economic outlook.
In her free time, Dr. Evercloud writes poetry and raises puppies who will be placed as service dogs through the organization Canine Companions for Independence.
