Dr. Alex Tokarev | Associate Professor, Economics and Philosophy

DEGREES, CERTIFICATES AND CERTIFICATIONS

  • PhD, Economics, SIU-Carbondale

My Teaching Philosophy

  1. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
  2. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
  3. “All education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.”
  4. Trophies are for winners!

Why I am at NU

To teach at America’s free market business school about the beauty, efficiency, morality and justice of an entrepreneurial society based on God-given human rights, individual freedoms and personal responsibility.

Latest by Dr. Alex Tokarev

Raising the Minimum Wage: Winners and Losers

Raising the Minimum Wage: Winners and Losers

The first federal minimum wage bill was signed into law during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second term as U.S. President. The Great Depression gave Washington a pretext to enact sweeping economic restrictions. So, by 1938, Congress had made it illegal for employees to charge less than 25 cents per hour for their labor services. Today’s inflation-adjusted...

By Dr. Alex Tokarev

Money Builds Civilizations; But in the Wrong Hands, It’s Dangerous

Money Builds Civilizations; But in the Wrong Hands, It’s Dangerous

Money was the tool that built our civilization. But, in the hands of the government, it can become a weapon of mass destruction. Let’s start with a simple explanation of how money greases the wheels of the economy: Step 1: Tom has $1 in the bank. Dick knits a scarf. Harry borrows $1 to buy...

By Dr. Alex Tokarev