Beyond the Headlines: Economic Realities of Immigration

Libby Rittenberg is Professor Emerita of Economics at Colorado College. She received her B.A. In Economics-mathematics and Spanish from Simmons College in 1973, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Rutgers in 1978 and1980, respectively.

Prior to joining the faculty at Colorado College in 1989, she taught at Lafayette College and at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Management. She served as a Fulbright Scholar in Istanbul, Turkiye in the mid-1980s and worked as a research economist at Mathematica, Inc. in Princeton, New Jersey in the late 1970s.

She specialized in the internationally oriented areas of economics, with numerous articles in journals and books on comparative and development economics and a particular emphasis on the Turkish economy.  Edited book titles include The Political Economy of Turkey in the Post-Soviet Era: Going West and Looking East? and The Economic Transformation of Eastern Europe: Views from Within. From 2000 to 2020, she co-authored various editions of a college-level introductory economics textbook (first by Worth Publishers and more recently by Flatworld Knowledge) with UCCS Professor Emeritus Timothy Tregarthen. The textbook continues to be published by Flatworld Knowledge with a new, and younger, author.