Martha Louise Olney (born November 27, 1956) is a teaching professor of economics (2002–present) at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a winner of local and national teaching awards, and has authored several leading undergraduate economics textbooks.

Education

Olney received a B.A. at the University of Redlands and a Ph.D. in economics in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Academic career

Martha Olney is a teaching professor of economics (2002-) at the University of California, Berkeley. She was previously an associate professor of economics (with tenure) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her early career research focused on consumer durables, the advent of consumer credit in the 1920s, and the Great Depression. She has been awarded the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award, which is given to only three professors per year, and the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History, by the Economic History Association (in 1997).

Textbook authorship

Selected Research publications