| Martha L. Olney | |
| Birth Date: | 27 November 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Oakland, California |
| Nationality: | American |
| Institution: | University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma Mater: | University of Redlands[1] University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Richard Sutch[2] |
| Awards: | Distinguished Teaching Award Recipient, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990-1991 Katharine Coman Lecturer in Economic History, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, March 23, 1995 Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History, Economic History Association, 1997 Distinguished Teaching Award Recipient, University of California, Berkeley, 2002–2003 Great Teachers in Economics, Stavros Center for Economic Education, Florida State University, 2006–2007 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs, University of California, Berkeley, 2014–2015 |
| Spouse: | Rev. Esther Hargis |
| Url: | http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~olney |
| Repec Prefix: | f |
| Repec Id: | pol213 |
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,[3] and has authored several leading undergraduate economics textbooks.
Olney received a B.A. at the University of Redlands[1] and a Ph.D. in economics in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley.
Martha Olney is a teaching professor of economics (2002-) at the University of California, Berkeley.[4] She was previously an associate professor of economics (with tenure) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[5] 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,[6] 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).[7]