Noel D. Johnson

Noel D. Johnson

I’m a Professor of Economics at George Mason University. I’m also a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a faculty member at the Center for the Study of Public Choice.

Teaching

A cartoon of a professor lecturing on the parts of a cat

In Fall 2026 I am teaching two courses. Both meet on Mondays.

  • Econ 623 American Economic History. 4:30 to 7:10 in Enterprise Hall 274. Here is the syllabus.
  • Econ 895 Spatial Techniques in Empirical Economics. 7:20 to 10:00 in Research Hall 201. Here is the syllabus. The course now teaches large language models and AI alongside the spatial and text methods.

In Summer 2026 I taught Econ 360 Development Economics. It was an online asynchronous course. Here is the syllabus.

If you want my tutorials on basic ArcGIS usage you can download them here.

For links on writing and other advice for students click here.

For links to GIS data click here.