Dr. Kenneth G. Elzinga, the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, will offer a lecture “The Virtues of Trade” at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 16 in Winants Auditorium, Graves Hall. The lecture is hosted by Markets & Morality and cosponsored by the Department of Economics and Business.

Each fall, Dr. Elzinga’s introductory economics course attracts over one thousand students and is the largest class offered at the University of Virginia. In 1992, Dr. Elzinga was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest honor the University of Virginia accords its faculty. Since 2002, the Southern Economics Association has awarded the Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award, an annual honor reflecting that Dr. Elzinga is “widely recognized as one of the most accomplished, effective, and influential educators in the economics profession.” Dr. Elzinga’s major research interest is antitrust economics. The author of more than one hundred academic publications, he also is known for four mystery novels (under the pen name Marshall Jevons) in which the protagonist employs economic analysis to solve the crime. The latest is The Mystery of the Invisible Hand.

Dr. Elzinga has served on the Boards of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Hope College, and the Center for Christian Study at UVA, and is active in ministry to college students. A former Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago and a Thomas Jefferson Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University, Dr. Elzinga also is a past president of the Southern Economic Association and served as a judge for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award.

Dr. Elzinga has a B.A. and honorary doctorate from Kalamazoo College, a Ph.D. from Michigan State University, and is an Honorary Faculty member of Dongbei University. He has been a member of the faculty at the University of Virginia since 1967.