<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/westmont-news/martin-asher-joins-economics-department.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>03/15/2016</pubDate><title>Martin Asher Joins Economics Department</title><excerpt>Martin Asher, former director of Research and Scholars Programs at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has joined the Westmont Economics and Business Department as professor of economics. He taught the honors sections of both microeconomics and macroeconomics at Wharton, earning the William G. Whitney Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching six times. He has also taught at Villanova University and Swarthmore College.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
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