M. J. Alhabeeb, PhD, is Professor of Consumer Economics and Finance in the Department of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been teaching finance and consumer economics for over 30 years and is a recipient of The Academy of Educational Leadership's Outstanding Teaching Award for Innovative and Creative Teaching. Dr. Alhabeeb is the author of Managerial Economics: A Mathematical Approach and Mathematical Finance, both of which are published by Wiley.