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Charity-Joy Acchiardo

Charity-Joy Acchiardo is a senior fellow at the Civitas Institute and an associate professor of instruction in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the faculty lead for UT’s OnRamps economics course for high school students and the director of the Financial Responsibility and Economic Education program, both joint projects of the Civitas Institute and the Department of Economics. She is part of the economic educator faculty at the Fraser Institute and is a past executive director of the Journal of Economics Teaching.

Articles by Charity-Joy Acchiardo

Dec 3, 2025 · Charity-Joy Acchiardo

Higher Ed’s Diseconomies of Scale

In Texas, we take pride in doing everything BIG. That seems to apply to our university systems, as well. While other states have one or two public university systems, we…