Don Ethridge, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Director, Cotton Economics Research Institute
Associate Director, CASNR Water Center
Member, Water Leadership Council
Associate, ICASALS

TTU, Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics, P.O. Box 42132, Lubbock, TX 79409
1.806.742.2821  |    1.806.742.1099
don.ethridge@ttu.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Economics, North Carolina State University (1970)
• M.S., Agricultural Economics, Texas Tech University (1967)
• B.S., Agricultural Economics, Texas Tech University (1965)

Dr. Don Ethridge is the Associate Director of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources' Water Center. His research interests include production economics, natural resource economics (including rangeland economics and environmental economics), international economics, food and resource policy, and market and price analysis. Dr. Ethridge has performed research related to cotton encompasses all industry segments—from production inputs and financing to economics of textile processing, and developed an internationally recognized program in cotton economics, with emphasis on cotton price analysis and marketing. His water research includes pricing mechanism to achieve water use efficiency and water pollution reduction, investment in water-saving and range land improvements, and water use efficiency in agricultural production.

Courses Taught
Principles of Economics, Problems in Economic Society, Natural Resource Economics, Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Production Economics, Special Problems in Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Price Analysis, Methodology for Research and Management, International Trade, Research Methodology in Economics, and Food, Agricultural, and Resource Policy Analysis

Selected Publications

• Ethridge, Don, Darren Hudson, and Sukant Misra. “Cotton Pricing.” Ch. 9, Cotton Trading Manual. Cambridge, England: Woodhead publishing Ltd, 2005.
• Ethridge, Don. Research Methodology in Applied Economics, 2nd ed. Ames, IA: Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
• Ethridge, Don E. “Cotton Industry.”Section in “Industry” Chapter, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004, p. 416.
• Ethridge, Don E. “Past, Present, and Future: A Perspective.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 34 (2 Aug. 2002): 255-258.
• Johnson, Jason, Phillip Johnson, David Willis, Eduardo Segarra, Don Ethridge, Ronald Lacewell, John Ellis, and Stephen Amosson. “Estimating the Potential to Reduce Agricultural Irrigation Water Demand in West Central Texas.” Texas Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 14 (2001): 133-143.
• Hudson, Darren and Don Ethridge. “Competitiveness of U.S. Agricultural Commodities: Expanding Our View.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 82 (No.5, Dec. 2000): 1221-1225 (also gave as a Principal Paper of the AAEA meetings, Tampa, FL, Aug. 2, 2000).
• Hudson, Darren and Don Ethridge. “Cotton.” Chapter 8 in Competitiveness of U.S. Agriculture, Dale Colyer, et al., eds., Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, 2000, pp. 119-137.