About me
Ying Zhen is an Associate Professor of Business and Economics at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, where she serves as the Economics Program Director. Her major fields of specialization are labor economics, cultural economics, and industrial organization. Specific research interests include music business and economics of immigration. She recently published a book with Routledge: Artists and Markets in Music: The Political Economy of Music During the Covid Era and Beyond. Her research in the music industry has been published in a variety of journals, such as Journal of Cultural Economics, The American Economist, and the MEIEA Journal. She considers economics a universal science, which should be open to everyone. Her ultimate goal is to help students see the world through the eyes of an economist, helping them to appreciate the beauty of economics and to become civilized world citizens.
