Award-Winning Economics Tutors
serving Des Moines, IA

Training in economics at the University of Chicago means learning it where modern economic thought was shaped — from Friedman's monetarism to Becker's rational choice theory. Elliot digs into supply-and-demand mechanics, market equilibrium, and game theory with the analytical rigor that program demands, making dense material accessible without oversimplifying it. He holds a 4.9 rating.

Studying finance at UGA means Vignesh works with economic concepts as living inputs — interest rates, market structures, consumer behavior — not just textbook diagrams, since his coursework requires applying micro and macro reasoning to actual corporate and investment decisions. He also teaches AP Micro and AP Macro, so he knows exactly where introductory students get tripped up on topics like elasticity, market failures, and the mechanics of fiscal versus monetary policy. Rated 5.0 by his students.

As a Finance major at Boston College, Andy engages with economic theory daily — from GDP and inflation to trade policy and market structures. He unpacks concepts like supply-and-demand equilibrium and opportunity cost by tying them to real headlines and business decisions, making the logic behind economic models click rather than feel abstract.

Jake's marketing degree means he studied the demand side of economics firsthand — consumer behavior, pricing strategy, and how firms respond to market signals are concepts he's applied, not just memorized. His strong quantitative background (he tutors AP Statistics and both AP Calculus courses) lets him handle the graphing and algebraic reasoning that economics problems demand when students move past definitions into actual analysis. Rated 4.9 by his students.

Peter's journalism degree trained him to research, synthesize, and explain complex systems to a general audience — skills that translate directly to breaking down economic concepts like market structures, trade-offs, and policy impacts into clear, logical narratives. His Master's in Education means he knows how to structure those explanations so they actually land, whether a student is wrestling with supply-and-demand graphs or trying to connect micro principles to bigger macro questions.

Supply and demand diagrams are just the entry point — JF digs into the reasoning behind elasticity, comparative advantage, and market equilibrium so that students can tackle unfamiliar problems without relying on memorized setups. His dual math and computer science training at Stanford gives him a quantitative edge when explaining concepts like marginal analysis and cost curves.

Applying to PhD programs in applied mathematics means Romeo lives in the quantitative world that most economics students find intimidating — the calculus behind marginal analysis, the optimization problems in consumer and producer theory, the statistical models that underpin econometric reasoning. His math degree and 1510 SAT give him the analytical toolkit to break down the equations hiding inside economic concepts, making the transition from intuitive supply-and-demand reasoning to formal modeling feel far less daunting.

I am a graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with Distinction in 2015. Since graduation, I was a physics/chemistry teacher and soccer coach at a private school in Virginia for a year, where I led the soccer team to an undefeated season. Before teaching and coaching professionally, I was a Teaching Assistant for the Cornell Math and Physics Departments, where I taught many subjects including calculus, mechanics, electromagnetism. Throughout my time at Cornell and as a teacher, I tutored subjects ranging from the SAT to AP Physics and Algebra II, which is where my true talents lie: in small group or one-on-one settings where I can give students the full attention they deserve and tailor my approach specifically to their learning styles. This is why I am now pursuing tutoring as a part-time occupation at Varsity Tutors. I embrace teaching all math and science subjects, especially physics and calculus, at both the college and high school level and will go above and beyond to make sure all of my students succeed, according to their definition of success. In my spare time, I enjoy playing league soccer, basketball, tennis and guitar, and also like to travel and see as much of the world as I can.

Three economics degrees deep, Simon lives in supply-and-demand curves, GDP models, and game theory the way most people live in their native language. He unpacks concepts like elasticity, monetary policy, and market equilibrium by tying them to real headlines — tariff debates, Federal Reserve decisions, housing markets — so the math and the intuition reinforce each other.

An MBA from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate economics degree mean David has encountered the full spectrum of economic reasoning — from microeconomic models of firm behavior to the macroeconomic policy debates that shape real markets. Running a startup gives him a founder's perspective on how concepts like pricing strategy, marginal cost, and competitive dynamics actually play out when you're the one making the decisions.

Matt's undergraduate economics degree gives him genuine fluency with the core material — supply and demand mechanics, market structures, opportunity cost — while his theatre and acting training means he knows how to make a dry lecture on GDP or fiscal policy feel like a conversation worth having. A 34 ACT composite speaks to the kind of analytical sharpness that keeps explanations tight and precise, especially when students need to connect graphs to the economic reasoning behind them.

Studying economics at Dartmouth with a computational emphasis, Eric digs into both the theoretical models and the real-world data that test them. He's particularly effective at unpacking concepts like elasticity, comparative advantage, and market equilibrium — translating the math into plain-language reasoning that sticks.

Studying both engineering and economics at Duke gave Natalie a quantitative lens on economic reasoning — she's comfortable moving between supply-and-demand intuition and the math behind elasticity, optimization, and equilibrium. She digs into the "why" behind each model so students can apply concepts to unfamiliar problems, not just textbook examples.