Instructor of Record
Markets, Government, and Social Justice (ECO 173)Creighton University
Introductory Macroeconomics (ECO 205)Creighton University · Syllabus
Introductory Macroeconomics (ECO 205)Creighton University · Syllabus
Introductory Microeconomics (ECO 203)Creighton University · Syllabus
Applied Business Economics (BECO 3310)Texas Tech University · Syllabus
Student Evaluations
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ECO 205 — Spring 2026 (Creighton)
I really enjoyed this class. It was probably my favorite class that I had all semester and maybe even this year. I really liked how you taught about world events and how it related to economics as a whole. I am sorry that other people in class didn’t really contribute but I thought that it was a really cool class. I wish you could stay at Creighton.
I’m inspired by his passion for Japanese history. I myself am passionate about Roman history, and having him as a professor has assured me that my decision to major in economics was one well made. It’s good to know that not only do my non-professional interests prepare me well for the career I want to pursue, but that they have a place of their own within that career.
Jed is very knowledgeable and can usually put the more complicated economic ideas into everyday examples. I also really liked that we would discuss major events that would be affecting the economy, it put things into perspective on how economics can show how these events are helping or harming us.
Overall, this has been a good class with a very fun and reasonable teacher. Dr. Reese always wants to get us engaged during class. Very understanding and always able to help. Definitely recommend
Super great teacher. Not the teacher I wanted at first but im super glad i got him.
Very nice and kind teacher always interacts with the students in his class and does his best with the teachings. Likes to talk about Japan a lot.
ECO 203 — Fall 2025 (Creighton)
I loved how real-life examples were implemented in class to enhance our learning and understanding. This helped me apply what I was learning in class to current events and not just memorizing definitions and the curves. Overall, I really enjoyed this class and found it very interesting!
Great guy and amazing teacher! It is the only class where I don’t watch the clock waiting for it to be over.
Jedediah show remarkable interest and enthusiasm to the material and was always engaging everyone. He made me very interested in the topic and he was a great teach and great person overall.
This class was definitely enlightening to me, and it made me think things that I never even battedan eye to towards our economy and how our decisions impact it. Now whenever I go to the grocery store, all I think about is the prices and seeing if they’ve gotten lower or higher as well as what could’ve caused them. I had a great time learning in your class, and I thank you for that.
I enjoyed taking this class with Dr. Pida-Reese; he shows a lot of care and respect for the learning of his students, and engages with our interests inside and outside of class. The material was challenging, but he did his best to make sure that no students were being left behind with challenging concepts. I would 100% take him again.
This class is great! Mr. Pida-Reese is a great teacher and a very understanding person. I appreciate how he connects his own studies to the course material.
BECO 3310 — Fall 2023 (Texas Tech)
Great class would take with you again
Love this professor
Great course, Mr. Reese was very helpful and attentive and had a good time this semester in this course.
Great instructor. Very flexible and kind to his students. Would definitely recommend this course to my peers.
one of the best professors at Tech! Thoroughly enjoyed his class and I would recommend anyone to take his class.
Loved the class
Great professor, really enjoyed his class all semester!
Professor Pida-Reese was an incredible instructor who made economics interesting and included his own research in his instruction which made it easy to relate it to our life
Approach
My teaching is shaped by four years teaching English in Japan with students ranging from young children to retired professionals. Every class meant adapting explanations to where each student actually was. That translates directly to introductory economics, where a single section often includes students who came planning to major in the discipline alongside students who would never have taken it given the choice. My aim is for both to leave with a working grasp of how economic reasoning shows up in their own lives.
In class I lean on active simulation rather than passive lecture. Students run a pit-trading experiment using playing cards to represent buyers’ willingness-to-pay and sellers’ costs, and discover for themselves how the price system organizes a noisy market into something like equilibrium. We pull daily news stories into class to apply the theory, and I treat the textbook as a starting point for questions rather than a closed answer key.
The most meaningful work happens outside the lecture hall — in office hours and in the minutes before and after class. Students who feel too shy to speak in a room of peers find space there to talk about the material, about graduate school, about what they’re balancing alongside coursework. As a Faculty Fellow at the Menard Center for Economic Inquiry, I extend that mentorship through Philosophy, Politics, and Economics reading groups and undergraduate research seminars, helping students formulate and pursue questions of their own.