Education:
University of Washington, B.A. in Business Administration,
1971
University of Washington, M.A. in Economics, 1973
University of Washington, Post-Masters Graduate Studies in Econometrics
and Finance, 1976
Employment History:
U.S.
Marine, teamster, real estate appraiser, central banker, trade organization
executive, part-time instructor (12 years), mortgage banker and, as of 1988, a
tenured member of Seattle Central's Economics faculty
Family Images:
Applied economics... Monopoly
The family at play:
James, age 7 and Nicholas, age 4, overseeing the construction of a gingerbread
house.
Young
Nicholas approaching the gingerbread house. The intent is obvious The Attack!
Success! Consumption
The
latest addition Buddy, the dog
On
vacation in PV
Mexico 2002
Young
James in PV
Mexico 2002
Young
Nick with his father at Hooters PV Mexico 2004
Young
Aaron Mt. St.
Helens Summit, 1987
Are you curious about economics?
You
are welcome to "sit-in" on any of my classes. Come and observe my
students explore the world of economic behavior. Economic classes are a blend
of theory and its application to world of individual choice. My students and I
enjoy questioning conventional wisdom and the world of political correctness.
Office:
301
Fine Arts Building
Office Hours:
10:00
- 10:50 Daily
Philosophical Nuggets of Wisdom:
Will
Durant (1885-1981)
Nature
smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and
everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and
their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England
and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire. To check the growth of inequality,
liberty must be sacrificed, as in Russia after 1917. Even when repressed,
inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability
desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom,
and in the end superior ability has its way.
"There
is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources
and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays
within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free
competition, without deception or fraud."
L. von
Mises, Human Action, 1949
"One
may try to justify (such a system of social security) by declaring that the
wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously
for their own future. But then it is not easy to silence the voices of those
who ask whether it is not paradoxical to entrust the nation’s welfare to the
decisions of voters whom the law itself considers incapable of managing their
own affairs; whether it is not absurd to make those people supreme in the
conduct of government who are manifestly in need of a guardian to prevent them
from spending their own income foolishly. Is it reasonable to assign to wards
the right to elect their guardians."
The
foundation of justice is good faith - in other words, consistency and truthfulness
in regard to promises and compacts.
J. Hubert,
2001
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