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
SE Corner, Pine & Harvard
Office Hours:
10:00 - 10:50 Daily
Philosophical Nuggets of Wisdom:
Thomas Sowell (author and economist)
"If
you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be
judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50
years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today."
Will
Durant (historian 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
Cartoon
Faculty Salaries
Home Pages:
E-Mail Addresses:
Fax Number:
206
587 6337
