Jim Hubert's Home Page (A work in process)

Division of Business, Languages, Cultures, and Allied Health

Seattle Central Community College

Business Faculty

BIOGRAPHY:

Education:

Garfield High School, 1961

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. The Gingerbread House

Young Nicholas approaching the gingerbread house. The intent is obvious The Attack!

Success! Consumption

The latest addition Buddy, the dog

The Main Event

The Event

On vacation in PV Mexico 2002

Young James in PV Mexico 2002

Young Nick with his father at Hooters PV Mexico 2004

Young James the musician Cabo Mexico 2009

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 (Masonic Temple)

Office Hours:

10:00 - 10:50 Daily (or by appointment)

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.

Milton Friedman

"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."

Cicero, 106 - 43 BC

The foundation of justice is good faith - in other words, consistency and truthfulness in regard to promises and compacts.

J. Hubert, 2001

Trade creates wealth!

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Political Discourse

Faculty Salaries

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Home Pages:

Business, Languages, Cultures Division, and Allied Health Seattle Central CC

E-Mail Addresses:

mailto:jhubert@sccd.ctc.edu