Background

Academic and Administrative Positions

  • Fellow, St John’s College, Winnipeg, 1959-2006; Retired Fellow, 2006 - Present
  • Teaching Fellow, Economics and Political Science, St. John's College, Winnipeg, 1959-62
  • Assistant Professor, Economics, St. John's College, 1962-64
  • Research Scholar, Economic History, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, 1964-67
  • Tutor in Theology, St. Mark's Collegiate Library, Canberra, 1965
  • Associate Professor, Economics, St. John's College and University of Manitoba, 1967-72
  • External Tutor in Economics, University College, Oxford, 1971-72
  • Head, Economics, University of Manitoba, 1972-76
  • Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba, 1972-2006; Professor Emeritus 2007-
  • Lecturer in Theology, St. John's College, 1975-76, 1988, 2003-2006
  • Visiting Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex, 1979-80
  • Bye Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, 1986-87; Resident Senior Member, 1997-98, 2002; Senior Member 1986 to the present
  • Visiting Research Fellow, History of Ideas Program, Australian National University, 1991
  • Director, Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba, 1992-95; 1998-2000
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Director’s Unit, Australian National University, 1993, 1998
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College, 2002
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Social and Political Theory Unit, Australian National University, 2003.
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, 2007

Teachings

Courses taught, University of Manitoba, 1959-2006

  • Undergraduate, General: [for Economics Department]
    • Principles of Economics, Money and Banking
    • European Economic History
    • International Trade
    • Intermediate Macroeconomics
    • Intermediate Microeconomics
    • Canadian Economic Problems; [for Applied Mathematics Department]
    • Mathematics for Economists; [for Political Science Department] Introduction to Political Science.
  • Undergraduate, Honours: 
    • The Industrial Revolution in Britain
    • National Income
    • Business Cycles and Economic Growth
    • History of Economic Thought
  • Graduate: 
    • Advanced Money and Banking
    • Advanced International Trade
    • Advanced Macroeconomics
    • Advanced Economic Growth

Courses taught in Theology

  • St Mark’s Collegiate Library, Canberra, Australia, 1965: Historical and Systematic Theology [for General Ordination Examination]
  • St John’s College, Winnipeg: Biblical and Systematic Theology, 1975-76 [for M.Div program]; Biblical Theology, 1988 [for Extension program]; Topics in Theology, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 [for Diploma Program]

Doctoral theses supervised

  • K. Bhasin. ‘Neoclassical Growth Models in Open Economies’ (1973)
  • Ross B. Emmett, ‘The Economist as Philosopher: Frank H. Knight and American Social Science During the Twenties and Early Thirties’ (1990). [Awarded the History of Economics Society Best Dissertation Award for 1991]

Publications