July, 2012
CURRICULUM
VITAE
Howard
Baetjer, Jr.
EDUCATION
Princeton University,
September, 1970 - June, 1974. B.A. in Psychology.
University
of Edinburgh, October, 1978 - June, 1980. M. Litt. in English Literature.
Boston
College, September, 1982 - March, 1984 (towards an M.A. in Political Science).
Degree conferred June, 1984.
George
Mason University, September, 1987 - January, 1993 (towards a Ph.D. in
Economics). Degree conferred May, 1993.
AREAS OF MAJOR INTEREST
My main research interest is
the nature and determinants of economic growth. I have been particularly
interested in understanding the nature of capital structure evolution and its
role in economic growth; at present I am focusing on the institutional
requirements for growth, especially formal private property rights and freedom
of contract. Another major interest of
late is the government interventions in the economy that caused or exacerbated
the recent housing boom and bust and the financial mess that resulted.
EXPERIENCE
English teacher, St. George's
School, Newport, Rhode Island, September, 1974 - June 1978 and September, 1980
- June, 1981.
Lecturer,
Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington, New York, March, 1984 - August,
1987.
Market
Manager, Smalltalk Components Market, on the American Information Exchange
(AMiX), November, 1991 - August, 1992.
Research
Associate, Mercatus Center (formerly, Center for Market Processes), Fairfax,
Virginia, January, 1993 - May, 1995.
Adjunct
Professor, Program on Social and Organizational Learning, George Mason
University, Fairfax, Virginia, January, 1994 - May, 1995.
Adjunct
Professor, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia,
September, 1994 - December, 1994
Visiting
Assistant Professor, Program on Social and Organizational Learning, George
Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, May, 1995 - May, 1996.
Adjunct
Professor, Department of Economics, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore,
Maryland, September, 1996 - May, 1997.
Consultant
on software development to a European multinational corporation, March 1997 -
July 1997.
Adjunct
Professor, Program on Social and Organizational Learning, George Mason
University, Fairfax, Virginia, August, 1997 - December 1997.
Lecturer,
Department of Economics, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, September 1997 -
.
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES
"Lasers, Harobeds, and
World Hunger,"
The Freeman, August, 1983.
"Does Welfare Diminish Poverty?" The
Freeman, April, 1984.
"Of Obligation and Transfer Taxation,"
The Freeman, November, 1984.
"Profit-Maker, Friend or Foe?" The
Freeman, April, 1985.
"Deregulate the Utilities," The
Freeman, September, 1986.
"Private Schools in the Inner City," The
Freeman, November, 1986.
"Freedom in the Dock," The Freeman,
February, 1987.
"Beauty
and the Beast," Reason, January 1988.
"Ebenezer Scrooge and the Free Society,"
The Freeman, December, 1988.
[with
D. Lavoie and W. Tulloh] "High Tech Hayekians: Some Possible Research
Topics in the Economics of Computation," Market Process, 8, 1990.
[with
D. Lavoie and W. Tulloh] "Increased Productivity through Reuse: An
Economist's Perspective," Proceedings of the Third Annual Workshop on
Reuse, Software Productivity Consortium, Herndon, Virginia, 1991.
[with
D. Lavoie and W. Tulloh] "Coping with Complexity: OOPS and the Economists'
Critique of Central Planning," Hotline on Object-Oriented Technology,
Vol. 4, no. 1, November, 1991.
[with
W. Tulloh] "Evolving Markets for Software Components," Hotline on
Object-Oriented Technology, Vol. 4, no. 1, November, 1992.
"The Manners of the Market," Religion
and Liberty, March/April, 1993.
"Social
Impact of Computer Vision," D. H. Schaefer, and E. F. Williams, eds., Proceedings
of the 25th AIPR Workshop: Emerging Applications of Computer Vision, SPIE,
February, 1997.
[with
Steve H. Hanke] "Doing Time Chills Crime," The
World and I, March, 1997.
[with
Steve H. Hanke] "The IMF Hydra," Jobs and Capital, Vol. 6, no.
2, Spring 1997.
"Knowledge
Capital and ‘The Knowledge Problem’," American Programmer, March
1998.
"Capital as
Embodied Knowledge: Some implications for the theory of economic growth," Review of Austrian
Economics, Vol. 13, no. 2, Fall 2000.
"Why 'Smart Growth' is Not-Smart Economics,"
Studies in Social Cost, Regulation, and the Environment: No. 4,
Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, September, 2000.
[with
Michael I. Lineberry] "The Mystery of Capital and Economic Calculation:
How de Soto’s Insights Illuminate
the Austrian Case for Private Property," The Journal of Private
Enterprise, Vol. 18, no. 2, Spring 2003.
"Comment
after twelve years by Howard Baetjer," on reprinting of Lavoie, Baetjer,
and Tulloh, "High Tech Hayekians: Some Possible Research Topics in the
Economics of Computation," in J. Birner and P. Garrouste, eds., Markets,
Information, and Communication, Austrian Perspectives on the Internet Economy,
New York: Routledge, 2003.
"At the Intersection of the Minimum Wage and Illegal
Immigration," The
Freeman, March, 2007.
"Something Besides Money Growth Causes Inflation? It Just
Ain't So!," The Freeman, July/August, 2007.
"Knowledge, Discovery, Incentives and Institutions: Teaching
Public Policy Analysis with Austrian and Public Choice Insights,"
The Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. 23, no. 1, Fall 2007.
"Inflation 101: Cause Versus Transmission,"
The Freeman, September, 2008.
[with Peter Lewin] “The Capital-Based View of the Firm,” Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 24,
no. 4, December 2011.
PUBLICATIONS:
WORKING PAPERS
[with Peter Lewin] "Can Ideas be Capital: Can Capital be Anything Else?",
Mercatus Center, Working Paper 83, July, 2007. (pdf file)
PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWS
"Review of Jack High (ed.): Humane Economics: Essays in honor of Don Lavoie," Review of Austrian Economics,
Vol. 21, no. 4, December 2008.
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
[with D. Lavoie and W.
Tulloh] Component Software: A Market Perspective on the Coming Revolution in
Software Development, Boston: Patricia Seybold Group, 1993.
[unpublished
dissertation] Software as Capital: Lessons for Economic Development from
Software Engineering, 1993.
Software as Capital: An Economic Perspective on Software
Engineering, Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer
Society Press, 1998.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate course taught:
"Object Technology for Non-Programmers"
Graduate
course taught: "Computational Modeling of Social Learning"
Graduate
course taught: "Interpretive Economics" (hypertext course)
Graduate
course taught: "Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem" (hypertext course
conducted entirely via internet)
MBA
course taught: "Global and Domestic Environment of Business"
Undergraduate
course taught: "Economic Problems and Policy Issues"
Undergraduate
course taught: "Contemporary Society in Multiple Perspectives"
Undergraduate
course taught: "Principles of Microeconomics"
Undergraduate
course taught: "Comparative Economic Systems"
Undergraduate
course taught: "Public Finance"
Undergraduate
course taught: "Money and Banking"
Seminar
course taught: "Introduction to Market-Process Economics" (10 hours)
Seminar
faculty: "Exploring Liberty." Seminar sponsored
by Institute for Humane Studies, summers 1996-.
Seminar
faculty: "Poverty and Prosperity." Seminar sponsored by Institute for
Humane Studies, summers 2007, 2008.
NON-TRADITIONAL CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
Developed interdisciplinary
undergraduate course, "Contemporary Society in Multiple Perspectives"
(1995), which used teams to develop a course project presented in Folio VIEWS
hypertext.
Developed
graduate course in evolutionary economics, "Bionomics: Economy as
Ecosystem" (1996, 1997), which uses electronic file transfer of Folio
VIEWS hypertext "shadow files" to support collaborative written
discussion, along with web-based conferencing system built in Lotus Domino.
GRANTS RECEIVED
$60,000 from a consortium of
computer companies for the 1991-1992 academic year to conduct research on the
software components industry.
COMPETITIONS
April
2007, second place, Economic Communicators Contest, sponsored
by the Market-Based Management Institute, in
cooperation with the Association of Private Enterprise Education.
SCHOLARLY
CONFERENCES
Paper
presented to the Southern Economic Association: "Capital Structure
Evolution: Austrian Observations on the Case of Software Development,"
November, 1999.
Invited
paper presented to the 15th International Forum on COCOMO and Software Cost
Estimation, Center for Software Engineering, University of Southern California
and the Los Angeles Software Productivity Improvement Network: "Towards Measuring Software Value,"
October, 2000.
Paper
presented to the Southern Economic Association: "Is F'' (k) < 0?
A Lachmannian Challenge to Growth Theory," November, 2000.
Paper
presented to the Association of Private Enterprise Education:
"Why 'Smart Growth' is Not-Smart Economics," April, 2001.
Discussant,
Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2001.
Paper
presented (with co-author Michael I. Lineberry) to the Association of Private Enterprise Education:
"The Mystery of Capital and Economic Calculation: How de Soto’s
Insights Illuminate the
Austrian Case for Private Property," April 2002.
Discussant,
"Economics, Philosophy, & Information Technology: The Intellectual
Contributions of Don Lavoie," George Mason University, September 2002.
Panel
chair, Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2003.
Discussant, Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2005.
Panel chair and discussant, Southern Economic Association meetings,
November 2006.
Paper
presented to the Southern Economic Association: [with Peter Lewin] “Can Ideas
be Capital: Can Capital be Anything Else?” November 2007.
Paper
presented to the Southern Economic Association: [with Peter Lewin] “Capital,
Knowledge and Organization” November 2009.
PROFESSIONAL
MEETINGS
Panelist: "The Economics
of Software Reuse," OOPSLA, Phoenix, Arizona, October 10, 1991.
Conference
Participant: Third Annual Workshop on Reuse, Software Productivity Consortium,
Herndon, Virginia, November 18-22, 1991.
Panelist:
"New Opportunities for the Information Entrepreneur," Telestrategies
Conference on "Internet, A Government Network Going Private", Reston,
Virginia, April 22, 1992.
Panelist:
"Commercial Opportunities for Service and Access Providers,"
Telestrategies Conference on "Commercializing Internet," Washington,
D.C., September 15, 1992.
Panelist:
"Public Policy Institutes and the Educational Arena," 20th
International Workshop, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Herndon, Virginia,
May 14, 1993.
Panelist:
"Software as a Corporate Asset," ObjectWorld Executive Forum, Boston,
Massachusetts, March 20, 1995.
Speaker:
"The Social Impact of Computer Vision," 25th AIPR Workshop, Emerging Applications
of Computer Vision, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1996.
CHARITABLE WORK
Founding trustee and board
chairman of Children’s
Scholarship Fund Baltimore, 1997 - 2007. CSF Baltimore has raised $7 million in local
and matching funds to provide partial scholarships to help low-income Baltimore
city children attend private and parochial schools.
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