Curriculum Vitae Fred E. Foldvary Lecturer in Economics Department of Economics, San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192
[email protected] All activities listed in reverse chronology Education Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University, 1992. Dissertation, Public Goods and Private Communities. Thesis Director: Professor Richard E. Wagner. 1992 The dissertation extends theories of public goods and industrial organization to residential associations and other private communities, with case studies on the market provision of collective goods, rebutting market-failure arguments. Master of Arts, Economics, George Mason University, 1990. B.A., Economics and computer science, University of California, Berkeley, 1970. Honors Phi Beta Kappa, Honor Student (U.C. Berkeley) Editor experience Editor, Topical Time magazine, 1981 to 1987. Responsible for selecting and editing articles, handling ads, obtaining proofs, and layout. Employment Lecturer in Economics, San Jose State University, 2006 to present day. Lecturer in Economics, Santa Clara University, September 1998 - 2012. Co-director, Civil Society Institute, Santa Clara University, 2005-2012. Topics taught: principles of microeconomics, principles of macroeconomics, public finance, real estate economics, law and economics, history of economic thought, labor economics. Past positions at California State University at Hayward, John F. Kennedy University (California), Virginia Tech, and the Latvian University of Agriculture. Other teaching Northeastern Univerisity, Shenyang, China. One-week classes by international economists, 2010, 2011, 2012. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) class, “Policy for social well being,” SCU, Nov. 7, 14. Student seminars, Independent Institute, Oakland, California Economic and Social Policy Institute (ESPI), Belgrad, Serbia, July 2007, 2008. “Summer School of Economics: Vienna and Chicago, Two Schools of Free-Market Economics.