About the author
James W. Marlin, Jr. has had three separate careers. His first career was with the United States Air Force. He was an instructor pilot for students in both German and American Air Forces, a fighter pilot in Vietnam, and a staff officer at the Pentagon. His second career was as an economics professor. He was an associate and full professor of economics in Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina. He was chairman of the Department of Economics at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. His third career was as President of a non-profit corporation in Nebraska, where he headed the Nebraska Council on Economic Education. NCEE provides graduate education to teachers throughout Nebraska on how to teach economics to students from kindergarten through high school. During his academic careers, he was engaged in devising alternative methods of teaching, mostly involving computer applications. He retired in 1995 and moved to his mountain home in Colorado.
