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Faculty Profiles
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Jay Ashman
Spent 28 years as an Assistant Attorney General in consumer protection and antitrust with the Vermont attorney general. Interested in international work and education, having lived and worked/taught in Kenya, Malaysia, and most recently in New Zealand. |
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Dan Baker
An active community and regional planner specializing in sustainable rural development. An applied background in rural occupations and the realities of life in remote communities provides the foundation for working with underserved communities. Dan has extensive experience translating technical planning and analysis into formats meaningful and useful to client communities. |
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Ken Becker
An agricultural economist and program administrator with extensive experience in micro-economics and agricultural policy implementation. He has provided farmers with assistance to improve management skills, gain access to credit, and adopt new technology. Mr. Becker’s record in financial management, rural finance, and administration comes from more than twenty years of experience working in dairy farming, agricultural credit, public policy, and education. He is an experienced trainer in credit, management, marketing, and development, and has cumulative international experience in four countries. |
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Josh Farley
Though formally trained in neoclassical economics, Josh is an ecological economist-an approach to economics far more complementary to his background in biology and international development, and his extensive experience working, studying and traveling in less developed countries. His major research interests are eclectic, including the problem of market failures and the policies required to address them, the role of the public sector in resource allocation, international development, economic globalization, envisioning a sustainable and desirable future, and system sustainability, among others. |
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Gary Flomenhoft
Gary has a diverse background of practical experience ranging from environmental technology and Green politics, to aerospace and systems engineering. Gary's interests in Ecological Economics focus on methods for transition to steady-state economics, distribution of income from natural capital and common assets, poverty alleviation, and indicators of human well-being. |
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