About the Author of China Watch

John Maher (inset) is Emeritus Professor in economics and finance, Southern Connecticut State University, where he first served as Chairman and later as first Dean of the School of Business.

He has also taught at DePauw University, Wesleyan University in Connecticut and Oakland University in Michigan. He was Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School, State University of New York at Binghamton while working in New York. He holds the degrees of AB, PhD, Harvard; MS, Wisconsin.

During five years in the Navy he served aboard the destroyers Hobson and Hunt, becoming Chief Engineer of the latter. He is now a Lieutenant Commander in the Retired Reserve.

For six years he was Senior Economist at the Joint Council on Economic Education, Director of their educational programs and the first Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Education. With foundation grants he wrote the scripts and appeared as instructor in two televised economics programs.

Professor Maher's consulting covers a wide range of diverse projects. He directed the estimation of revenues for Connecticut's Economic Planning and Development Committee with results published in Selected Revenues of Connecticut. For the Department of Motor Vehicles he evaluated licensing procedures, leading to procedural revisions. He represented the discipline of economics on a research committee of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. For Time magazine he developed instructional materials.

His work with the legal profession is reflected in his co-authorship with Stuart M. Speiser of Recovery for Wrongful Death and Injury: Economic Handbook (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 4th ed., 1995). He has addressed the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, a Defense Seminar of the Travelers Insurance Company and other forums of attorneys.

On sabbatical in 1977 he researched the topic, "The impact of federal income taxes on claims for damages." For this work he received an appointment as a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. In 1979-1980 he was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at Yale University and in 1979 he introduced at Southern Connecticut the course, The Economic Analysis of Damages. During his 1986 sabbatical he taught economics at the Graduate School, Yellow River University, Henan Province, People's Republic of China.

Professor Maher has been listed in such biographical dictionaries as Who's Who in America, American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in the East, Contemporary Authors, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in the World.

In May and October 2000 and October 2001, Maher taught and lectured at universities in Nanjing and Beijing, dealing with the New Economy and Chinese-American relations. Among other institutions, presentations were made at Nanjing-Johns Hopkins University Center in Nanjing and the Chinese Academy of Social Science in Beijing.

In May through June, 2002, in Nanjing, he taught in the MBA program at the Technological Personnel College and lectured briefly at Hohai University. In June he also served as a consultant to the MBA program at the National Technological Institute, Beijing, where he is a member of the Board of Directors, and delivered two lectures at the Wei Hai branch of Shandong University.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Labor and the Economy, Allyn and Bacon, 1965, translated into Portuguese and published by Freitas Bastos, 1967, under the title, O Trabalhismo e a Economia.

What Is Economics?, John Wiley & Sons, 1969.

Economics in the Curriculum, John Wiley & Sons, 1971 (co-author).

Thinker, Sailor, Brother, Spy, an autobiographical novel, 1995.

Recovery for Wrongful Death and Injury: Economic Handbook, Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1995 (co-author with Stuart M. Speiser).

Articles

Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Monthly Labor Review, V. 75, 1, July, 1952, 34-38.

Union, Nonunion Wage Differentials, American Economic Review, V. XLVI, 3, June 1956, 336-52. Reprinted in R. Perlman (ed.), Wage Determination, D.C. Heath, 1964.

The Interpretation of Wage Data, Journal of Business, Univ. of Chicago, V. XXX, 1, 1957 44-9.

Forecasting Industrial Production, Journal of Political Economy, V. LXV, 2, Apr., 1957, 158-65.

Nuclear Energy and the American Economy, in Problems in U.S. Economic Development, Committee for Economic Development, V.1, 1958 (an award-winning essay).

Correlations among Time Series and Moore's Statistical Indicators, American Statistician, V. 12,4, Oct. 1958, 15-18.

The Economics Workshop at Wesleyan, The Teaching of Elementary Economics, Strauss and Knopf, eds. Rinehart, New York, 1960.

An Index of Wage Rates for Selected Industries, 1946-1957, Review of Economics and Statistics, V. XLII, 3, Aug., 1961, 227-92.

Selected Revenues of Connecticut to 1975, Wesleyan University and the Connecticut Economic Planning and Development Committee, 1961, 79 pp. (co-author with Robert E. Hunter).

The Wage Pattern in the United States, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, V. 15, 1, Oct., 1961, 2-20.

The Steel Crucible, The New Republic, Feb. 26, 1962, p. 5 (an unsigned note).

Rejoinder to comments by Kenneth Alexander, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, V. 15, 4, July 1962, 544-7; to comments by Maurice Benewitz and Allan Spiro, Ibid., Oct., 1962.

Economic Ideas and Concepts at the Senior High Level, Developmental Economic Education Program, Part Two, Joint Council on Economic Education, New York, 1964 (co-author).

Economics: Conceptions and Misconceptions, Social Education, V. XXX, 4, Apr. 1966, 229-35. Reprinted in Gross, McPhie and Fraenkel (eds.), Teaching Social Studies, International Textbook Co., Scranton, 1969; excerpted in Inman and Murphy (eds.), The Economic Process, Scott Foresman and Co., Glenview, 1969.

Impact of Devastating Injuries; Proof Relating to Economic Losses, The Big Negligence Case, Personal Injury Law and Technique, V.2, Practicing Law Institute, N.Y., 1968, 23-228.

DEEP: Strengthening Economics in the Schools, American Economic Review, Proceedings, May, 1969.

Economics and the Cold Potato, Summer, 1969, in a book of readings, Ohio University.

Economics, Good and Bad, The Clearing House, Sept., 1969, 16-17.

The Assessment of the Developmental Economic Education Program, Assessment of Educational Programs, University of Minnesota, 1970, 5-10.

Economist as Witness, Case and Comment, Mar. 1972, 15-17.

The Impact of Wage-Price Controls on Claims for Damages, New York State Bar Journal, Aug., 1972.

The Use of Economic Testimony, The Barrister (Pennsylvania), Aug 1972, 8-9.

Personal Income Taxes and Claims for Damages, New York State Bar Journal, Apr., 1978, 200-3.

Estimating Future Earnings Loss, TRIAL, Feb, 1979, 39-41.

What Are Lawyers Worth?, American Bar Association Journal, Mar., 1994,122 (co-author).

Paradoxes of Economic Science, Economic Highlights, Sichuan, China, July 18, 1997 (in Chinese).

World Security through Chinese Eyes, Worldwide WAMM, Women Against Military Madness, May, 2001, 3.

Book Reviews

People of Plenty by David M. Potter, Social Research, V. 22,3, autumn, 1955, 368-9.

Fundamentals of Economics by R.T. Morris, American Economic Review, V. LI, 5, Dec., 1961.

Small Business and Pattern Bargaining by W. Carpenter and E. Handler, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, V. 15, 4, July 1962, 569-70.

Real Wages in Manufacturing by Albert Rees, Kyklos, V. XV, 3, 1962, 678-80.

The Economics of Labor by E.H. Phelps Brown, American Economic Review, V.LIII, Sept., 1963.

Children's Books Published by Franklin Watts, Inc.: Ideas about Money, 1970; Ideas about Taxes, 1971; Ideas about Measuring and Accounting, 1973.

Newspaper Articles

An American Awakens to China, Yangtze Evening Post, Jan 14, 2001; Nanjing Global Times, June 15, 2001.

New York Times

Where taxes are biting deepest, Oct 5; In praise of myself, June 6, 1982.

New Haven Register

Insurance settlements are still less than the actual loss, Sept. 11, 1979.

Malpractice suits produce a political crisis, Dec. 18, 1985.

Telephone calls from China not reassuring, July, 1989.

Chinese rebels pour out grief in letters, Dec. 6, 1989.

Social Security operates without reserves, Jan. 22, 1990.

Hartford Courant

The Social Security Act makes the idea of retiring discouraging, Feb. 2, 1991.

Hamden Chronicle

Hamden: A look ahead and a look behind, Jan. 18, 1991.

$9,182 per pupil? Jan. 25, 1973.

Poll goes 63-37 against second high school, Apr. 5, 1973.

Hamden in forefront on education outlay, Apr. 12, 1973.

Open space? Poll is even, Mar. 31, 1977.

Educational myths: Schools determine what pupils learn, Apr. 7, 1977; 'Nothing too good' ignores income data, Apr. 14, 1977; Enrollments are predictable, Apr. 28, 1977; Educational costs can't be controlled, May 19, 1977.

Simulation/Gaming News

ECON simulation cited as success, Mar., 1973 (co-author).

Analytical letters

The Atlantic, May, 1992; The New York Times, Jan. 1, 1993; May 30, 1990.