Christopher R. Thomas Christopher R. Thomas is currently associate professor of economics at University
of South Florida. He worked for two years as an energy economist at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory before joining the faculty at USF in 1982. He now teaches
managerial economics at the undergraduate level and in two executive training
programs, a traditional Executive MBA program and an Executive MBA program for
physicians that draws doctors nationwide. Professor Thomas has published numerous
articles on government regulation of industry and antitrust issues in Quarterly
Journal of Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Southern Economic Journal,
Journal of Economics and Business, Quarterly Review of Economics and Business,
and Journal of Economic Education. He serves as a policy associate
at the Center for Economic Policy Analysis at University of South Florida. Professor
Thomas lives with his wife and daughter in Tampa, Florida, where he enjoys playing
tennis. S. Charles Maurice Chuck Maurice was Professor Emeritus of Economics at Texas A&M University.
He spent 30 years in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M, where he
served as Department Head from 1977 through 1981, and held the Rex B. Grey University
Professorship of Free Enterprise from 1981 through 1985. Professor Maurice published
numerous articles on microeconomic theory in the top economic journals. He co-wrote
two scholarly books on natural resource depletion: The Doomsday Myth
and The Economics of Mineral Extraction. He also wrote with Charles
Ferguson, and later Owen Phillips, the widely used intermediate level microeconomics
textbook Economic Analysis, which was published from 1971 to 1996.
Professor Maurice retired to Gainesville, Florida, where he lived until his
death in the Spring of 1999.
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