Frank
  • Director and Chair, Master of Science in International Affairs and Global Enterprise, Economics Department
  • Director and Chair, Master of Science in International Affairs and Global Enterprise (MIAGE)
  • Associate Professor (Lecturer), Economics Department
  • Instructor, Economics Department, Dixie State College
801-368-3369

Research Summary

As a real-economy macroeconomist and reality-driven macroeconometrician, I focus on understanding the detailed, dynamic, and fundamental relationship between economic growth and energy consumption. Over the last two years, my research questions have evolved to understanding the failure to halt global warming; and to suggest a way to correct that. I present my new methodology in economic and energy physics conferences.

Education

  • Master of Science, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Economics, University of Utah. Project: Economic Growth with Unlimited Supplies of Energy.
  • Bachelor of Science with High Honors, Economics/Economic Theory, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Biography

Having grown up in a U.S. Military family, I have lived in and assimilated the customs and languages of France, Japan, and many U.S. states.

I attended nine grade schools and three high schools before attending the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology in Aeronauatical Engineering, and earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economic Theory with High Honors from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

After military service, including service in Thailand, my business career has included stints with Fortune 500 firms, mid-size manufacturing firms, international management consulting, and four technology and medical start-ups.

I now have turned a lingering desire for service into reality by entering the University of Utah Economics Ph.D. program which,  after several years of immersion, I consider one of the most important in the world , and to the world, due to its breadth and depth in both scholarship and students.


This great opportunity has strengthened my  lifelong interest in macroeconomics and given me a newly developed passion for statistics expressed through econometrics, specifically the statistics of time series.

So now, if someone asks me what I am, I say I am a macroeconometrician interested in both the historical and empirical role of energy consumption in economic development and growth.

I have also discovered that I am passionate about truth in both Economics teaching and research, and I look forward to a productive, and long, career in both.