Questions for America

Jack Reardon is Senior Lecturer of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is the founding editor of The International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, passionately advocating for a reconceptualized, inclusive, and pluralist economics and economics education so that we all can reach our potential. Author of several books on economics, and a novel, Jack has taught /lectured across the globe, including China, India, the Soviet Union, Latvia, Lithuania, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Mexico.

David Wheat is Emeritus Professor of System Dynamics at the University of Bergen in Norway. During the 1972-75 period, he served as White House Staff Assistant to Presidents Nixon and Ford, working on economic and energy policy issues. Later, he headed a private consulting firm in Texas. Professor Wheat's current projects include collaboration with Ukrainian economists to build dynamic modeling capacity at universities in Kyiv and Lviv and working with policymakers on a post-war reconstruction planning model for Ukraine.