Gary M. Walton




Gary M. Walton, a Guggenheim Fellow (1976) and Founding Dean of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis (1981), is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Davis (2005).  He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington under the direction of Noble Laureate Douglass C. North. His research areas are economic history and applied microeconomics. He is coauthor of a number of popular economics textbooks: History of the American Economy, 10th ed. (Thomson South-Western, 2004); Understanding Economics Today, 7th ed. (Irwin, McGraw-Hill, 1999); and A Prosperous People: The Growth of the American Economy (Prentice-Hall, 1985). Walton is coauthor of The Economic Rise of Early America (Cambridge University Press, 1979); Western River Transportation: The Era of Early Internal Development, 1810-1860 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975); and Shipping Maritime Trade, and the Economic Development of Colonial North America (Cambridge University Press, 1972). He also wrote Beyond Winning: The Timeless Wisdom of Great Philosopher Coaches (Leisure Press, 1992), a book on leadership and human development based on the coaching philosophies of great coaches, including Vince Lombardi, Woody Hayes, and John Wooden. Since 1990, he has served as President of the Foundation for Teaching Economics, where he has designed and administered highly acclaimed economics and leadership programs delivered domestically and internationally to high school seniors, selected for their leadership potential, and to high school teachers. Walton is an entrepreneurial educator who has appeared on Firing Line with William F. Buckley and Milton Friedman, on Sports Check, and other TV and radio talk shows. Throughout the 1980s, he coached the middle distance runners of the UC Davis track team. Retiring from competitive running in 2000, he took up the alto sax and is an accomplished and recorded jazz musician, playing regularly with Jazz Nuances.




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