-: So, Ken Taylor in the economics department,
I think he's still here, actually,
but ECON and Perspective, I think it was ECON 204,
so what that class was all about was
the different economic perspectives and how they,
their methodology is and how they view the world,
and what their prescriptions are.
So, an economic conservative versus an economic liberal,
tax, so, you know, it all...
It was all on the table and what we would do is we would,
Group A would argue this perspective,
Group B would argue this perspective,
Group C would argue maybe a Libertarian perspective,
and what are the pros, what are the cons,
how would we go about, let's say,
increasing GDP, what would be the prescription
from this particular viewpoint?
And so what that allowed you to do is obviously communicate
your point, articulate it,
critical thinking,
and it was just very interesting stuff.
I mean, I left there, actually, that was the only class
that I came back after I graduated
to get some course material,
because I really wanted to learn
a little bit more about that,
because when I got out of school
and I'm in the finance world, I was like, well,
this is the prescription, how do they come about that?
And you're like, oh, that's more of an economic liberal
or economic conservative perspective.
Here are the values, propositions here,
here is what makes them tick.
Here's the pros, here's the cons.
I literally went to him and got it after.
I left work, and went and got it from him,
and he actually remembered who I was, too,
so that was interesting as well, so,
that was the professor that really left a mark on me
and that class is really the one
that kind of was the springboard
for a lot of different things for myself and my career.