Ken Schoolland
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Ken Schoolland is presently an Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science at Hawaii Pacific University. He is also the Senior Economics Adviser to Hawaii congressional candidate Daniel Brackins. He is a Member of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Individual Liberty, and a Sam Walton Fellow for Students in Free Enterprise. Prior to his current responsibilities, Ken Schoolland was the Director of the Master of Science in Japanese Business Studies program at Chaminade University of Honolulu and head of the Business and Economics Program at Hawaii Loa College.
Following his graduate studies at Georgetown University, he served as an International Economist in the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and on assignment to the White House Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations under President Regean. Schoolland left government for the field of education, teaching business and economics at Sheldon Jackson College in Alaska. He also taught at Hakodate University in Japan, where he wrote Shogun's Ghost: The Dark Side of Japanese Education, which has been published in both English and in Japanese.
Schoolland is also the author of; The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible, a children's book that focuses on economics, government intervention and the free-market. It has been translated into multiple languages and it is used today in Middle School and Primary schools across the world.
In 1990, Ken Schoolland ran for the United States Senate as a Libertarian candidate. He received 4,787 votes for 1.4% of the total vote.[1]
In 2008 Schoolland added his name as a signatory to the Academics for Ron Paul petition and website, declaring his support for the 2008 Presidential candidate.[2]
