KEN MCCORMICK

Short Curriculum Vitae, 2006

CURRENT POSITION: Professor of Economics, University of

Northern Iowa, 1991 - Present

PREVIOUS POSITIONS: Associate Professor of Economics, UNI, 1986-91

Assistant Professor of Economics, UNI, 1982-86

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:

University of California at Riverside (1972 - 1976)

BA in Economics and Urban Studies

GRADUATE EDUCATION:

Iowa State University (1977 - 1982)

Ph.D. in Economics

Primary fields: History of Economic Thought and Public Finance

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Books

McCormick, Ken, Veblen in Plain English: A Complete Introduction to Thorstein Veblen’s Economics, Youngstown, New York: Cambria Press, 2006.

2. Book Chapters

McCormick, Ken and Janet Rives, “Aggregate Demand in Principles Textbooks,” in B. Bhaskara Rao (editor), Essays on Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply, London: Macmillan, 1998.

3. Refereed Journal Articles That Have Been Reprinted in Books

McCormick, Ken, “Duesenberry and Veblen: The Demonstration Effect Revisited,” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 1125‑1129, Dec. 1983. Reprinted in John Cunningham Wood (editor) Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments, Vol. III, London, Routledge, pp. 491-494, 1993.

McCormick, Ken, “Veblen on the Nature of Capital,” Rivista Internazionale Di Scienze Economiche E Commercialli, Vol. 36, No. 7, pp. 609-622, July 1989. Reprinted in John Cunningham Wood (editor) Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments, Vol. I, London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 659-671. Also reprinted in Rick Tilman (editor), The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen, Vol. III, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2003, pp. 317-329.

4. Other Articles and Notes in Refereed Journals

McCormick, Ken, “Madmen in Authority: Adolf Hitler and the Malthusian Population Thesis,” Journal of Economics, Forthcoming.

McCormick, Ken, “Veblen and the New Growth Theory: Community as the Source of Capital’s Productivity,” Review of Social Economy, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 263-77, June, 2002.

Brown, Kenneth H., McCormick, Ken and Fred Abraham, “The Principles of Macroeconomics Course as an Early Predictor of Undergraduate Business School Performance,” Journal of the Academy of Business Education, Vol.3, pp. 61-69, Fall, 2002.

McCormick, Ken, “The Tao of Laissez Faire,” Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp 331-341, Summer 1999.

McCormick, Ken, “Sima Qian and Adam Smith,” Pacific Economic Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 85-87, February 1999.

McCormick, Ken, “An Essay on the Origin of the Rational Utility Maximization Hypothesis and a Suggested Modification,” Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 17-30, Winter 1997.

Yousefi, Mahmood, Abizadeh, Sohrab, and Ken McCormick, “Monetary Stability and Interest-Free Banking: The Case of Iran,” Applied Economics, Vol. 29, pp. 869-876, 1997.

Hakes, David R. and Ken McCormick, “Did Smith Address Ricardian Equivalence Before Ricardo?” Eastern Economic Journal, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 57-61, Winter 1996.

Yousefi, Mahmood, McCormick, Ken and Sohrab Abizadeh, “Islamic Banking and Friedman's Rule,” Review of Social Economy, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 63-87, Spring 1995.

Adams, Roy D. and Ken McCormick, “The Traditional Distinction Between Public and Private Goods Needs to be Expanded, Not Abandoned,” Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 5, No.1, pp. 109-116, January 1993.

Abraham, Fred and Ken McCormick, “Interest's Share of National Income,” Journal of Economics, Vol. 18, pp. 113-117, Dec. 1992.

Adams, Roy D. and Ken McCormick, “Fashion Dynamics and the Economic Theory of Clubs,” Review of Social Economy, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 24-39, Spring 1992.

Hansen, Richard B., McCormick, Ken and Janet Rives, “The Law of Increasing Cost and Increasing Cost Industries,” Rivista Internazionale Di Scienze Economiche E Commercialli, Vol. 37, No. 9, pp. 851-855, Sept. 1990.

McCormick, Ken, “An Essay on the Assumption of Rational Behavior in Economics,” Review of Social Economy, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 313-321, Fall 1989.

McCormick, Ken, “Veblen on the Nature of Capital,” Rivista Internazionale Di Scienze Economiche E Commercialli, Vol. 36, No. 7, pp. 609-622, July 1989. This paper was reprinted in John Cunningham Wood (editor) Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments, Vol. I, London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 659-671. It is also reprinted in Rick Tilman (editor), The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen, Vol. III, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2003, pp. 317-329.

McCormick, Ken, “Important Parallels Between Veblen and Keynes,” Journal of Economics, pp. 116-121, Vol. 14, 1988.

Raiklin, Ernest and Ken McCormick, “Three Views of Productive Labor,” Journal of Economics, Vol. 14, pp. 141-144, 1988.

Raiklin, Ernest and Ken McCormick, “Smith's View of Wealth Accumulation: A Dichotomy,” Journal of Economics, Vol.13, pp. 80‑82, Dec. 1987.

Adams, Roy D. and Ken McCormick, “Private Goods, Club Goods, and Public Goods as a Continuum,” Review of Social Economy, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 192‑199, Oct. 1987.

Hansen, Richard B., McCormick, Ken and Janet Rives, “The Aggregate Demand Curve: A Reply,” Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 47‑50, Winter 1987.

McCormick, Ken, “Towards a Definition of Waste in Economics: A Neoinstitutional Approach,” Review of Social Economy, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 80‑92, April 1986.

Hansen, Richard B., McCormick, Ken and Janet Rives, “The Aggregate Demand Curve and Its Proper Interpretation,” Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 287‑296, Fall 1985.

McCormick, Ken, “Duesenberry and Veblen: The Demonstration Effect Revisited,” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 1125‑1129, Dec. 1983. This paper was reprinted in John Cunningham Wood (editor) Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments, Vol. III, London, Routledge, pp. 491-494, 1993.

McCormick, Ken and Roy D. Adams, “The Equilibrium Configuration of Autonomous Emergency Public Service Districts,” Journal of Economics, Vol. 8, pp. 21‑28, Dec. 1982.

5. Refereed Proceedings

Yousefi, Mahmood and Ken McCormick, “Interest-Free Banking: A Convergence of Religious and Economic Principles?” Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference, Academy of Business Administration, pp. 167-174.

6. Articles in Editor Reviewed Journals

McCormick, Ken, “Veblen and Globalization: A Comment on Wellington and Zandvakili,” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 33, No. 7, 2006.

McCormick, Ken, “An Essay on the Alleged Death of Socialism,” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 17, No. 11, Nov. 1990, pp. 36-41.

Raiklin, Ernest and Ken McCormick, “The Conditional View of the Neoclassical and Marxist Approaches to the Concept of Productive Labor,” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1989, pp. 13-26.

Raiklin, Ernest and Ken McCormick, “Soviet Men on the Road to Utopia: A Moral‑Psychological Sketch,” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 15, No. 10, 1988, pp. 3‑62.

McCormick, Ken, “A Note on Leibenstein's Veblen Effect,” History of Economics Society Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 1, Summer 1986, pp. 38‑39.

7. Book Reviews

McCormick, Ken: Richard W. Lindholm and Arthur D. Lynn, Jr. (Editors), Land Value Taxation: The Progress and Poverty Centenary, in History of Political Economy, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 1986, p. 353.

McCormick, Ken: Steven B. Cord, Henry George: Dreamer or Realist?, in History of Political Economy, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 1986, pp. 184‑185.

8. Non-Refereed Proceedings

Yousefi, Mahmood and Ken McCormick, “An Assessment of Ethical Attitudes Towards Wealth Accumulation,” published in Humanomics, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1994.

9. Monographs

McCormick, Ken, Export Instability in LDCs: An Annotated Bibliography, Latin American Planning Network Project: Ames, 1979.

EXTERNAL GRANTS RECEIVED:

“The Works of Adam Smith,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for School Teachers, July 4 - July 29, 1994, $56,109.

“The Works of Adam Smith,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for School Teachers, July 5 - July 29, 1993, $54,566.

“The Works of Adam Smith,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars for School Teachers, July 10 ‑ Aug. 3, 1989, $45,805.