Warren C. Gibson, Ph.D., P.E.

Class pages

• ECON 136, International Economics, Spring 2012

Sundry images:

1928 gold certificate

William Bouguereau, "Irene"

Ludwig von Mises (1880-1972), dean of the Austrian school of economics

Soprano Deborah Voigt

Yours truly

Publications

• Sardines at Midnight
• Shoot the Shorts
• What's Up with Inflation?
• Making Whistle-Blowing Pay
• Boombustology: a review
• An Act of Self-Defense: a Review
• Who Owns the Fed?
• Gold and Money, Part 1 and Part 2
• GDP: Who Needs It?
• The Rise and Fall of Glass-Steagal, with Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
• Inside Insider Trading
• Rare Earth Elements: Stockpile or Markets?
• Bank Deregulation: Friend or Foe?
• Federal Deposit Insurance: A Banking System Built on Sand
• The Long and Short of Short Selling
• When a Computer Filled a Room
• Confessions of a Planning Commissioner
• Mises: the Three Strands
• Review of "Liberal Fascism"

Links

University web sites

• Economics department, San Jose State University.
• Case School of Engineering (my Alma Mater)
  
• School of Engineering, Santa Clara University.

Philosophy, politics and economics

• Mises Institute, dedicated to the life and work of economist Ludwig von Mises and his followers in the modern-day Austrian school of economics.
• Foundation for Economic Education, the original libertarian think tank.
• Econlib, a project of the Liberty Fund.
• Atlas Society dedicated to the philosophy of the last century's greatest novelist, Ayn Rand.
• Econ Journal Watch, an on-line journal of economics edited by Dan Klein.
• The Independent Institute, one of the best libertarian think tanks.

Engineering and science

• howstuffworks.com has explanations of all things technical.
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• CSA Engineering, Inc., the company that I co-founded in 1982.
• A string theory site for non-scientists.
• The Computer History Museum in Mt. View, CA

Fine art

• Quent Cordair Fine Art. My favorite retail art gallery, located in Napa, CA.
• The Art Renewal Center, an amazing on-line gallery of romantic paintings and sculpture.

Fun stuff

• The Western Railway Museum near Rio Vista, CA, has restored many electric railway vehicles that you can ride and has an extensive archives department and bookstore.
  
• Linux links is a good place to start learning about the free Linux operating system.
  
• History of the Ford Thunderbird