Dr. Robby Rosenman     

         School of Economic Sciences   
         Washington State University     
         Pullman, WA 99164-6210     

 

Quotes I like (an ongoing list):

Alfred Adler on the relationship between teaching and research.

"She was ... often wrong, but never uncertain."  Robert B. Parker in Perish Twice .

"Science is built up from facts, as a house is with stones.  But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house." Henri Poincare

"I'm a penguin.  We're not sure what we believe in." Opus

"Ah, life's meaning.  Maybe it is not so much found ... as it is made." Opus

"...having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged ... to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.  It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more attention to the judgment of others."  Benjamin Franklin.

"No one who is a professor and receives his support from the larger community can rightfully be unmindful of his obligation to it."  physicist/philosopher John Wheeler.

"My brain is open."  Paul Erdos, itinerant mathematician.

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you've imagined."  Henry David Thoreau

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou Must, The youth replies, I can." Ralph Waldo Emerson, just prior to the Civil War.

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." Henry Kissinger

A Link to the Meaning of Life

One more thing

Research and areas of interest:
I came to WSU in 1983, working mostly on natural resources and environmental topics.. My current research interests are in Health Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Microeconomics. I am also interested in Forensic Economics and Natural Resources.

Teaching:
I teach all levels of Applied Microeconomics and Econometrics. I sometimes teach Principles of Macroeconomics. Follow my class threads to see how I use the Web for teaching.

Other interests:
I read (mostly physics and other science), hike, canoe and raft.  Until my knees went I was a squash player and studied Shito Ryu karate with Sensei Pat Cruver of Nihon Karate Do - Kenwa Kai (Pullman branch). Now I spend every morning on an exercise bicycle.


 

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