Gordon Wagner (economist)

Gordon Eric Wagner is an American economist and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who worked in the 1970s and 1980s to apply LDS cooperative principles to agricultural development in Africa.

Wagner received an M.S. from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1966^[1] and a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University in 1977, writing his dissertation on social and economic cooperation.^[2]

In the 1960s, Wagner was a professor of economics at BYU, and was one of several faculty investigated by university administration and student informants to evaluate their socialist and communist leanings.^[3] In the 1970s, he was a professor of economics at Wells College in Aurora, New York and also participated in the Committee on Mormon Society and Culture (supported by BYU's Anthropology Department).^[4][5]

Later, in the 1990s, Wagner worked as consultant for USAID in Uganda.^[6]

Notes

1. ^ A statistical analysis of Provo City's parking mall. [masters thesis]. Brigham Young University. 1966. http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/X/0/0/123/?srchfield1=TI^TITLE^SERIES^^keyword+anywhere&query_type=keyword&user_id=WEBSERVER&new_gatewaydb=ILINK&library=ALL&searchdata1=A%20statistical%20analysis%20of%20Provo%20City%27s%20parking%20mall. Retrieved 2009-04-21. 
2. ^ Consecration and Stewardship: A Socially Efficient System of Justice. [doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University. January 1977. http://books.google.com/books?id=O9ILHAAACAAJ. Retrieved 2009-04-21. 
3. ^ Gary James Bergera; Ronald Priddis (1985). "Partisan Politics & the University". Brigham Young University: A House of Faith. Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books. http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org/byu/chapter5.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-21. 
4. ^ "Economics and the Mormon Culture" (PDF). Newsletter (Provo, Utah: Committee on Mormon Society and Culture) (2). 1975. http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/files/1975-2b-CMSC-text.pdf. Retrieved 2009-04-21. ^{[dead link]}
5. ^ "Consecration and Stewardship Study" (PDF). Newsletter (Provo, Utah: Committee on Mormon Society and Culture) (1). 1977. http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/files/1977-1-CMSC-text.pdf. Retrieved 2009-04-21. ^{[dead link]}
6. ^ (PDF) The Northern Uganda Food Security Project (DERO). Cooperative Office for Voluntary Organisations (COVOL). February 27, 2008. http://www.covol-uganda.org/downloads/COVOL-DERO-Project-Achievements-and-Impacts-1997-1999.pdf. Retrieved 2009-04-21. 

Sources

• Lightplanet article on Mormons and Agriculture, taken from Encyclopedia of Mormonism article on "Agriculture"
• T. Allen Lambert. "Zion Building: Writing About it and Doing It," FARMS Review, Vol. 9, Issue 2.

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