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After receiving his Ph.D. from
the University of Oregon, Professor Yung Yang began his career at CSU,
Sacramento as a 28 year old Assistant Professor. Professor Yang has taught
in the Economics Department for 33 years and at the end of this semester he
will retire.
Professor Yang has been doing a
lot of background reading on the history of thought in economics and on
Christianity and he will continue to do this after he retires. He will still do research, but the focus
may not be on his usual research topics on international economics and
development with applications of econometrics. Instead, he is doing more work related to
his background readings and has completed a paper on the nature of man from
economic and theological perspectives.
“As my knowledge accumulates in the areas where economics and
religion merge, I hope to continue to write. In this connection, I have been taking
theology courses at the Fuller Theological Seminary since 2004 and will
continue to do this.”
In addition to reading and being a student at the Seminary, Professor Yang will also have
more time for his hobbies which include golfing and fishing.
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“My
happiest memories of CSUS include the times spent with two old good friends, John
Ranlett and Al Gutowsky at meal times and on fishing trips. I also have enjoyed meeting up with former
students - who went on to Ph.D. programs - at the AEA meetings. Two good examples are David Skanderson
(University of Rochester, Ph.D.), now an executive VP at a prestigious
consulting group; and Scott Schuh (Johns-Hopkins, Ph.D.), now a senior economist and policy advisor
at the Boston Fed.”
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