Education
Born in Emmett, Idaho, Pope has a bachelor"s degree from Brigham Young University (Brigham Young University) and an Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago.
Born in Emmett, Idaho, Pope has a bachelor"s degree from Brigham Young University (Brigham Young University) and an Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago.
He served for a time as the president of the Brigham Young University 3rd Stake. Pope has been on the faculty of Brigham Young University since 1970. Prior to that he was a lecturer at the University of Michigan for a year.
In the summer of 1977 Pope was a visiting lecturer at the College of William and Mary and he was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University in 1979.
He also served for a time as the dean of the College of Home Family and Social Sciences at Brigham Young University. Pope has advocated the use of higher prices to reduce energy consumption. In 2009 a Pope Professorship in Economics was created in the Brigham Young University College of Family, Home and Social Sciences.
The first recipient was James B. McDonald.