Background
Shafer, Joseph Ernest was born on April 25, 1903 in Bluffton, Indiana, United States. Son of Otis Ernest and Ida March (Taylor) Shafer.
writer Economics educator emeritus
Shafer, Joseph Ernest was born on April 25, 1903 in Bluffton, Indiana, United States. Son of Otis Ernest and Ida March (Taylor) Shafer.
Bachelor of Arts, DePauw University, 1925; Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1929; Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1932.
Special study labor problems, working incognito as factory laborer, 1925-1926; assistant instructor economics, University of Wisconsin, 1929-1932; associate professor economics, head department, college mines branch, University Texas, 1932-1935; associate professor economics, Bowling Green State University, 1935-1946; economist district office, OPA, 1943-1944; restaurant price branch, OPA, Washington, 1944-1946; professor economics, U. N.H., 1946-1960; department chairman, U. N.H., 1946-1949; professor economics, business administration, Alaska Methodist U., 1960-1970; director summer sessions, Alaska Methodist U., 1961-1965; dean College Business Administration and Economics, Alaska Methodist U., 1965-1970; professor emeritus, Alaska Methodist U., 1970-1994. Visiting research professor economics New York University Graduate School Business Administration, summer1956.
Trustee Alaska Mutual Savings Bank, 1963-1973. Member American Economics Association, Congress Political Economists, Society for Advancement Socio-Economics, Rotary.
Son of; married Emily Cornell Marine, June 10, 1926 (deceased). Children: Sue Elizabeth (Mistress Harlow G. Farmer, Junior), Thayer Cornell. Married Wilda Swango Jones, February 14, 1993.