Background
Mayer, Peter Conrad was born on March 16, 1938 in Baltimore. Son of Joseph E. and Maria (Goeppert) Mayer.
Mayer, Peter Conrad was born on March 16, 1938 in Baltimore. Son of Joseph E. and Maria (Goeppert) Mayer.
Peter C. Mayer followed his father to Caltech, graduating in physics. However, although he has used his natural science education in some of his work and is using it in his retirement, he never was a practicing physicist. He followed his father to grad school at the University of California at Berkeley, but earned his Ph.D. in a very different field, economics.
Assistant professor economics Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1968-1971, University Guam, Mangilao, 1971-1974, associate professor, 1982-1984. Senior economist Guam Department Commerce, Tamuning, 1974-1980, chief economist, 1981-1982. Assistant professor University Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1980-1981.
Consultant on statistics Government of Guam, Agana, 1984-1985. Foreign expert Shanghai University Financial and Economics, People's Republic China, 1985-1986. Foreign teacher economics Kobe (Japan) University, 1986-1989.
Senior economist Guam Department of Commerce, Tamuning, 1989-1994, Guam Power Authority, Agana, 1994-1998. Associate professor economics Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, since 1998. Consultant, expert witness United States Department Justice, Agana, 1983.
In semi-retirement, he amused himself by making economic models of animal behavior. His first venture into biology, "Economic Models of Fish Shoal (School) Size" in Journal of Bioeconomics, has one characteristic of his father's single venture into biology as a joint author. Both papers are written like a patent.
Guam's Tax System, 1976,
Guam's Generating Option, 1982,
Notes on Tax Reform Northern 1: How to Encourage Home Ownership, 1990,
Notes on Tax Reform Northern 2: Liquor Taxation and Alcohol Abuse Among Youth, 1991.
Columnist Pacific Sun News, 1973-1974
(Guam's Tax System, 1976, Guam's Generating Option, 198...)
Member American Economic Association, Western Economic Association International
Peter C. Mayer was the son of chemist, Joseph E. Mayer and Nobel Prize winning physicist, Maria Goeppert Mayer; Married Mary Fay Marmon on August 23, 1974.
