Howard Baetjer Jr.

Howard Baetjer Jr. is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Towson University in Towson, Maryland, where he teaches courses in microeconomics, comparative economic systems, and money and banking. He is currently working on a book explaining the market-process approach to public policy analysis.  Dr. Baetjer is also a frequent faculty member at IHS Summer Seminars.

Dr. Baetjer earned a B.A. in psychology from Princeton in 1974, an M.Litt. in English literature from the University of Edinburgh in 1980, an M.A. in political science from Boston College in 1984, and a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University in 1993. His dissertation, written under the direction of Professor Don Lavoie, was published as Software as Capital: an Economic Perspective on Software Engineering by IEEE Computer Society in 1998.

Baetjer is also a founding trustee of Children's Scholarship Fund Baltimore, which, as of June 2006, is providing partial scholarships to 540 low-income Baltimore children, to help them attend private and parochial schools their parents choose.

Dr. Baetjer's favorite recreational activities are skiing and sailing, in J/24 and 505 class sailboats. He lives in Baltimore with his wife Susan, an attorney.