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Ken Schoolland is presently an associate professor of economics and political science at Hawaii Pacific University. Prior to this he was the Director of he Master of Science in Japanese Business Studies programme at Chaminade University of Honolulu and head of the Business and Economics Programme at Hawaii Loa College. Following his graduate studies at Georgetown University, he served as an international economist in the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Commerce and on assignment to the White House, Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. Ken left government for the field of education, teaching business and economics at Sheldon Jackson College in Alaska. He also taught at Hakodate University in Japan and wrote shogun’s Ghost: The Dark side of Japanese Education, which has been published in English and in Japanese. Ken is a member of the Board of Director for the International society for Individual Liberty and is a Sam Walton Fellow for Students in Free Enterprise. He has traveled extensively observing cultures, traditions and economies in many countries around the world. Stephen Browne, Director of the Liberty English Camp in Lithuania, once summed up Prof. Schoolland’s character by saying. “As soon as Ken sits down in any given place long enough, a child is going to come up to him from somewhere and want to sit on his lap, or a teenager is going to come by and want him for a game of basketball.” Such is the author of The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey.