Alpha C. Chiang received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1954, after earning a B.A. in 1946 from St. John’s University (Shanghai, China) and M.A. in 1948 from the University of Colorado. In 1954 he joined the faculty of Denison University in Ohio, where he assumed the Chairmanship of the Department of Economics in 1961. From 1964 on, he taught at the University of Connecticut where, after twenty-eight years, he became Professor Emeritus of Economics in 1992. He also held visiting professorships at New Asia College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cornell University, Lingnan University in Hong Kong, and Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. His publications include another book on mathematical economics: Elements of Dynamic Optimization, Waveland Press, Inc., 1992. Among the honors he received are the Ford Foundation and National Science Foundation fellowships, election to the presidency of the Ohio Association of Economists and Political Scientists, 1963–64, and listing in Who’s Who in Economics: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Economists 1900–1994, MIT Press.

Kevin Wainwright is a faculty member of the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, B.C., Canada. Since 2001, he has served as president of the faculty association and program head in the Business Administration program. He did his graduate studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., Canada and continues to teach in the Department of Economics. He specializes in Microeconomic Theory and Mathematical Economics.