Ken Schoolland

University Professor

Ken Schoolland

University Professor

Ken Schoolland is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at Hawai‘i Pacific University in Honolulu.
Schoolland served as an international economist in the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and on assignment to the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. He taught at Sheldon Jackson College in Alaska and on a university exchange program at Hakodate University in Japan. He later became Director of the Master of Science in Japanese Business Studies Program at Chaminade University.
Schoolland is a Sam Walton Fellow for ENACTUS, a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and on the Board of Scholars for the Grassroot Institute of Hawai‘i, and he has authored two books: The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey, now published in 53 languages, and Shogun's Ghost: The Dark Side of Japanese Education, in 2 languages.

Articles by Ken Schoolland

Combating Violent Extremism & Authoritarianism Through Ideas of Free Trade & Economy

Interventionist economic and protectionist policies, often justified as anti-communist or humanitarian, have paradoxically bolstered authoritarian regimes and deepened poverty in the Global South. True resistance…