Douglas Downing

Douglas Downing has written 15 books, including

Freedom, Opportunity, and Security: Economic Policy

and the Political System, published in 2015, and a trilogy of math textbooks

(Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus) written as fantasy adventure novels.

He is a co-author of Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms and Business

Statistics and has written other books on math and computer programming.

He has taught economics and quantitative methods at the

School of Business, Government, and Economics at Seattle Pacific University

since 1983. He studied at Yale, earning a B.S. with double majors in

economics/political science and astronomy/physics in 1979, and a Ph.D. in

economics in 1987. He has also been a leader for study abroad trips in China.

His mother Peggy wrote children’s books (The Exitorn Series) and

his father Robert was business director at a public school district.

Home page and blog links:

http://myhome.spu.edu/ddowning