Paul T. Heyne was a lecturer in economics

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 for nearly a quarter century at the University of Washington

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 in Seattle, United States

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.

Heyne received two divinity

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 degrees from Concordia Seminary

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 in St. Louis

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, took his master's degree at Washington University

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 and his Ph.D. in ethics and society at the University of Chicago

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. He came to the UW in 1976, and reportedly turned down a tenured position to become a senior lecturer because of his interest in teaching undergraduates.http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/sept00/heyne.html

Heyne promoted economics through his interests with religion, social issues, justice and free market

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 economies. His best known work was his critically acclaimed introductory textbook

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 The Economic Way of Thinking, which sold 200,000 copies in Russia alone and has been translated in Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and other languages. Heyne was committed to undergraduate education, and was widely regarded as being a highly effective teacher of economics.http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_05_1_obit.pdf

Selected works

• Audio of final public lecture, "The Moral Critics of Capitalism": http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=heyne
• The Economic Way of Thinking: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/pboettke/ewot.html
• "Interest": http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Interest.html
• "Efficiency": http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Efficiency.html
• "In Memoriam: Paul Heyne, 1931-2000": http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=21&articleID=251
• "Limitations of the Economic Way of Thinking": http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/article.php?id=278
• "Researchers and Degree Purchasers: The Classroom Encounter": http://www.the-idea-shop.com/papers/heyne_classroom.htm
• "Do Trade Deficits Matter?" http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj3n3/cj3n3.html
• "Two Approaches to the Question of Justice": http://www.economicthinking.org/paulheyne/justice.html
• "The U.S. Catholic Bishops and the Pursuit Of Justice": http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa050.html
• "The Concept of Economic Justice in Religious Discussion": http://www.the-idea-shop.com/papers/economic-justice.pdf