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Louis A. Rose
Professor, UH-Manoa Economics, 1969 - 1999
Lou Rose was hired as an Acting Assistant Professor by the U.H. Department of Economics in 1969. He received promotion to Assistant Professor in 1970 when he completed his Ph.D. from UCLA under Armen Alchian. He taught in the department full-time except for a one-semester leave at the Economic Research Center in 1970. In 1974 (?) he was promoted to Associate Professor. His first sabbatical was at the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC (1975-76); the second sabbatical was at Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and MIT in Cambridge, MA (1982-83). Lou was promoted to Full Professor in 1989 (?). His third sabbatical was at the University of Reading, U.K. (1990); the fourth sabbatical was at Barnard College (Columbia University) in New York City. He retired after 30 years of service in 1999.
Lou's teaching interests were in applied microeconomics. At the undergraduate level he taught microeconomic principles, intermediate price theory, urban economics, industrial organization, transportation and utilities regulation, law and economics, mathematical economics. At the graduate level he taught urban economics and microeconomics.
His research interests were in the economics of land, housing, transportation, the environment, taxation, and regulation - particularly in the context of urban development. This area might be called the economics underlying urban planning. He published articles in Journal of Urban Economics, Economic Inquiry, Land Economics, Urban Studies, National Tax Journal, Western Economic Journal and Journal of Economic Education.
Lou gave his time to many community concerns, testifying on many occasions at the Honolulu City Council, State Legislature and before the Governor in relation to urban transportation, state government organization, budget and finance, housing, taxation and regulation of development. He served the Department of Economics as Graduate Chair for several years.
Lou married Joan Rose in 1961. Joan was the art columnist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin and later for the Honolulu Advertiser for eight years. Lou and Joan will celebrate their 45th anniversary in 2006. They have one daughter, Shanna, who graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College (1997) and has a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard (2005); beginning in fall 2006 she will be an Assistant Professor of Political Science at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service in Manhattan. At retirement in 1999, Lou and Joan sold their Lanikai home and left Hawaii. Since then they have been backpacking around the world, except for winters when they rent a beachside apartment near Santa Cruz, CA. Since retirement in 1999, they have traveled through about 45 countries - mostly in the Third World. They have published several travel articles in the Honolulu Advertiser on their post-retirement trips, including articles on The Old Silk Road, Irian Jaya (New Guinea) and the Galapagos. If you'd like to check out the Roses' travels, see their website: www.ramblingroses.net.
Lou's retirement party was a departure from the norm. Joan arrived without him, explaining that he was parking the car. With her was Lou's brother - a CPA who'd flown in from southern California, who had a good time talking with various faculty members about their work with Lou. Eventually this "Kenneth" admitted he was really Lou impersonating a brother who doesn't exist! Lou had shaved his beard of 30 years, dyed his hair dark brown, disguised his voice, and posed as this fictitious brother for about an hour before confessing the deception. Some faculty members are probably still mad at him!
Lou Rose
Santa Cruz, California
March 2006
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