Kentucky Fried Redux

Speaking of non-economists, a couple of things of which to be aware if you encounter Tony Gamboa or any of his cohorts at Vocational Economics, Inc. (V.E.):

Gamboa now lists an MBA from the University of Chicago on his resume. In fact, what he received was an Executive MBA. The Executive MBA program is a "part-time course of advanced studies in management" designed for "middle-and-upper level executives." Except for an initial week on Campus, courses are taught at the GSB Downtown Center on Fridays and Saturdays every other week. Vocational Economics "analysts" also include on their resumes several "post-doctorate" courses in economics at the University of Nevada. It is difficult to understand how one can do post-doctoral work in a field in which one doesn’t have a doctorate, but nevertheless, the University of Nevada courses are one-week seminars set up for just such "analysts" and are not remotely close to the level of a graduate course in economics. T. Nick Fenger, a former associate who also lacks a degree in economics, described the Las Vegas experience in more detail in a deposition in July 1993. Fenger said the course was an informal self-directed kind of seminar course taught by someone named Larry and that there were 25 attendees, all of whom were V.E. analysts. Stanley R. Hunton, a V.E. analyst who also attended one of the Las Vegas seminars, provided further insight into the content of the "course" in an October 1996 deposition. In addition to confirming that only V.E. analysts attended the seminar, Hunton stated that the seminar was "just a general introduction to the whole field of economics." We contacted the UNLV Economics Department this month and were told that they did not now nor had they ever offered seminars or quick courses, only their regular semester courses for credit. In addition, we were informed that if anyone was saying that there was a one-week course, "that course" was not affiliated with the University.