Bill Barber has been teaching Economics and Business courses to college students for nearly forty years. He has served as a Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs during the course of his career. He has a particular interest in economic history and the evolution of economic ideas. He believes the current political debate about the merits of Capitalism versus Socialism was an inevitable destination we had to arrive at in order to resolve fundamental economic disagreements that have existed for almost 200 years. He received his PhD in Economics from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.