Clayne L. Pope (born October 29, 1940) is the Zina Card Williams Young professor of economics at

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(BYU) and specializes in 19th century

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. Born in

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, Pope has a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University (BYU) and an MA and PhD from the

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. Pope is a member of

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(LDS Church). He served for a time as the

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. Pope has been on the faculty of BYU since 1970. Prior to that he was a lecturer at the

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for a year. In the summer of 1977 Pope was a visiting lecturer at the

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and he was a visiting lecturer at

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in 1979. He also served for a time as the dean of the College of Home Family and Social Sciences at BYU. Pope has advocated the use of higher prices to reduce energy consumption.paper advocating price increases
/ref> In 2009 a Clayne L. Pope Professorship in Economics was created in the BYU College of Family, Home and Social Sciences. The first recipient was James B. McDonald.

Publications

*''The Impact of the Ante-Bellum Tariff of Income Distribution''. Arno Press, 1975. *"The Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City: A Source of Data for Economic and Social Historians" with Larry T. Wimmer in ''Historical Methods'' 8 (March 1975) no. 2. p. 51-58. *"The Church and The Secular World: Freedom and Equality" (with James R. Kearl) in

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and Douglas Tobler, ed. ''Mormonism: A Faith for All Cultures'' 1978. *''Choices, Rents and Luck: Economic Mobility in 19th Century Utah Households'' with James R. Kearl. 1986. *''Economy, Society and Public Policy'' with Larry T. Wimmer. Morton Publishing Company, 1976. *''American Heritage'' with Frank W. Fox. *"Precedence and Wealth: Evidence from 19th Century Utah" with

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. 1992 *"The Height of Union Army Recruits" with Sven Wilson in ''Health and Labor Force Participation Over The Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past'' Dora L. Costa, ed., January 2003

Notes

References

*'' Church News'', April 16, 1994.
Open Library entry for PopeNational Bureau of Economics Research list of publications by PopePope's vita
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