Dr. John W. Helmuth was an agricultural economist, writer, and consultant from Kansas City, Missouri. He served as an economic expert in numerous legal proceedings on behalf of agricultural producers advocating the importance of fair competition in agricultural markets. While he was writing Voices Rise from the LAND he lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Winner of the Aaron Wildavsky Book Award for outstanding economic policy books published since 1975, Dr. Helmuth lived in Ukraine in 1996 and 1997, served as economic advisor to Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine, and directed a project to establish competitive agricultural commodity exchanges. He has also served as economic advisor to the Agriculture committee of the Russian Parliament. From 1991 to 1997, he worked primarily in Ukraine and Russia, as well as Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
From 1987 through 1996 Dr. Helmuth held various positions
with the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) of Iowa
State University, most recently as Director of International Programs.
Prior to his position at ISU, Dr. Helmuth was
Chief Economist for the Committee on Small Business of the US House of
Representative where he directed an extensive investigation of the US
livestock and meatpacking industries under the Chairmanship of Congressman
Neal Smith of Iowa. Dr. Helmuth also conducted investigations of
grain and livestock futures markets for the Committee.
Dr. Helmuth held positions with the US Department
of Agriculture and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He
served as Executive Director of the 1988 World Food Conference and has
been a commodity futures broker.
Dr. Helmuth held a Ph.D. in agricultural economics and B.A. in mathematics from the University of Missouri, and an M.S. in agricultural economics from the University of Connecticut.
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As this book went to press, it was learned that author-economist, John Helmth, had passed away. In many respects this novel reflected his life's work, in advancing the cause of economic free markets-- and it is this book which reflects that part of his legacy.
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