Detailed Biography
Jack Soper
 John C. (“Jack”) Soper is the John J. Kahl, Sr., Chair in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Economics in the Boler School of Business at John Carroll University, in Cleveland, Ohio. He has taught monetary and macroeconomics at John Carroll since 1982, after teaching for ten years at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. He was also a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Columbia and at Central Michigan University. He has published two books and more than 50 refereed articles in professional journals. He is the developer of a series of national tests in economics, including the Test of Economic Literacy (used at the high school level throughout the world) and the Test of Economic Knowledge. He has won six national awards including the prestigious Leavey Foundation award for Private Enterprise Education. Soper is a 1965 graduate of Tufts University, majoring in philosophy.
Professor Soper earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is an active member of several national and regional economics organizations, currently serving as President of the Cleveland Association for Business Economics (2005-2006). Soper is married [to Dr. Judith S. Brenneke, another economist], lives in Cleveland Heights [the city that never saw a tax it didn’t love], and has three [more-or-less grown] children.
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