{"id":1722,"date":"2013-09-25T14:57:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2013-09-25T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:57:43","slug":"jim-breece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/jim-breece\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 80: Professor of economics at the University of Maine James “Jim” Breece"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a080
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0September 21
\nGuest: <\/strong>James\u00a0“Jim” Breece
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

James \u201cJim\u201d Breece, a professor of economics at the University of Maine<\/a>, grew up in rural Pennsylvania and received his Bachelor\u2019s degree in economics from the University of Vermont.\u00a0 He went on to earn his Ph.D. in Economics from Boston College.\u00a0 Breece\u2019s focus areas of research are Macroeconomics, International Trade and Forecasting.\u00a0 During the interview, Breece gave his definition of economics for Stevoe, and also explained that most people want to judge an economy by the unemployment rate, however incorrect that gauge may be.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) discussed Maine’s economy with professor of economics at the University of Maine Jim Breece (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Breece moved to Maine in 1983 and began as Associate Professor of Economics at UMaine.\u00a0 He has held multiple positions for the University of Maine System, including Executive Director of Planning and Policy Analysis, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Policy Analyst.<\/p>\n

In 1990, Breece went on sabbatical to Melbourne, Australia to work as a visiting research scholar in their Impact Research Center and forecast their economy.\u00a0 Breece has also been a consultant to the Economics Department of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Breece became a member of the Maine State Revenue Forecasting Committee in 1992.\u00a0 Breece, being a member of this committee, has spent time studying the change in Maine demographics, as well as Maine\u2019s economy.\u00a0 He has conducted studies on the recession and Maine\u2019s slow recovery, as well as out-migration of Maine\u2019s young people and Maine\u2019s structural deficits.\u00a0 Breece and Stevoe discussed Maine\u2019s rich history\u00a0of risk taking\u00a0entrepreneurs, and the businesses that are currently succeeding with this entrepreneuralship mindset.<\/p>\n

Established in 1865, the University of Maine is referred to as the flagship University of the University of Maine System. \u00a0The University of Maine is the state\u2019s land-grant and sea-grant institution and the state’s only designated research university. UMaine offers 88 bachelor\u2019s degree programs, 70 master\u2019s degree programs, and 30 doctoral programs, with an annual enrollment of approximately 11,000 students.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Breece, professor of economics at the University of Maine, joined TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods for an in-depth discussion about Maine\u2019s economy. Breece told Stevoe about his time spent in Australia and New Zealand during the 90’s, as well as his time studying economics in China and Korea. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}