Dr. John Gross

Dr. John Gross knew he was a PROUTist as soon as he encountered Prout discourses in the mid-1970s. Inspired by PROUT, he chose to leave his career as a carpenter and return to university to complete his undergraduate degree in Economics.

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As his studies progressed, he quickly realized that both his understanding of economics and his understanding of PROUT were still incomplete. This realization led him to enter the Ph.D. program in Economics at the University of Michigan, where he specialized in Public Economics and Econometrics. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 and has also conducted extensive work in applied microeconomics.

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Throughout his career, Dr. Gross has taught economics at every level, from introductory principles courses to Ph.D.-level seminars, and has supervised doctoral dissertations. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Marquette University, and Duke University. He has also published in several elite economics journals and served as a referee for leading academic publications.

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Over the course of his academic and professional life, Dr. Gross has met and worked with several world-renowned economists. Yet nothing in his experience has altered his conviction that no economist, social scientist, or thinker in any field compares with P.R. Sarkar. For this reason, he continues to marvel at and strive to more deeply understand PROUT.