Darius W. Gaskins Jr.

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Darius William Gaskins Jr. (born September 16, 1939 in Washington, DC ) is an American manager and government employee.

Life

At the United States Military Academy at West Point , he made his bachelor's degree in military science in 1961 . Two years later, he received a Master of Science degree in engineering, astronautics and metrology from the University of Michigan . After that he was an instructor at the Aerospace Research Pilots School of the US Air Force until 1967 . He was honored with the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal . In 1970 he graduated as a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. He then was a lecturer in this subject at the University of California, Berkeley until 1973 .

In 1973, Darius W. Gaskins, a registered Democrat, assumed a position in the United States Department of the Interior . He was employed here until 1975 and was most recently responsible for the "Outer continental shelf" area. Then he was again a lecturer in Berkeley for a year until he took up a position in the Federal Trade Commission in 1976 . This was followed in 1977 by a post on the Civil Aeronautics Board . In 1978 he took on a leading position in the Ministry of Energy . In 1979 he was nominated by US President Jimmy Carter for the vacant seat of Virginia Mae Brown in the regulatory agency Interstate Commerce Commission and took office on July 23, 1979 after his Senate confirmation. With effect from January 1, 1980, after the resignation of A. Daniel O'Neal, he became head of this agency. After the failed re-election of Jimmy Carter as US President, he resigned on February 1, 1981 from his post on the Interstate Commerce Commission. He was succeeded by Paul H. Lamboley .

He then worked for a year for the oil and gas company Natomas North America. In 1982 he moved to the Burlington Northern Railroad . He was President and Chief Executive Officer of this company from 1985 to 1989 . In 1988 he received the Railroader of the Year award .

From 1989 to 1991 he was visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University . In 1993 he founded the consulting firm Norbridge Inc., in which he was involved until 2009. He has been involved in the Brigadier Consulting Group since 2010.

He is also Chairman of the Energy Policy Research Foundation and was a board member of Anacomp Inc., Burlington Northern Inc. , Eagle-Picher Industries, Leaseway Transportation Corporation, MidSouth Corporation, Northwestern Steel and Wire Company, Railrunner North America, and UNR Industries. He was chairman of the board of directors of Sapient Corporation from 2008 to 2012.

He is married to Stephanie Richardson and has five children with me.

Essays

  • Dynamic limit pricing: Optimal pricing under threat of entry Journal of Economic Theory, 1971, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 306–322
  • Alcoa revisited: The welfare implications of a secondhand market Journal of Economic Theory, 1974, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp. 254-271
  • A Note on Unilateral Withholding Land Economics, 1979, Volume 55, Issue 1, pp. 135-140
  • Model Comparisons of the Costs of Reducing CO2 Emissions American Economic Review, 1993, Volume 83, Issue 2, pp. 318-23
  • Regulation of Freight Railroads in the Modern Era: 1970-2010 Review of Network Economics, 2008, Volume 7, Issue 4, pp. 1-12

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SURNAME Gaskins, Darius W. Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaskins, Darius William Jr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American manager and government employee
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC