James Peoples

James H. Peoples Jr. (born May 14, 1959) is an American economist who is a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and a former president of the National Economic Association and the Transportation and Public Utilities Group. He is an expert in the economics of transportation and transportation labor issues.
Education and early life.
Peoples grew up in Los Angeles. He graduated from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1979 and received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 1984.
Career.
Peoples taught at Rutgers University from 1984-1990, and has been on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee since then. He has been president of the American Economic Association’s Transportation and Public Utilities Group and the National Economic Association.