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Rocky Mirza was born in the English colony of Guyana. As the third oldest of 12 children he was forced to end his formal education at 14 to supplement the family income with a full time job at the post office. Rocky emigrated to London at the age of 18. The transition from rural life in a Third World country to life in one of the world's major... more »

Rocky Mirza was born in the English colony of Guyana. As the third oldest of 12 children he was forced to end his formal education at 14 to supplement the family income with a full time job at the post office. Rocky emigrated to London at the age of 18. The transition from rural life in a Third World country to life in one of the world's major metropolis' was surprisingly easy. Rocky worked briefly in the British civil service as an executive officer after completing his secondary education through a combination of distance education and evening classes. Three years employment in London qualified Rocky for a municipal grant which financed his undergraduate honors degree from London University.

Rocky returned to Guyana to work as an economist with the Ministry of Economic Development and teach part-time at the University of Guyana. He was disillusioned with Guyana's slow pace of economic development and emigrated to Canada. A teaching assistantship financed his Ph.D. in economics at Simon Fraser University. He joined the economics faculty of Thompson Rivers University in 1980. He has co-authored both a Principles of Microeconomics and a Principles of Macroeconomics textbook. « less