{"id":438,"date":"2015-06-16T12:20:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=438"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:05:00","slug":"brandon-bj-unti","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/staff\/brandon-bj-unti\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon (BJ) Unti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I joined BC in 2013, making me the newest member of the economics team. As a Portland native I am thrilled to be home in the northwest. After earning my BA from Portland State University, I pursued my Ph.D. at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. My dissertation research is ongoing and focuses on addressing economic and ecological crises in the context of degrowth.<\/p>\n<p>Economics plays a key role in shaping society, politics, our daily lives, and the planet. For this reason I believe it is crucial that everyone has access to the basic tools required to critically examine economic theory and policy. As a teacher, my number one goal is to get students to ask questions, think, and develop their own arguments. Economics is also a discipline riddled with controversy. Exploring the controversy makes it exciting. I do not claim to be objective, but I present multiple perspectives in every course, drawing on mainstream and heterodox schools of thought.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of school, I love to spend time outdoors with my dog. The northwest is a playground for all of my favorite activities whether it is surfing, mountain biking, fly-fishing, climbing, camping, or just exploring our beautiful landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":431,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-438","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/438\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}