• Doctorate in Economics, University of Bremen, Germany, 1976.
  Thesis: The Pricing of OPEC Crude Oil – An Analysis of the Determinants

• Masters Degree in Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany, 1976
  Thesis: The Interdependence of the Oil-Producing and Oil-Consuming Nations

English, German, Farsi and Dari (the old Iranian language spoken by the Zoroastrians).

My ancestors descended from Zoroastrians, who practiced the first religion of Iran. Zoroastrian principles are good words, good thoughts, and good deeds; it's a very peaceful religion.

Later, my great-grandfather converted to Bahá'i, a socially advanced and peaceful religion. For me, the most striking principles of the Bahá'i Faith are:

• Elimination of all prejudice
• Equality between men and women
• Elimination of extreme poverty and extreme wealth
• Universal education.

In 1980, a year after the Iranian revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran executed my father for refusing to renounce his faith. (A prominent Bahá'i, my father had pioneered to India, where he created the largest Bahá'i community in the world. He was instrumental in purchasing land for the beautiful temple in Bahapur, a New Delhi suburb, which is now the site of the Lotus Temple, one of two attractions featured in India's Ministry of Tourism TV advertising in the United States.) A few weeks after my father's execution, Islamic Republic officials demanded that my mother pay for the bullets used to execute him and that she renounce her faith in order to stay in her house. She paid for the bullets and simply walked out of the house, telling them, “You can have it.” A few months later, she joined me in Miami, Florida, where she lived until she passed away in June 1994.

My beloved late wife, Louise, suffered an untimely and tragic death after being injured in a car accident and ultimately killed by medical malpractice in Miami, Florida in 1978.

My father, Noorullah, who set my intellectual foundation by teaching me to write in Farsi at an advanced level and by planting the idea of economic security in my mind

My mother, Banoo, who taught me not only to survive but to make the best out of difficult times, which ultimately led me to develop the concept of a zero-cost economy. Her unbending will was exemplary.

Mahatma Gandhi, the man with the most powerful words in the world

Tenzing Norgay, the famous Nepalese sherpa (mountaineer) who conquered Mt. Everest and demonstrated that anybody is capable of extraordinary performance

Robert F. Kennedy, compassionate youthful spirit. His ideas about the Gross Domestic Product were revealing and inspiring.

Martin Luther King, America's Gandhi

Malcolm X, who provided true guidance to deprived people

Anwar Sadat, who paid for friendship with his life

Mohammad Ali, a man greater than all of his boxing skills

Chuck Sipes, Mr. World 1968, the most giving person. As a 16-year-old in Iran, I wrote him a letter asking if he'd send me his bodybuilding course at no charge. (I couldn't afford to pay for it.) Chuck sent me the course immediately. His picture still hangs in my office.

Ronald Reagan, for his limitless confidence

Gerald Ford, the most decent U.S. President

Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran, for his drive to rid Iran of backwardness and fanaticism

Mohammad Reza Shah of Iran, for modernizing Iran and being a true friend of America

Carefreeism: Economic Security in a Carefree Economy (currently in preparation). This book is an expansion of “Towards a Zero-Cost Economy: A Blueprint to Create General Economic Security in a Carefree Economy” (available on this website as a free download).

The Final Reckoning: The Islamic Plot to Destroy the Dollar. ARFA Publishing Co., U.S.A.: 1995.

Environomics: The economics of environmentally safe prosperity. Westport, Conn., USA and London: Praeger, 1993.

Oil & Islam: The Ticking Bomb. U.S.A: Roundtable Publishing, 1990.

Vultures: Doctors, Lawyers, Hospitals and Insurance Companies: What's Wrong, and What to Do About It. U.S.A.: Roundtable Publishing, 1990.

Die OPEC im weltwirtschaftlichen Spannungsfeld – Ein Beitrag zur Discussion um die “neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung.” (OPEC and the New World Economic Order). Germany: Weltforum-Verlag, 1976.

Die Oelpreispolitik der OPEC-Laender – Grenzen, Gruende und Hintergruende. (The Oil Price Policy of the OPEC Countries: Limits, Reasons and Backgrounds). Germany: Weltforum-Verlag, 1975.

Die Oelkrisen bedrohen den Wohlstand des Westens. (The Oil Crises Threatening the Prosperity of the West). Germany, 1973 (unpublished manuscript).

Sephahe Danesh dar rahe sazendeghiye roustaha (Education Corps in Building the Villages). Iran: 1964.