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BA (1963), PhD (1969), University of Pennsylvania; MA, University of Michigan, 1964

Degrees

• Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1969, Economic History
• M.A. University of Michigan, 1964, History
• B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1963, History

Current Position

W. Bradford Wiley Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus, ������Ƶ, Hamilton, NY

Experience

• W. Bradford Wiley Distinguished Professor of Economics. ������Ƶ, 1990-2017
• Visiting Professorial Fellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, Spring 2012
• Visiting Professorial Fellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, Spring 2011
• Visiting Scholar, Institute for Social Change, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-2000
• Professor of Economics and History, Temple University, 1988-90
• Fulbright Lecturer, Nankai University, People’s Republic of China, Fall 1985
• Visiting Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, Spring 1985
• Professor of Economics, Temple University, 1978-88
• Visiting Professor of Economics, Swarthmore College, Spring 1979
• Fulbright Lecturer, University of Guyana, 1977-78
• Visiting Lecturer, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, Spring 1975
• Associate Professor of Economics, Temple University, 1973-78
• Lecturer and Assistant Research Demographer, International Population and Urban Research, University of California, Berkeley, 1972-3
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Temple University, 1969-72
• Instructor of Economics, Temple University, 1967-69
• Assistant Lecturer in Economics, University of the West Indies, Barbados, 1966-67
• Instructor of Economics, Lincoln University, Spring 1966

Books

• Essays On the Political Economy of the Anglophone Caribbean (University of Guyana Press, 2026)
• Change Elections to Change America: Democracy Matters Student Organizers in Action (Westport, CT: Prospecta Press, 2014). Co-author: Joan D. Mandle
• Creating Political Equality: Elections as a Public Good (Palo Alto: Academica Press, 2010)
• Democracy, America and the Age of Globalization (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• Globalization and the Poor (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003; Arabic Edition, 2005)
• Persistent Underdevelopment: Change and Economic Modernization in the West Indies (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1996; reprinted Routledge, 2011)
• A New Mandate: Democratic Choices for a Prosperous Economy, (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1994). Co-author: Louis A. Ferleger
• Caribbean Hoops: The Development of West Indian Basketball (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1995) Co-author: Joan D. Mandle
• No Pain, No Gain: Taxes, Productivity and Economic Growth. A Twentieth Century Fund Paper. (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1992) Co-author: Louis A. Ferleger. Excerpts reprinted in Challenge, Vol. 36, no. 3 (May/June, 1993) pp. 11-19
• Not Free, Not Slave: The African American Economic Experience Since the Civil War (Durham: Duke University Press, 1992)
• Grass Roots Commitment: Basketball and Society in Trinidad and Tobago (Parkersburg IA: Caribbean Books, 1988). Co-author: Joan D. Mandle
• Big Revolution, Small Country: The Rise and Fall of the Grenada Revolution (Lanham MD: The North South Publishing Co., 1985
• Patterns of Caribbean Development: An Interpretive Essay on Economic Change (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1982. Reprinted Routledge Library Editions, 2011
• The Roots of Black Poverty: The Southern Plantation Economy after the Civil War (Durham: Duke University Press, 1978); paperback edition, 1979
• The Plantation Economy: Population and Economic Change in Guyana 1838-19690(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1973); paperback edition issued by Institute of Social and Economic Studies, Jamaica, 1974

Editor

• “Dimensions of Globalization.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 570, July 2000. Co-editor: Louis A. Ferleger

Published Articles

• “Medical Neocolonialism,” University of Guyana Green Institute Newsletter, March 31, 2026.
• “Online Gambling and Industrial Learning in Antigua and Barbuda,” The CLR James Journal, Volume 31, Numbers 1-2, Fall 2025.
• “Managing Guyana’s Migration Shocks: Tentative Proposals,” in Dianna DaSilva-Glasgow, Tarron Khemraj and Desmond Thomas, eds, Economic Challenges in Early 21^st Century Guyana: Post Independence Growth and Development. Cham Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. 321-332
• “Climate Change and the Integration Project,” in Patsy Lewis, Terri-Ann Gilbert and Jessican Byron (eds.) Caribbean Integration in a Time of Global Fragmentation, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago: University of the West Indies Press, 2022
• “Petroleum and Climate Change in Guyana’s Future,” Paper #1, The Renaissance Papers, The University of Guyana Press, (2019).
• ”Petroleum and Learning From the Diaspora,” in George K. Danns, Ivelaw Lloyd Griffths, Fitzgerald Yaw (eds.) Dynamic of Caribbean Diaspora Engagement: People, Policy, Practice, Georgetown: The University of Guyana Press (2018).
• “Creating a Developmental State,” ����’W���� (3^rd edition), 2017, pp.11-14.
• “Modernization in the Caribbean: The Limited Achievements of Integration and Development,” The CLR James Journal, Vol.22, No. ½ (Fall 2016), pp.95-112.
• “Government In Debt” Nation (Barbados) March 9, 2017.
• “Trump Is Right that Trade Has Cost Jobs, But His Solution Is Terrible” History News Network, 3/12/2017, Historynewsnetwork.org/article/1651003. Co-author: Lou Ferleger
• “Diaspora and Development in the Post-Colonial Period: The Case of Antigua and Barbuda.” The Antigua and Barbuda Review of Books, Vol. 9, No.1 (Summer 2016, pp.97-109.
• “Sports and Economic Development: The Case of Bangladesh,” Japan Journal of Sport Sociology, Vol.20, No.2 (September 2012) pp.4-11.
• “The Political Market,” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLVII, No. 1 (March 2013) pp.135-146.
• “The Role of Migration in Caribbean Integration and Development,” Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 60, Nos. 3&4 (September/December 2011).
• “Argonauts’ Strategy to Reduce Caribbean Economic Vulnerability,” The Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, (September 2011) pp .1-15.
• “The New Argonauts and Brian Meeks’ Envisioning Caribbean Futures,” and “Response to Brian Meeks and Rivke Jaffe,” in New West Indian Guide, Vol. 85, no. 1-2 (2011) pp. 53-78.
• “Caribbean Argonauts: Advancing Economic Modernization,” in Global Development Studies, Vol. 6, nos. 1-2 (Winter Spring 2010, pp. 29-48,
• “Reconciling Development, Global Climate Change and Politics,”, Challenge, Vol. 51, no. 6 (November-December 2008) pp. 81-90
• “Breaking the Political Log Jam on Climate Change, San Francisco Chronicle, August 11, 2008.
• “The Small Donor Fallacy,” The Washington Post, June 20, 2008.
• “For Egalitarian Policies, Publicly Funded Campaigns,” Newsday, December 14, 2007.
• “Saving Globalization,” in Mathew Forstater, Gary Mongiovi and Steven Pressman (eds.) Post Keynesian Macroeconomics: Essays in Honor of Ingrid Rima (London and New York: Routledge, 2007) pp. 212-220.
• “The Present as History: Globalization and the Asian Industrial Revolution,” The Journal of the Historical Society, Vol. 5, no. 3 (Fall 2005) pp. 347-361
• “Globalization: Pro and Con, “in John J. McCusker et al, History of World Trade (New York: Thomson Gale, 2006) pp. 320-323
• “The Politics of Democracy,” Challenge, Vol. 46, no. 6 (November-December 2003), pp. 53-63
• “Globalization and its Critics,” Historically Speaking, Vol. 4, no. 1 (September, 2002) pp. 19-22
• “The Failure of Caribbean Integration: Lessons from Grassroots Basketball,” in Joseph L. Arbena and David G. LaFrance (eds.) Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources Inc. 2002)
• “Reforming Globalization,” Challenge, Vol. 44, no. 2 (March-April 2001) pp. 24-38.
• “Windward Island Bananas in the Global Economy,” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, Vol. 25, no. 4 (December 2000) pp. 1-25
• “The Anti-Sweatshop Movement: Limits and Potential,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 570, (July 2000), pp. 92-103.
• “Elections as a Public Good,” Challenge, Vol. 42, no. 5, (September/October, 1999, pp. 50-62. Co-author: Jon Mandle
• “The ‘Shambles’ in the West Indies,” Global Development Studies, Vol. 2, nos. 1-2 (Winter 1999/Spring 2000, p. 1-13.
• “The Social Prologue to the Civil Rights Movement,” in Kyle D. Kauffman (ed.) Advances in Agricultural Economic History, Vol. 1, (2000) pp. 235-252
• “Team Play and the Compensation System in Professional Basketball,” Marquette Sports Law Journal, Vol. 9, no. 1 (Fall 1998, pp. 91-102
• “The Problem with Thinking Locally: A Critique of the Sierra Club’s The Case Against the Global Economy,” Boston Review, Vol. 23, no. 3-4 (Summer, 1998), 52-55
• “The Left’s Mistaken Turn to Economic Nationalism,” Dissent, Spring 1998, pp. 77-80
• “The United States in a Developing World,” The American Prospect, Vol. 37, March/April, 1998.
• “Economic Development in the English-Speaking Caribbean and Relations with the United States: Tourism and Migration,” in Ransford W. Palmer (ed.) U.S-Caribbean Relations: Their Impact on Peoples and Cultures, (Westport CT: Praeger, 1998.)
• “Political Struggle and West Indian Cricket: A Review Essay,” New West Indian Guide, Vol. 70, no. 1/2 (1996) Co-Author: Joan D. Mandle
• “Reconsidering the Grenada Revolution: A Review Essay,” New West Indian Guide, Vol. 69, nos. 1&2 (1995) pp. 121-26
• “Open Cultural Space: Grassroots Basketball in the English-Speaking Caribbean,” in Michael Malec (ed.) The Social Role of Sport in the Caribbean, (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1995). Co-author: Joan D. Mandle
• “The Nontangible Economy, “Challenge, (September-October 1994). Co-author: Louis A. Ferleger
• “The Failure of Caribbean Integration: Lessons from Grass Roots Basketball,” in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Vol. 13 (1994). Co-author: Joan D. Mandle
• “Black Economic Entrapment,” in Frank McGlynn and Seymour Drescher (eds.) The Meaning of Freedom: The Anthropology and History of Post Slavery Societies (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992)
• “Americans’ Hostility to Taxes,” Challenge, Vol. 32, no. 4 (July/August 1991) pp. 53-55. Co-Author: Lou Ferleger. Reprinted in Don Cole (ed.) Annual Editions Economics 92/93 (Guildford Ct: The Dushkin Publishing Group, 1992)
• “The Noncapitalist Path in Grenada: A Review Essay,” Caribbean Studies Newsletter, Vol. XVIII, no. 2 (Spring 1991) pp. 26-28
• “Continuity and Change: The Use of Black Labor after the Civil War,” in The Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 21, no. 4 (June 1991) pp. 414-427
• Economic Development in the Caribbean: Facilitating Technological Innovation,” Caribbean Affairs, Vol. 3, no. 3 (July-September 1990) pp. 1-17
• “Basketball, Civil Society and the Post Colonial State in the Commonwealth Caribbean,” The Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Vol. 14, no. 2 (Fall, 1990) Co-authors: Joan D. Mandle
• “Grassroots Basketball in Trinidad and Tobago: Foreign Domination or Local Creativity,” in John Lent (ed.) Caribbean Popular Culture (Bowling Green OH: Popular Press, 1990) Co-Author: Joan D. Mandle
• “Reverse the Productivity Drain with Mass Education and Retraining,” Challenge, (July-August, 1990) pp. 17-21. Co-author: Lou Ferleger
• “Open Cultural Space: Grassroots Basketball in the English Speaking Caribbean,” Arena Review, Vol. 14, no. 1 (May 1990) pp. 68-74. Co-author: Joan D. Mandle
• “Amateur Basketball in Trinidad and Tobago,’ Sociology and Social Research, Vol. 74, no. 2 (January 1990) pp. 95-102. Co-author: Joan D. Mandle
• “Voluntarism and Commercialization in Basketball: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago,” Sociology of Sport Journal, Vol. 6, no. 2 (June 1989) pp. 113-24. Co-author: Joan D. Mandle
• “Democracy and Productivity in the Future American Economy,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 19, no. 4 (1989) pp. 1-15. Co-author: Lou Ferleger
• “The Theory of the Plantation Economy in the Post-Bellum South,” in Sue Eakin and John Tarver (eds.) One World, One Institution: The Plantation (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 1989) pp. 155-163
• “Caribbean Economic History: An Interpretation,” in Franklin W. Knight and Colin A. Palmer (eds.) The Modern Caribbean (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989) pp. 229-258
• “The Plantation Mode of Production in the Post Bellum South,” Plantation Societies of the Americas, Vol. II, no. 3 (December 1989) pp. 279-294
• “Agricultural Transformation in Developmental Socialism,” in Nelson W. Keith and Novella Zett Keith (eds.) New Perspectives on Social Class and Socioeconomic Development in the Periphery (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988) pp. 71-81
• “Economic Reform and the Communist Party in China,” in Socialism and Democracy, #5 (Fall/Winter 1987)
• “The Plantation Economy and its Aftermath in Grenada,” in Sue Eakin and John Tarver (eds.) Plantations Around the World (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 1986) pp. 147-164
• Review Essay of John Hoffman, “The Gramscian Challenge,” in The Wall Street Review of Books, Vol. 14, no. 1 (Winter 1986) pp. 56-60
• “Alec Nove’s ‘Developmental Socialism.’” Praxis International, Vol. 6, no. 1 (April 1986), pp. 70-81
• “Overcoming Dependency,” New West Indian Guide, Vol. 59, no. 3 and 4 (1985) pp. 167-184
• “The Role of Agriculture in Self-Reliant Development,” Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 34, no. 2 (June 1985)
• “Economic Development in Grenada Under the Provision Revolutionary Government,” Transition: Journal of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Guyana, no. 10 (1984)
• “Dependency and its Alternatives,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 11, no. 3 (Summer 1984)
• “Strategies of Change in Paternalistic Socialism: The Case of China,” in John O’Brien (ed.) Festschrift: in Honor of George F. Rohrlich, Vol. III, International Journal of Social Economics (1984)
• Review Essay of Gary M. Walton and James F. Shepherd, “Market Institutions and Economic Progress in the New South, 1965-1900,” Wall Street Review of Books, Vol. 10, no. 4 (Fall 1982)
• “Sharecropping and the Plantation Economy in the United States South” Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 10, nos. 2 and 3 (January/April, 1983); Reprinted in T. J Byres (ed.) Sharecropping and Sharecroppers (London: Frank Cass, 1983)
• “Democratic Socialism and the Strike of Capital in Jamaica,” in Christopher Chase-Dunn (ed.) Socialist States in the Capitalist World Economy (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1982)
• “The Politics of Self-Reliant Development,” Monthly Review, Vol. 32, no. 11 (April 1981); “Reply to Aidan Foster-Carter” Monthly Review Vol. 33, no. 7 (December 1981)
• “Marxism and Capitalist Development in the Third World,” Theory and Society, Vol. 9 (1980) pp. 865-876
• “The Economic Underdevelopment of the United States South in the Post Bellum Era,” in Paul Bairoch and Maurice Levy-Leboyer (eds.) Disparities in Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution (London: Macmillan, 1981)
• “Marxism and the Delayed Onset of Economic Development: A Reinterpretation,” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XIV, no. 3 (September 1980)
• “Basic Needs and Economic Systems,” Review of Social Economics, Vol. XXXVIII, no. 2 (October 1980); “Reply to Karl H. Hella, Review of Social Economics, Vol. XLI, no. 2 (October 1983)
• “Ideologies of Development,” Transition, Journal of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Guyana, Vol. 2, no. 1 (1979)
• “Militarization and Development: A Comment,” Transition, Journal of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Guyana, Vol. 2, no. (1979)
• “Social Origins of the New South: A Review Essay,” in Plantation Societies of the Americas, Vol. 1, no. 2 (June 1979)
• “The Lessons of Chile: A Review Essay,” Socialist Review, no. 37 (Spring 1978)
• “The Economic Underdevelopment of the Post Bellum South,” Marxist Perspectives, Vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter 1978)
• “The Crisis of the American Dream: An Economic Overview,” Engage/Social Action (September 1976)
• “Black Achievement Under Adversity,” The Insurgent Sociologist, Vol. 7, no. 1 (Winter 1977)
• “Continuity and Change in Guyanese Underdevelopment,” Revista/Review Interamericana, Vol. vii, no. 2 (Summer 1977); reprinted, Monthly Review, Vol. 28, no. 1 (September, 1976)
• “The Failure of Development in Nineteenth Century Guyana,” International Journal of Economic and Social History, no. 5 (1975)
• “Strength and Growth in a Plantation Economy: An Appraisal of ‘Time on the Cross’, Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. xi, no. 1 (Spring 1976)
• “The Plantation States as a Sub-Region of the Post Bellum South,” The Journal of Economic History, Vol. xi, no. 1 (September, 1974)
• “The Plantation Economy and its Aftermath,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring, 1974)
• “Pronatalist Policies in Guyana: Some Hypotheses and Projections,” in Aaron Segal (ed.) Population Policies in the Caribbean (New York: Lexington Books, 1975)
• “The Recent Decline in Fertility in Trinidad and Tobago,” International Population and Urban Research, Preliminary Papers, no. 5 (February 1973)
• “The Reestablishment of the Plantation Economy in the South, 1865-1910,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 3, no. 2 (Winter, 1973)
• “The Plantation Economy: An Essay in Definition,” Science and Society, Vol. xxxvi (Spring 1972); Reprinted in Eugene D. Genovese (ed.) The Slave Economies in World Perspective (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974)
• “Population and Economic Change: The Emergence of the Rice Industry in Guyana, 1895-1915,” The Journal of Economic History, Vol. xxx, no. 4 (December 1970)
• “The Decline in Mortality in British Guiana, 1911-1960,” Demography, Vol. 7, no. 3 (August 1970)
• “Cuban Model: Review of The Economic Transformation of Cuba by Edward Boostein,” New World Quarterly (High Season, 1968) pp. 77-80
• “Neo-Imperialism: A Comment,” Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 16, no. 3 (1967)

Temple University; University of the West Indies; Nankai University (People's Republic of China); University of California/Berkeley; Bryn Mawr College; Swarthmore College; Lincoln University; University of Guyana

Economic development, economic theory

Economic globalization, Caribbean economic development, African American economic history, contemporary United States economy, sports in society, Occupy Wall Street.