Publications

  Published Articles in Journals

“Nanotechnology as General Purpose Technology:  Empirical Evidence and Implications” (with Chris Shea and Roger Grinde), Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, forthcoming.

“Teaching Economic Growth Theory with Data,” (with Edinaldo Tebaldi),  Journal of Economic Education, forthcoming, Winter, 2010.

“Institutions, Innovation and Economic Growth,” with Edinaldo Tebaldi, Journal of Economic Development, Vol. 33, No. 2,  December 2008.

“So, What Did You Do Last Night? The Economics of Infidelity,” (with E. Tebaldi), Kyklos, Vol. 61, No. 3, 2008.

“Considering the Source:  Does Country of Origin of FDI Matter to Economic Growth?” (with T. Ford and J. Rork), Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 48, No. 2, May 2008, pp. 329-357.

“Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Growth, and the Human Capital Threshold,” (with T. Ford and J. Rork), Review of International Economics,  16(1), 96-113, 2008.

“Sexual Orientation and Labor Market Discrimination,” (with Edinaldo Tebaldi),  Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2007.

“Discrimination and Growth:  The Distribution across Skills Matters,” (with N. Sedgley), Economics Letters, Vol. 90, 2006.

“The Chain Version of Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Investigation,” (with N. Cavusoglu), Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Vol. 141, No. 3, 2005.

“Sexual Orientation and Labor Supply,” (with E. Tebaldi), Applied Economics, Vol, 38, 2006.

“A Time Series Test of Regional Convergence in the USA with Dynamic Panel Models, 1972-1998,” (with N. Sedgley), Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2005.

“Introduction: Symposium on Noneconomic Objectives in the History of Economic Thought,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2004.

“Adam Smith’s Analysis of Bounties as an Early Example of the Concept of Noneconomic Objectives,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2004.

“The Conventional Wage Share vs. Full Employment:  Implications for the Development of Growth Theory,” (with N. Sedgley), Cambridge Journal of Economics, September 2004.

“Adam Smith and Noneconomic Objectives,” Review of International Economics, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2004.

"The Geographic Concentration of Knowledge: Scale, Agglomeration and Congestion in Innovation across U.S. States," (with N. Sedgley), International Regional Science Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, April 2004, 111-137.

“The Reswitching Debate:  Whence it Came and Where it Went,” (with N. Sedgley), Intellectual News, No. 13, Winter 2003.

“Vent-for-Surplus:  A Case of Mistaken Identity,” (with N. Sedgley), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 68, No. 3, January 2002.

“Agglomeration and Congestion in the Economics of Ideas and Technological Change,” (with Norman Sedgley), American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 60, No. 1, January 2001.

“Theories of Convergence and Growth in the Classical Period:  The Role of Science, Technology, and Trade,” (with A. Criss), Economica, Vol. 66, No. 261, 1999.

"Discrimination and Job Quality:  The Youth Labor Market in the 1980s," (with S. Sedo), International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1998.

"Harder Than You Think:  Free Trade and International Labor Standards," (with W. Milberg), invited article for the New Labor Forum, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1997.

"Persistent Consequences of Initial Discrimination:  Young Black Workers in the 1960's," Review of Black Political Economy, (with Stan Sedo), Vol. 24, No. 4, 1996.

"The Role of Joint Products in Smith's Explanation of the 'Vent-for-Surplus' Doctrine," History of Political Economy, Vol. 28, No. 3, 1996.
                                             
"Discrimination, Social Psychology, and Hysteresis in Labor Market," (with S. Sedo), The Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1996.

"Free Trade and Social Dumping:  Lessons from the Regulation of U.S. Interstate Commerce," (with W. Milberg), Challenge, Vol. 39, No. 3, May-June 1996.

 "The Productivity Convergence Debate:  A Theoretical and Methodological Reconsideration," (with W. Milberg), Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 20, No. 2, March 1996 (Lead Article) and Jerome Levy Economics Institute Working Papers Series, No. 120.

"Testing Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek in the G-7," (with A. James), Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (Review of World Economics), Vol. 132, No. 1, 1996.

"The Convergence Debate between David Hume and Josiah Tucker," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1995.

"The Endogenous Nature of Technological Progress and Transfer in Adam Smith's Thought," History of Political Economy, Vol. 26, No. 4, Winter 1994.

"International Trade and Technical Progress:  The Role of Capital Good Imports in Portugal," International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1994 (Lead Article).

"Positive Feedback Mechanisms in Adam Smith's Theories of International Trade," European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1994.

"Free Trade in a World of Internationally Mobile Technology:  The Orthodoxy Then and Now," Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter, 1993.

"International Trade and Factor Intensity Uniformity:  An Empirical Assessment," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (Review of World Economics), (with W. Milberg), Vol. 128, No. 3, 1992.

"Rethinking International Trade Theory:  A Methodological Appraisal," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (Review of World Economics), (with T. Bensel), Vol. 128, No. 2, 1992.

 "The Trade‑off Between Unemployment and Inflation in an Unstable Environment: A Social Welfare Analysis," (with A. Kliman) The Kentucky Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 8, 1988. 

"Effects of Increased Transfer Payments from the United States to Debtor Less Developed Countries," The Utah Forum, Spring 1986, Vol. 4, No. 2.

“Trade and Protection: Comparative Policies and Practices,” (with N. Cavusoglu), in P.A. O’Hara (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Public Policy: Volume 1―Global Governance and Development, GPERU: Perth, 2009

“Vent for Surplus in a Dynamic Setting,” (with N. Sedgley) Progress in Economics Research, ed. Albert Tavidze, Nova Science Publishers: NY, 2003.

“Agglomeration and Congestion in the Economics of Ideas and Technological Change,” in  City and Country, ed. Laurence Moss, Blackwell Publisher, (with N. Sedgley), 2001.

"A Primer on Technology Gap Theory and Empirics," in Foundations of International Economics:  Post Keynesian Perspectives, eds. Johan Deprez and John T. Harvey, Routledge Press, (with F. Vieira) 1999.

"Vent for Surplus," The Elgar Companion to Classical Economics, eds. Heinz Kurz and Neri Salvadori, Edward Elgar Publisher, 1998.

"Jacob Viner," Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics, eds. David Colander, Geoff Harcourt, and Tom Cate, Edward Elgar Publisher, 1997.

"The Advantages of Relative Backwardness in the OECD:  An Input-Output Approach," (with W. Milberg) in The Political Economy of Global Restructuring:  Economic Organization and Production, Vol. 1, ed. Ingrid Rima, Edward Elgar Publisher, 1993.

"The Renaissance of Adam Smith in Modern Theories of International Trade," (with A. James) Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought:  Themes on Economic Discourse, Method, Money, and Trade, Vol. IX, ed. Robert Hebert, Edward Elgar Publisher, 1993.

"Technical Change in the Corporate Economy:  A Vertically Integrated Approach," (with W. Milberg) in The Megacorp and Macrodynamics:  Essays in Memory of Alfred Eichner, M.E. Sharpe Inc. 1992, William Milberg ed.

"Comment on Institutionalist Income Distribution Theory," in The Three Worlds of Labor Economics, M.E. Sharpe Inc. 1988, Garth Mangum and Peter Philips, eds.