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Working Papers

1999

1. EDITORIAL: FINANCIAL CRISES-CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND REMEDIES
   CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
2. FALLACIES IN DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY
   CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (12)
3. THE END OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL STATE? A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM INVESTIGATION ON THE SOURCES OF THE ASIAN CRISIS WITHIN A MULTI-REGION, INTER-TEMPORAL CGE MODEL
   CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
   Also in Working Papers, Department of Economics, Bilkent University (1999)
4. THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
   CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (11)
5. The Korean Financial Crisis of 1997-98
   CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (1)

1995

6. Environmental Distortions and Welfare Consequences in a Social Accounting Framework
   CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

1992

7. Estimating Income Mobility from Census Data
   CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
   See also Journal Article Estimating income mobility from census data, Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier (1994) View citations (4) (1994)
8. Institutions and Economic Linkages at the Village Level in West Java, Indonesia
   CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

1991

9. Designing gradual transition to market economies
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
   Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1991)
10. Development Strategies and the Environment
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
11. Education, Mobility, And Growth
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
12. Financial considerations of public inventory holdings in developing countries
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (1991)
13. Long Term Economic Development
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (2)
14. The Relevance of Adli for Sub-Saharan Africa
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
15. Using SAM's to account for distortions in non-market economies
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (3)
    Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (1991) View citations (3)

1990

16. Adjustment under different trade strategies: a mean-variance analysis with a CGE model of the Yugoslav economy
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (3)
    Also in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (1990) View citations (3)
17. Measuring Income Mobility with Census Data
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

1989

18. A Modern View of Joseph's Policy: food stocks as financial assets
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
    Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1989)
19. Food Security Policy in a Stochastic World
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley View citations (2)
    Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1989) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Food security policy in a stochastic world, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (1990) View citations (3) (1990)
20. Should There be a Marshall Plan foe Eastern Europe?
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
21. The Effect of Trade Liberalization in Agriculture on the U.S. Economy: Projections to 1991
    Staff General Research Papers Archive, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations (4)
22. What is the Evidence on Income Inequality and Development
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (1)

1988

23. Economic development then and now
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
    Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1988) View citations (1)
24. Optimal Adjustment to Trade Shocks Under Alternative Development Strategies
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    See also Journal Article Optimal adjustment to trade shocks under alternative development strategies, Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier (1989) View citations (3) (1989)
25. Prometheus Unbound and Developing Countries
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
26. The Effect of Trade Liberalization in Agriculture on the U.S. Economy to 1991
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (3)

1987

27. A Latent Variable Regression Model of Nineteenth Century Economic Development
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (2)
28. Income Distribution and Development: A Survey
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (1)
29. Life in a Mexican Village: A Sam Perspective
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (2)
    Also in CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1987) View citations (2)
30. Macroeconomic Adjustment and Income Distribution: Alternative Models Applied to Two Economies
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    See also Journal Article Macroeconomic adjustment and income distribution: Alternative models applied to two economies, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (1988) View citations (33) (1988)

1986

31. Adjustment Under Uncertainty with Computable General Equilibrium Models
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (1)
32. Agricultural Development Led Industrialization in a Global Perspective
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    See also Chapter Agricultural Development-led Industrialisation in a Global Perspective, International Economic Association Series, Palgrave Macmillan (1989) (1989)
33. Economic Development and Institutional Change in the 19th Century
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (2)
34. The Application of General Equilibrium Models to Analyze U.S. Agriculture
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (2)
    Also in 1986 Annual Meeting, July 27-30, Reno, Nevada, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) (1986)

1984

35. Computable General Equilibrium Models: Retrospective and Prospective
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

1983

36. A Dynamic Model of Personal Wealth and Income Distribution in a Growing Closed Economy
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (1)
37. Economic Development and Institutional Change: Toward a Modeling Framework
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
38. Food Security
    Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
39. Food security: a mean variance approach
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations (1)

1982

40. The Dynamics of Political Change
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

1981

41. An Approach to Policy Evaluation in the Egyptian Agricultural Sector: Simulation of Egyptian Village Economy
    Working Papers, University of California, Davis, Agricultural Development Systems: Egypt Project
42. Analysis of Contemporary Latin America Political History: An Application of Catastrophe Theory
    CUDARE Working Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
43. Political economy of investment in human capital
    ILO Working Papers, International Labour Organization View citations (1)
    See also Chapter The Political Economy of Investment in Human Capital, International Economic Association Series, Palgrave Macmillan (1983) (1983)

1979

44. Static and dynamic indices of income inequality. Provisional draft
    ILO Working Papers, International Labour Organization

Journal Articles

2017

1. Confessioni di un'inguaribile romantica (Confessions of an incurable romantic)
   Moneta e Credito, 2017, 70, (279), 239-263

2014

2. A Conversation with Irma Adelman
   Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2014, 6, (1), 1-16 View citations (1)

2012

3. Il y a trente ans: extrait de Mondes en Développement. Dossier: nouveau système mondial. dynamique du changement politique: une application de la théorie des catastrophes
   Mondes en développement, 2012, n°157, (1), 167-167

2003

4. Agricultural Household Models: Genesis, Evolution, and Extensions
   Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1, (1), 33-58 View citations (173)

2000

5. Analysing Economic Systems Using Computable General Equilibrium Models: The Example of Croatia
   Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business, 2000, 3, (2), 63-79 View citations (2)
6. Editor's Introduction
   World Development, 2000, 28, (6), 1053-1060 View citations (1)
7. Is this the end of economic development?
   Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2000, 11, (1-2), 95-109 View citations (6)
8. The Minimal Conditions for a Financial Crisis: A Multiregional Intertemporal CGE Model of the Asian Crisis
   World Development, 2000, 28, (6), 1087-1100 View citations (6)

1999

9. Lessons from (S) Korea
   Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business, 1999, 2, (2), 57-72 View citations (1)

1997

10. Editorial: Development history and its implications for development theory
    World Development, 1997, 25, (6), 831-840 View citations (21)

1995

11. The Long Term Impact of Economic Development in Developed Countries on Developing Countries since 1820
    Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 1995, 5, (3), 189-208 View citations (1)

1994

12. Estimating income mobility from census data
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 1994, 16, (2), 187-213 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Estimating Income Mobility from Census Data, CUDARE Working Papers (1992) (1992)
13. Institutions and development in the nineteenth century: A latent variable regression model
    Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 1994, 5, (2), 329-359 View citations (2)

1992

14. Income Inequality and Development During the 1980s
    Indian Economic Review, 1992, 27, 329-345 View citations (1)

1990

15. A Note of Technical Correction - This note addresses technical statements in a review of Irma Adelman and Cynthia Taft Morris's Comparative Patterns of Economic Development, 1850–1914 (Baltimore, 1988) in the September 1989 issue of this Journal
    The Journal of Economic History, 1990, 50, (1), 262-263
16. Food security policy in a stochastic world
    Journal of Development Economics, 1990, 34, (1-2), 25-55 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Food Security Policy in a Stochastic World, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series (1989) View citations (2) (1989)
17. My Life Philosophy
    The American Economist, 1990, 34, (2), 3-13
    See also Chapter My Life Philosophy, Chapters, 2004 (2004) (2004)
18. W. Arthur Lewis lecture: Should there be a marshall plan for eastern europe?
    The Review of Black Political Economy, 1990, 19, (2), 17-42 View citations (1)

1989

19. Editors' introduction
    World Development, 1989, 17, (9), 1317-1318
20. Nineteenth-century development experience and lessons for today
    World Development, 1989, 17, (9), 1417-1432 View citations (14)
21. Optimal adjustment to trade shocks under alternative development strategies
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 1989, 11, (4), 451-505 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Optimal Adjustment to Trade Shocks Under Alternative Development Strategies, CUDARE Working Papers (1988) (1988)

1988

22. Macroeconomic adjustment and income distribution: Alternative models applied to two economies
    Journal of Development Economics, 1988, 29, (1), 23-44 View citations (33)
    See also Working Paper Macroeconomic Adjustment and Income Distribution: Alternative Models Applied to Two Economies, CUDARE Working Papers (1987) (1987)

1987

23. Economic policy and income distribution in China
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1987, 11, (3), 444-461 View citations (12)

1986

24. DECOMPOSING THEIL'S INDEX OF INCOME INEQUALITY: A REPLY
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1986, 32, (1), 107-108 View citations (1)
25. U.S. Agriculture in a General Equilibrium Framework: Analysis with a Social Accounting Matrix
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1986, 68, (5), 1196-1207 View citations (33)

1985

26. Shadow households and competing auspices: Migration behavior in the Philippines by F. Caces et al
    Journal of Development Economics, 1985, 17, (1-2), 27-28 View citations (2)
27. The influence of rapid rural-urban migration on Korean national fertility levels by B.S. Lee and S.C. Farber
    Journal of Development Economics, 1985, 17, (1-2), 73-74

1984

28. Beyond export-led growth
    World Development, 1984, 12, (9), 937-949 View citations (88)
29. Crisis Politics in Developing Countries
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1984, 33, (1), 1-22
30. DECOMPOSING THEIL'S INCOME OF INCOME INEQUALITY INTO BETWEEN AND WITHIN COMPONENTS: A NOTE
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1984, 30, (1), 119-121 View citations (5)
31. The equalizing role of human resource intensive growth strategies: A theoretical model
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 1984, 6, (2), 271-287 View citations (1)

1983

32. A Dynamic Model of Personal Wealth and Income Distribution in a Growing Closed Economy: Personelle Vermögens- und Einkommensverteilung in einer wachsenden Volkswirtschaft ohne Außenhandel — Ein dynamischer Ansatz
    Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 1983, 198, (6), 481-504
33. Institutional Influences on Poverty in the Nineteenth Century: A Quantitative Comparative Study
    The Journal of Economic History, 1983, 43, (1), 43-55 View citations (3)
34. Reply to Williams
    The Journal of Economic History, 1983, 43, (1), 61-62

1982

35. Brandt, W. North-South: A Program for Survival. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1980, 304 pp., $4.95 and Sewell, John W. The United States and World Development: Agenda, 1980. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1980, 242 pp., price unknown
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1982, 64, (2), 397-398
36. Factor analysis and development: A rejoinder to a rejoinder
    Journal of Development Economics, 1982, 11, (1), 129-129
37. Factor analysis and development: A reply
    Journal of Development Economics, 1982, 11, (1), 113-123
38. Politics in Latin America
    Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1982, 26, (4), 592-620

1980

39. Image and reality in economic development: New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1977. xiii + 498 pp., index. $28.50, cloth
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1980, 4, (4), 449-450
40. Some thoughts on the restructuring of North-South interaction
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 1980, 2, (2), 291-305
41. The religious factor in economic development
    World Development, 1980, 8, (7-8), 491-501 View citations (4)

1979

42. A comparison of two models for income distribution planning
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 1979, 1, (1), 37-82 View citations (24)
43. The Role of Institutional Influences in Patterns of Agricultural Development in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: A Cross-Section Quantitative Study
    The Journal of Economic History, 1979, 39, (1), 159-176

1978

44. Growth and improverishment in the middle of the nineteenth century
    World Development, 1978, 6, (3), 245-273

1976

45. Policies for equitable growth
    World Development, 1976, 4, (7), 561-582 View citations (1)

1975

46. Development Economics-A Reassessment of Goals
    American Economic Review, 1975, 65, (2), 302-09 View citations (25)
47. Distribution and development: A comment
    Journal of Development Economics, 1975, 1, (4), 401-402
48. Growth, income distribution and equity-oriented development strategies
    World Development, 1975, 3, (2-3), 67-76 View citations (10)

1974

49. On the state of development economics
    Journal of Development Economics, 1974, 1, (1), 3-5 View citations (3)
50. Strategies for Equitable Growth
    Challenge, 1974, 17, (2), 37-44 View citations (1)

1973

51. The 1973 Report of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: The Economic Role of Women
    American Economic Review, 1973, 63, (4), 509-14 View citations (1)

1971

52. A Factor Analysis of Modernisation in Village India
    Economic Journal, 1971, 81, (323), 563-79 View citations (5)

1970

53. An Econometric Model of Development: Reply
    American Economic Review, 1970, 60, (1), 236-48
54. Factor Analysis and Gross National Product: A Reply
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1970, 84, (4), 651-662

1969

55. Instruments and Goals in Economic Development
    American Economic Review, 1969, 59, (2), 409-26 View citations (1)
56. Papanek, Gustav F., ed., Development Policy—Theory and Practice, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1968, xvi + 367 pp. ($12.50)
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1969, 51, (3), 714-715

1968

57. Performance Criteria for Evaluating Economic Development Potential: An Operational Approach
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1968, 82, (2), 260-280 View citations (10)

1965

58. A Factor Analysis of The Interrelationship Between Social and Political Variables and Per Capita Gross Naitonal Product
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1965, 79, (4), 555-578 View citations (36)

Books

2006

1. Village Economies
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (1997) View citations (2)

1995

2. Dynamics and Income Distribution
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (2)
3. Institutions and Development Strategies
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (8)

Edited books

1989

1. The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development
   International Economic Association Series, Palgrave Macmillan

1979

2. Economic Growth and Resources
   International Economic Association Series, Palgrave Macmillan

Chapters

2004

1. My Life Philosophy
   Chapter 1 in Reflections of Eminent Economists, 2004
   See also Journal Article My Life Philosophy, Sage Publications (1990) (1990)

2001

2. The Korean financial crisis of 1997/98 and its implications for the global financial system
   Chapter 5 in Globalization and Economic Development, 2001

1999

3. Environmental Distortions and Welfare Consequences in a Social Accounting Matrix Framework
   Chapter 4 in Global Environmental Change and Agriculture, 1999, pp 89-154
4. Society, Politics, and Economic Development thirty years after
   Chapter 3 in Economic Growth and Change, 1999

1998

5. Institutional and Policy Aspects of Transition: An Empirical Analysis
   Chapter 14 in Handbook on the Globalization of the World Economy, 1998 View citations (2)
6. The Genesis of the Current Global Economic System
   Chapter 1 in Handbook on the Globalization of the World Economy, 1998

1989

7. Agricultural Development-led Industrialisation in a Global Perspective
   Palgrave Macmillan
   See also Working Paper Agricultural Development Led Industrialization in a Global Perspective, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1986) (1986)
8. Confessions of an Incurable Romantic
   Palgrave Macmillan
9. Income distribution and development
   Chapter 19 in Handbook of Development Economics, 1989, vol. 2, pp 949-1003 View citations (80)
10. Joan Robinson as a Development Economist
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)

1983

11. The Political Economy of Investment in Human Capital
    Palgrave Macmillan
    See also Working Paper Political economy of investment in human capital, International Labour Organization (1981) View citations (1) (1981)

1980

12. An Inquiry into the Course of Poverty in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries
    Palgrave Macmillan

1979

13. Reports by the Chairmen of the Specialised Sessions
    Palgrave Macmillan

1974

14. The Derivation of Cardinal Scales from Ordinal Data: An Application of Multidimensional Scaling to Measure Levels of National Development
    Palgrave Macmillan