Research
Integrating the Immigrant
I currently am concentrating my research time on issues surrounding immigration. I have coordinated a research group that has submitted a proposal for $240,000 over three years and is planning several other proposals. We will base our work on the Utah Population Database, and in particular the information we obtain on immigrants from the Driver License Division and on their health from other elements of the UPDB. This is a multi-disciplinary research group that has received significant support from the College of Social and Behavioral Science's "Institute for Public and International Affairs."
The Economic Impact of the Mexico-Utah Relationship
Tom Maloney, Claudio Holzner and I carried out a study that was published in February 2006 and presented to President Fox in Salt Lake in June 2006. Both it and a longer study with more detailed results are available at the following site:
UTAH-MEXICO STUDY
The Failure of the Developmental State: Globalization and Discontent
Several faculty members took part in a research group with support of the College's new Institute for Public and International Affairs on this broad topic.
Polly Wiessner and I joined our work to write a paper entitled "Violent and Non-Violent Responses to State Failure: Papua New Guinea and Ecuador." It was presented at the conference on "Values and Violence: Intangible Aspects of Terrorism" at the University of Utah on March 1, 2007 and will be published as part of a conference volume.
I continue this work on Ecuador with two manuscripts/presentations, one on the indigenous movement and the other on the Correa Administration's efforts to restore policy space to the Ecuadorian government.
Institutionalism
I served on the Board of Editors of "The Journal of Economic Issues" from 2002-2006 and am again on the Editorial Board for the 2007-2010 period. I also have written on institutionalism. One article was published in 2006, another in 2007, and another will appear in 2008. I presented a paper using "Post Keynesian Institutionalism" to examine the current changes in Ecuador at the Association for Institutionalist Thought in Denver in April, 2008.
Dollarization and the Dollar Bloc
I had published in this area previously. There has been
an upsurge of interest in the issue, so in the last several years, I extended my
previous work:
The original article I wrote was "Dollar Bloc Dependency
in Latin America: Beyond Bretton Woods," International Studies
Quarterly (1990) 34, pp. 519-541
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the Article (PDF file)
I presented new material related to this in seminars in
Peru in July, 1999, and in a series of lectures in Paraguay
in May 2004. I am working on further papers related to the
issue.
One paper was published in the Winter, 2001 Latin American
Politics and Society
You can see an abstract and outline at Latin America
And The Dollar Bloc In The 21st Century
An earlier version of this paper appeared in Economia #45(June
2000) published in Spanish in Lima, Peru.
Another paper, "Dollarization: Wave of the Future or Flight
to the Past?"appeared in the Journal of Economic Issues (September
2003) and dealt strictly with dollarization, focusing on
the experience of Ecuador , who dollarized in 2000. An earlier
version of that paper was presented at the Latin American
Studies Association meeting in Washington, D.C. on September
7, 2001. A Spanish version was published in Economia
y Humanismo ( Quito ) in 2002. You can see an abstract and
outline at:
Dollarization:
Wave Of The Future Or Flight To The Past?
A more recent paper, entitled "Is It Possible to De-dollarize?
The Case of Ecuador" appeared in 2004 in the International
Journal of Political Economy 33(1).
Another manuscript deals with the international monetary
system, Latin America's role during the 20th century, and
the rules of the game Latin America has been forced to follow.
You can see an abstract and outline at The Western Hemisphere
Dollar Bloc Game
I presented a paper, which is related but deals more
directly with early Latin American writing on exchange rate
issues around the beginning of the 20th century, at the
Eastern Economic Association meetings in New York in March,
2005. It was published in a volume on Latin American Economic Thought in 2006.
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