Michael J. Twomey
Here is a copy of my Vita and what
used to be a recent photo.
The current draft of my paper Agriculture in the TPP for the October, 2016 AMEI meetings in
Tijuana, Mexico. Initially presented at the May, 2016 LASA
conference in New York.
A longer version of this paper Agriculture Long in the TPP .
The current draft of my paper Only the Rich Get Richer - Only in America? for the May, 2015 LASA conference in Puerto Rico.
The
current draft of my paper Incomes of
Arab-Americans in the United States, and in Metro Detroit presented at the
ASSA meetings in January, 2009.
A
draft of my paper on The Prospects for
Petroleum Output and Investment in MENA Oil Exporting Countries, 2005-2030,
for the MEEA Conference in Chicago, January 2007.
My paper Oil Price
Windfalls and Capital Outflows from MENA Oil Exporters presented at the
Middle East Economics Association conference in Tunisia in March, 2006.
Click for a copy of my paper on Patterns of Foreign Investment in the Third World
in the Twentieth Century. Here is an Excel file of historical data on Foreign Investment in Latin America, together
with the accompanying file of Sources, Notes and
Bibliography.
Click for a copy of my 2001 paper A Century of Foreign Investment in Mexico.
My paper delivered in Windsor, Canada in August, 2000 on The Canadian Experience with the Investment
Development Path
A 1980 working paper on Cotton Textile Import Substitution in
Britain, China, India, and Japan; recently scanned.
Comments
about the economics major at UM-D and, particularly,
about applying to graduate school.
Go
to the UM-D Economics page.
The
link to the Web page of my Nobel candidate, Jagdish Bhagwati.
Links
to my courses:
- Introductory
Macroeconomics (Econ 201): the Fall, 2014 syllabus, copies of
previous exams (some using different textbooks); first exam, second, third exam, and since 2009, the fourth exam; some references to websites of short articles or opinion
pieces on macroeconomics issues (which is also the Extra Credit list), the files of my Power Point
presentations for the Krugman/Wells text: Intro& Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 19.
Alternatively,
here are those files in MS Word .doc format; Intro & Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 19.
These files will be updated occasionally.
Here are links to the sites of several of the best of the current group of U.S.
economists.
- Intermediate
Macroeconomics (Econ 301): the fall, 2014
syllabus, the homework assignments, and previous exams.
The .pptx files of the powerpoint lectures: First day and Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, and Chapter 20 .
Copies of my powerpoint lectures and notes, in MS Word format: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, and Chapter 20.
- Economic
Development (Econ 342): the winter, 2004 syllabus, the homework assignments, the link to the
WDI database,
some web-based Further Resources, some previous exams, the NovelList, some websources, and international source references at the UM-D library.
The following are my powerpoint lecures for the Lynn text: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, and an extended version
of these files, in MS Word format (these average about 25 megs apiece); Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, and Chapter 15.
- Econ
444/544 Economies of the Middle East: The
winter, 2014 syllabus, the papers assignment, and the longer Reading List; previous years' exams, previous years' Study Sheets,
The current versions of my chronologies for Algeria, Egypt, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen.
A compilation of estimates of deaths from Armed Conflict in MENA. A one-page
primer on the Iraq War. Brief thoughts on factors
contributing to the conflicts between the US and Iran.
Comparison of the situations of Palestinian Refugees in frontline
states. A listing of Israel’s treaties with MENA countries.
Some recent and important upcoming elections
Here
are the files for the Power Point presentations on: Agriculture and Water, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, Arab Uprising, Course Introduction, Education and Health, Egypt, Gender Issues, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Economics, Israel, Macro Economic Issues(I), Macro Economic Issues(II), Migration, Minorities, Overview and Basic Data, Palestine, Political Islam, Population Growth and Demography, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, Textiles, Turkey, Urbanization (i), Urbanization (ii), World Oil, plus four files on
architectural topics: Introduction, Cairo, Turkey, Contemporary.
For the Richards and Waterbury text, here are my
.ppt files: Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 10, and Chapter 13.
Alternatively,
you can download (and print) the parallel versions of the material prepared for
the lectures, in MS Word format (.doc), which are currently available for the
material on:
Agriculture and Water, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Arab Uprising, Course introduction and first day, Education and Health, Egypt, Gender issues (I), Gender issues (II), Iran, Iraq, Islamic Economics, Israel, Macro Economic Issues (I), Macro Economic Issues (II), Migration, Minorities, Overview and Basic Data, Palestine, Political Islam, Population and Demography, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, Textiles, Turkey, Urbanization (I), and Urbanization (II), World Oil, plus four parts on architecture
and urban planning: Introduction, Cairo, Turkey, Contemporary, as well as, from the
Richards and Waterbury text, the following: R&W chapter 7, R&W chapter 8, R&W chapter 9.
Here are some spreadsheets of interesting data sets for the Middle East: Inflation and GDP/Capita one on Population Growth and Fertility, regional fertility, debt service, foreign aid, defense/GDP, Gov't/GDP. Palestinian Diaspora.
- International
Finance (Econ 347): the most recent syllabus, a new web list, the old exams, and references at the UM-D library. Here
are the outlines for the lectures on the Third World Debt Crisis and on the International Monetary System
- International
Trade:(Econ 448/548) the Fall, 2014 syllabus, the old exams, a description of the Written Assignments, the Written Assignments_548 for the grad
course (Econ 548), the link to the World Development Indicators data base, and several Web-based articles. The following are the
working versions of my Power Point Presentations from the Pugel text: Intro and Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15-FDI. Chapter 15-migration.
The corresponding MS Word versions of the lectures are: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15-FDI, Chapter 15-Migration.
Notes on comparative advantage, the political economy of trade policy, on
migration history and on migration data, on European integration, some notes on
the theory of multinational corporations, and references at the UM-D library. The
set of slides (in powerpoint) from the presentation on migration, and those slides in html
format migration and the powerpoint slides
from the presentation on FDI, and the html slides for FDI.