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:

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.


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.

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.