Education

PhD, Cornell University
MA, Cornell University
BA, Eisenhower College

Profile

Professor of Economics, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver; previous positions include Visiting Professor, CIRJE, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo (1999, 2003-2006); Senior Economic Adviser, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) during sabbatical leave (2007-2008); Distinguished Scholar Award, Academy of International Business (2005). Consultant for The International Labor Office, World Bank, United Nations Development Programme, Asian Development Bank Institute, UNCTAD, and various European, Asian, Latin American and African governments. Field work in Korea, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Japan, China, Costa Rica, Mexico, Philippines, Taiwan, Nigeria, South Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore. Author of many articles, monographs and books, including Global Markets and Financial Crisis: Asia?s Mangled Miracle (2004), Innovation and Growth in East Asia: The Future of Miracles (2004) and African Debt and Sustainable Development (1997). Forthcoming Patterns of Human Development: Growth and Poverty (2008 with Barry Hughes et al) discusses the concepts and empirics of growth, income distribution and poverty, and presents distribution-sensitive results from a long-run model of growth and distribution.

Research and Expertise

Political economy; economic modeling and development, including trade liberalization and poverty reduction; economics projects on energy and development in Asia and Latin America; development finance and international finance

Courses

Political Economy of Globalization, Political Economy of Human Rights, International Business Environment; Country Risk Analysis; Financial Analysis of Large Scale Projects; International Corporate Finance; International Money and Finance in Europe; International Money and Finance in East Asia; Global Financial Structure; Japanese Economy--Trade and Financial Issues; Advanced Issues in International Economics; Theories of Income Distribution; Research Methods: Philosophy of Science Issues; Global Economic Justice; International Monetary Relations; Special topics in Econometrics; Math, Econonomics and Technology