Fields of Interest:
My original work in economics dealt with regional aspects of government tax and expenditure policy during the business cycle. Since then, however, the major focus of my research has been in economic history. My first projects dealt with the United States economy in the nineteenth century. Since then I have done research primarily on the economics of slavery and its aftermath in the United States and the Caribbean.
Courses Offered (subject to change)
- HIS 255: Economic and Social Conditions of African Americans (ECO 253)
Representative Publications:
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economics, Societies, and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe, edited with Joseph E. Inikori (1992).
- Quantitative Economic History. edited with N.F.R. Crafts and N. Dimsdale (1991).
- British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams, edited with Barbara L. Solow (1987).
- Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth, edited with Robert E. Gallman (1986).
- Between Slavery and Free Labor: The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century, edited with Manuel Moreno Fraginals and Frank Moya Pons (1985).
- Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies, edited with Eugene D. Genovese (1975).
- Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery with R.W. Fogel (1974).
- The Reinterpretation of American Economic History, edited with R.W. Fogel (1971).
