Materials Used in Class

Maps:

    Africa: Political and Historical

     Africa: More Maps

     UNESCO Map of the Slave Trade

     Africa: Country Maps:

                    (from the CIA World Fact Book; search on country name)

                     Congo

History:

           BBC: The Story of Africa, African History from the Dawn of Time,

                http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index.shtml

         African Studies Center, Michigan State University, "African History, the Era of Global

                       Encroachment,"

                                http://ex.matrix.msu.edu/africa/curriculum/lm7/B/7Boverview.htm

           Africans in America, PBS Series
           Images of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas

           Democratic Republic of the Congo

Language Families

      Indo - European (1)

      Indo - European (2)

      Semitic

      All

Interview with William Easterly

Photographs

Growth Economists

Herbert S. Klein

Cameroon 2002

A photographic essay on Liberia's civil war: Liberia, 2003: in the Lion's Mouth

Cowrie Shells

Oil Palm

Portraits

Other Materials:

Achebe: Characters and Glossary

Peter Hazell, AREC Seminar, May 6,  2004

Allen C. Kelley, "Population and Development," unpublished.

Nicholas Kristof, Special Report on Africa. Click on link at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/magazine/25SUDAN.html

Notes on Malanga, Cocoyam, and Taro

M. Nerlove, "Transforming Economics: Theodore W. Schultz, 1902-1998: In Memoriam," The Economic Journal, 109, no. 459 (1999): 726. 

M. Nerlove, "Zvi Griliches, 1930-1999: A Critical Appreciation," The Economic Journal, 111,  (2001): F422-F448.

M. Nerlove, "The Malthusian Model of the Relation between Population and Food Supply," unpublished.

M. Nerlove, Reflections on Agricultural Development, Population Growth and the Environment,"

published in M. G, Quibria and J. M. Dowling, Current Issues in Economic Development: An Asian Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp.299-347. (See especially pp. 8-22 of the electronic version for a discussion of the Malthusian paradigm and the demographic transition.)

M. Nerlove, "In And Out Of Africa, July 27-August 23, 1996: A Journal"

M. Nerlove, "Slamatans and Sheep," unpublished.

Jin Kyo Suh, Agricultural Development and Structural Change in  the Context of General Economic Growth, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, 2000,   Chapters 1-2

Washington Post series on AIDS in Africa

Beyond Six Billion

Transgenic Plants and World Agriculture

National Academy of Sciences: Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease (2001)

Back-to-back letters of credit 

A Short Note on the Cobb-Douglas Production Function and Growth Accounting

Analysis of Midterm One 2007

The Ard and the Plow

Financial Repression

The Human Hand

Genus Homo