Presentations

1998

  • "Employment and Unemployment Trends in the San Joaquin Valley, California" "Barriers to Job Creation in the San Joaquin Valley, California,"

  • "Strategies for Promoting Job Creation in the San Joaquin Valley, California"

  • Central California Futures Institute, Empirical and Action Research

  • Conference: The 73rd annual meeting of Western Economic Association International, Lake Tahoe, June 28- July 2, "Institutional Quality and Economic Development"

1994-98

  • "Employment and Unemployment" and "Wages and Salaries," Kern Economic Trends, six quarterly newsletters including

  • "Help-Wanted Ads." and "Retail Sales" (by M. Evans) and "Industrial Employment" and "Coincident Index" (by M. Malixi)

1996

  • Article: "Mexico's Economy- 1995," Bakersfield Business Journal, February- March, p. 7

1994

  • Lecture: "Economic Growth in Kern County, 1960-2000" (with M. Evans), 25th Anniversary Faculty Lecture Series, CSUB

  • Conference: The 69th annual meeting of Western Economic Association International, Vancouver, June 29- July 3, "The Politico-economic Behavior of Authoritarian Governments: An Extension

1993

  • Teaching Seminar: "Economic Forces in American History," Foundation for Teaching Economics, San Francisco, October 8-10

  • Panel: The Israeli- Palestinian Peace Accord: A Faculty Discussion, CSUB, October 6

  • Paper: Review of the ETS "Major Field Achievement Test in Economics," for Clearinghouse for Higher Education Instruments, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, September

  • Lecture: "Internationalizing the High School Curriculum in Economics," Summer Institute of Kern Union High School District, June

  • Lecture: "Opportunity Costs and Economic Decision Making," Enterprise College, CSUB, June

  • Lecture: "The Political Economy of Oil," Department of Physics, CSUB, May

  • Article: "A Close Look at the Local Economy," Econ News, CSUB, Spring

  • Teaching Seminar: "The Middle East in the Post-Cold War World," Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, Los Angeles, April 16-17

  • Lecture: "President Clinton's Policy for Economic Growth," Conference On California's Budget Crisis, Bakersfield College, March

1992

  • Conference: The 67th annual meeting of Western Economic Association International, San Francisco, July 9-13, "Monetary Cooperation and Economic Growth in Africa"

  • Panel: "Prospects of Peace in the Middle East," CSUB, January

1991

  • Article: "Israel Benefit: Peace in Region Stimulates Economy," The Bakersfield Californian, Sunday, B5, 27 October

  • Conference: The 66th annual meeting of Western Economic Association International, Seattle, June 29-July 3, "Economic Development in Muslim Countries: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis"

  • M.A. Thesis Advisor (with D. McMillin and J. Granskey): CSUB, Karimeh S. Amin, Divorce in America: An Analysis of Social and Economic Characteristics

  • Panel: "Should the U.S. Go to War? Some Facts and Moral Implications Concerning the Impending Persian Gulf War," CSUB, January

  • Interview: "World Economy and the Persian Gulf War," KERN Radio 1410 AM, January

  • Interview: "Economic Consequences of the Persian Gulf War," KBAK- ABC, January

1990

  • Lecture: "Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function: Robert Solow's Contribution," Pizza Seminar IV, Department of Economics, CSUB, November

  • Interview: "Crisis in Persian Gulf," The Epic of Foothill High, 31, 1, 19 October

  • Interview: "Economic Consequences of the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait," KBAK- August

  • Conference: The 65th annual meeting of Western Economic Association International, San Diego, June 28- July 3, "Development and Democracy in the Third World"

  • Lecture: "Economic Development in the Third World," Enterprise College, CSUB, June

  • Lecture: "Economic Development in the Middle East," Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, CSUB, May

1989

  • Lecture: "Human Rights and Third World Development," Department of Political Science, CSUB, March

1988

  • Paper: "The Political Economy of Third World Development," Department of Economics, UCB, November, and Department of Mineral Economics, CSM, October

  • Paper: "Inflation and Inflation Variability in Latin America," Department of Economics, State University of New York, College at Fredonia, May, and Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, April

1987

  • Lecture: "Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function: A Review of Robert Solow's Contribution," Economics Institute, UCB, September

  • M.A. Thesis Advisor (with C. W. Howe and R. F. McNown): UCB, Christian R. von Hirschhausen, Energy Demand in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Aggregate Energy Demand and Substitutability between Energy and other Inputs in Manufacturing Sector in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh 1953-82

  • Teaching Seminar: "World Agriculture" by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., May

1986

  • Lecture: "The Economics of Family: Contributions of Gary Becker," Bank Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, December

  • Teaching Seminar: "World Agribusiness" by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., May

1985

  • Paper: "Economic Development and Political Change in the Third World," Economics Institute, UCB, September

  • Teaching Seminar: "World Development" by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., May

1984

  • Paper: "Gains from Trade in Developing Countries," Economics Institute, UCB, March

1983

  • Paper: "Inflation in the Third World," Economics Institute, UCB, February

1982

  • Teaching Seminar: "Effective Teaching in Principles of Economics," UCB, July