My interest in economics was spurred by a two-year Peace Corps stint in Northeastern Brazil (1965-67). The contrast between rich land and poor people was overwhelming. People working hard yet living in such grinding poverty that fewer than half their babies lived to adulthood was at odds with everything I thought I knew about how economies worked. The publications listed here were part of the fruits of my subsequent study of the economics of underdevelopment.

• Sugar and the Underdevelopment of Northeastern Brazil, 1500-1970, University Presses of Florida, Gainesville 1978 (University of Florida Social Sciences Monograph Number 63).
  
  
  
  
  

  ...scholarly yet extremely well written. ...challenges orthodox interpretations using institutional and neo-Marxist concepts ...refreshing and novel interpretations without dogma. ...definitely deserves a wide audience among those interested in problems of dependence, Latin American and Caribbean issues, and the persistence of poverty. ---Choice, June 1979

  
  
  
• "Sugar and Slavery in Northeastern Brazil," Agricultural History, July, 1970. This article won the Everett E. Edwards Memorial Award for 1970 for the best article by a graduate student published in Agricultural History
  
  
• "Brazil's Northeast: Sugar and Surplus Value," Monthly Review, March 1969.
  
  
• "The Dilemma of an International Labor Market," The Collegiate Forum (Dow Jones & Co.), Fall 1983.
  
  
• Various book reviews for Choice and Science & Society.