Teaching
Courses Taught
Undergraduate courses
Micro-behavior and macro-outcomes (first year writing seminar)
Economics of Happiness (first year writing seminar)
Introductory microeconomic theory
Introductory macroeconomic theory
Intermediate macroeconomic theory
International trade
Open economy macroeconomics
Development economics
Mathematical economics
Consumption and happiness
Economics of war and peace
Economics, Ethics and Public Policy
Graduate courses
Macroeconomic theory
Advanced macroeconomic theory
Theory of growth and distribution
Development economics
Political Economy of development
International trade
Special topics in international and development economics: North-South interaction and uneven development
History of economic thought
Political economy (non-orthodox approaches to economic theory)
Mathematics for economists
Political economy of war and peace.
Teaching Positions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Economics
Teaching Assistant, Fall 1980 to Summer 1982.
Florida International University
Department of Economics
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 1982-Spring 1983
Assistant Professor, Fall 1983-Summer 1987
Associate Professor, Fall 1987-Summer 1988
Graduate Program in International Studies
Associate Director, Fall 1986-Summer 1988
University of Notre Dame
Department of Economics
(Renamed: Department of Economics and Policy Studies, from 2003)
Associate Professor, August 1988-August 1990
Professor, August 1990-date
Acting Chairperson, August 1990-August 1991
Chairperson, August 1993-August 1996, August 1996-August 1999
Visiting Teaching Positions
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Economics
Visiting Professor
June-July 1986 - lectured on: Growth, distribution and inflation
University of Pavia, Italy, Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods
Visiting Professor
May 1993 - lectured on: Growth, distribution and uneven development
University of Innsbruck , Austria, Institut fur Wirtschafttheorie
Visiting Professor,
May 1996, lectured on: Growth, distribution and uneven development
April 2000, lectured on: North-South interaction and uneven development
November 2001, lectured on: Globalization, uneven development and international institutions
May 2004, lectured on: International Development and international institutions
June 2006, lectured on: International Institutions, Global Efficiency and Equality, and International Development
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico, Department of Economics
Visiting Professor
March 1997, lectured on: Growth, distribution and uneven development
Facultdad Latinamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador, Department of Economics
Visiting Professor
July-August 2007, lectured on: Analytical political economy of development