Myron J Frankman

(Updated August 2, 2004)
Coordinates:
Department of Economics, McGill University
855 Sherbrooke St. W, Montreal , Quebec Canada H3A 2T7
Office: Leacock 536 Tel: (514)-398-4829 Fax: (514)-398-4938
E-mail: myron.frankman@mcgill.ca



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Field Experience

Lima, Peru: 1965-66 Dissertation research on policies affecting exports.

Santiago, Chile: July-Aug 1969, July-Aug 1971 Research on employment patterns in the service sector.

Lima, Peru: Dec. 1976 Research on economic policy.

Nairobi, Kenya. July-Aug 1993 Taught graduate course in Policy Analysis, Joint Facility for Electives. African Economic Research Consortium.

Santiago, Chile: 1995-96 Visiting Academic, Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Chile.


Writings

Book
World Democratic Federalism: Peace and Justice Indivisible --
in press (London-Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004)
Publishers's page (with link to "sample chapter" -- Contents, Ch.1, Index | Amazon.com | Amazon.ca (Available Aug 4 2004 in Canada at  lowest price that I am aware of)

Articles and Papers
Employment & Urbanization | Global Order | Trade & Exchange Rates | Other


Employment & Urbanization

(1971) "Urbanization and Development in Latin America," Cahiers de Géographie de Québec, IV (September), 344-50. [McLennan: G58 Q44]

(1972) "Labor Migration in Less Developed Countries: Comment," Manpower and Unemployment Research in Africa: A Newsletter, V (April), 1-5. [McLennan: HD5837 A6M33]

(1972) "Response to Reply to Comment," Manpower and Unemployment Research in Africa: A Newsletter, V (November), 51. [McLennan: HD5837 A6M33]

(1973) (with E.G. Charlé) "Employment in the Service Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of Modern African Studies, XI (June), 201-10. [McLennan: DT1 J68]

(1977) "Employment Policy for Colombia: Towards Full Employment and the Four Strategies,"Manpower and Unemployment Research, X (November), 33-44. [McLennan: HD5837 A6M33]

(1982) "Sectoral Employment Patterns: North and South," LABOUR, Capital and Society, 15 (November), 86- 98. [McLennan: HD5837 A6M33]

(1983) "Employment and the Unperceived Advantages of Being a Latecomer," in A. Ritter and D. Pollock, eds., Latin American Prospects for the 1980s: Equity, Democratization, and Development (N.Y.: Praeger), 135-46. [McLennan: HC125 L353 1983]


Global Order

(1971) "Financing International Cooperation: An Immodest Proposal"

(1979) "Hemispheric Integration: U.S.-Brazilian Economic  Relations During World War II"

 (1981) (with Patricia O. Frankman) "Diplomacy: The Roots of Dependence," in Jorge Nef, ed., Repression and Liberation in Latin America: Proceedings of the 1980 Conference of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, pp.204-212.

(1988) "Western Hemisphere Economic Cooperation: The United States and the Andean Countries During the Second World War"

(1989) "The Costs of Cooperation: Latin American Wartime Exports to the U.S."

(1989) "The Region and the Globe: External Perspectives on 1992," École des Hautes Études Commerciales, CETAI Cahiers de recherche no. 89-09.

(1990) "A Planetary Vision," Policy Options, 11 (April), 11-14.

(1990) "A Vision of the New Order"The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, 7 (Summer 1990), 127-29.

(1990) "Returning International Monetary Reform to the Agenda"

(1991) "North American Economic Cooperation: The Wartime Experience," Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 16, no. 2, 35-57. [McLennan: F1401 N67x]

(1992) "Global Income Redistribution: An Alternative Perspective on the Latin American Debt Problem," in A. Ritter, D. Pollock and M.A. Cameron, eds.. Latin America and the Caribbean to the Year 2000 (N.Y.: Praeger, 1992), pp. 41-51.

(1993) "Fractals and the Common Heritage of Humanity"

(1994) "Catching the Bus for Global Development: Gerschenkron Revisited" Journal of World- Systems Research 1, no. 2

(1994) "International Taxation: The Trajectory of an Idea From Lorimer to Brandt" [Revised version available in World Development, 24 (May 1996), 807-820.]

(1997) "No Global War? A Role for Democratic Global Federalism" Journal of World- Systems Research 3, no. 2

(1997) "Global Economy and Civil Society"

(1997) "Global Taxation: A Search for Generalizable Precedents"

(1997) "Planet-Wide Citizen's Income: Antidote to Global Apartheid"

(1998) "Hemispheric Integration"

(1998) "The Fight to Preserve Universal Social Programs:  A Canadian Perspective on the Great Capitalist Restoration"

(2000) "From Domination to Partnership: Living Together on a Small Planet"

(2001) “From the Common Heritage of Mankind to a Planet-Wide Citizen's Income: Establishing the Basis for Solidarity”

(2001) "Beyond the Tobin Tax: Global Democracy and a Global Currency"

(2002) "Funding a Planet-Wide Citizen's Income: Trial Calculations"

(2002) "A planet-wide citizen's income. Espousal and Estimates" (Word version)

(2002) "Global Taxation: Extending the Fractal"

(2004) "Ample Room at the Top: Financing a Planet-Wide Basic-Income," to be presented in Barcelona in September

Trade & Exchange Rates

(1968) Export Promotion and Developmental Priorities in Peru, 1946-1965. Ph. D disseration, University of Texas at Austin. [McLennan: HF3466 F7x]

(1974) "Sectoral Policy Preferences of the Peruvian Government 1946-1968,"Journal of Latin American Studies, VI (November), 289-300. [McLennan: F1401 J69]

(1975) "The South American Crawl: Exchange Rate Variation in Developing Countries," McGill Centre for Developing Area Studies Working Papers, No.12 (August).

(1975) "Foreign Exchange and Revolution: Peru, 1968-73," a paper presented at annual meeting of Canadian Association of Latin American Studies, Edmonton, May.


Other

(1986) "Stephen Leacock, Economist: An Owl Among the Parrots," in David Staines, ed., Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers Series), (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press), 51-58. [McLennan: PS8523 E13Z8 1986]

(1999) "Tennis,  Anyone?" [On teaching and learning]

(1999) "The Un-Disciplined Mind: Imagination Unbound"


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