JAMES MARTIN CYPHER
Dr.
James Martin Cypher es profesor de economia y jefe del Departamento de
Economia
en
la Universidad Estatal de California, ubicado en Fresno, California, EE.
UU.
Recibío
su doctorado en Economía en 1973 desde La Universidad de California,
Riverside,
EE. UU. con un tesis sobre los efectos macroeconómicos de los gastos
militares
de los EE.UU. entre los años 1947-1970. El Dr. Cypher es autor de
mas
de
cincuenta artículos publicados en revistas de los EE.UU., Inglaterra,
México,
Alemania,
y Colombia, entre otros.
Entre
sus afiliaciones profesionales ha sido profesor visitante en la UAM, Iztapalapa
en
México por el año académico 1982-1983 y Investigador
Invitado por el ano 1988 en
el
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas de la UNAM en
México.
Publicaciones:
Static and dynamic comparative
advantege: multi-period analysisi whth declining terms of trade
James M. Cypher and James L. Dietz
Crisis tendencies
of the 1990s: constraints on the ideology of globalization?
James M. Cypher
Presentado al Seminaro Internacional
"Globalización, inserción
de México y alternativas incluyentes para el siglo XXI"
The Process of Economic Development
Theory, Institutions, Applications and Evidence
James M. Cypher, James L. Dietz
Routledge. ISBN: 0415110289.
13 MAR 1997
Drawing together recent changes
in the debates with the history of the subject, The Process of Development
Economics is a textbook with a
story to tell. A discussion of recent events is integral to the book, with
discussions ranging from
* the environment
* the debt crisis
* export led industrialization
* import substitution industrialization
* growth theory and technological
capability.
The book has an accessible style
and format. Plentiful diagrams, boxed summaries, and end of chapter q
uestions help the reader to grasp
many-faceted topics.
Coverage includes Latin America,
Africa and Asia giving students a uniquely balanced world picture.
Contents:
Part One: An Overview of Economic
Development 1. The Development Imperative 2. Measuring Economic
Growth and Development 3. Development
in Historical Perspective
Part Two: 4. Classical and Neoclassical
Theories 5. Developmentalist Theories of Economic Development
6. Heterodox Theories of Economic
Development
Part Three: The Structural Transformation
7. The State as a Potential Agent of Transformation: From
Neoliberalism to Embedded Autonomy
8. Endogonous Growth Theories 9. The Initial Structural
Transformation: The Industrialization
Process 10. Strategy Switching and Industrial Transformation 11.
Agriculture and Development 12.
Population, Education and Human Capital 13. Technology and Development
Part Four: 14. Transnational Corporations
and Economic Development 15. Macroeconomic Equilibrium:
The Internal Balance 16. Macroeconomic
Equilibrium: The External Balance 17. The Debt Problem and Development
18.
International Institutional Linkages:
The IMF, The World Bank, and Foreign Aid.
ENGLISH
Dr.
James M. Cypher received his Ph.D. degree in economics from the University
of California,
Riverside
in 1973. His B.A. and M.A. degrees were awarded by University of California,
Santa
Barbara.
His early research interests were focused on the macroeconomic impacts
of US military
spending,
and he has published numerous articles in this area. Since the late 1980s
he has
concentrated
on the Mexican Economy and issues of internationalization and economic
development
of poor nations. His book, State and Capital in Mexico (Westview, 1990)
was
published
in Mexico by Siglo XXI publishers. He has taught or worked at several universities
in
Latin
America, and is currently engaged in a large project to assess the pattern
of industrialization
in
Chile. The senior member of the Department’s faculty, Dr. Cypher has devoted
his career to
undergraduate
teaching for over three decades. With James Dietz he co-authored a text,
The
Process
of Economic Development (Routledge) the second edition of which will appear
in 2003.
Representative
Publications
Books
The
Process of Economic Development (London: Routledge, 1997, pp. 608) with
James Dietz.
State and Capital in Mexico: Development Policy Since 1940 (Boulder, Co.:Westview Press, 1990)
Chapters
in Books
"Recent
Tendencies in Development Economics: Bringing Institutions Back In?"
in
Institutional Analysis and Economic Policy Marc Tool and Paul D. Bush editors
(Kluwer
Academic Publishers: The Netherlands, forthcoming 2002)
“Tendencias
a la crisis en los noventa: ¿obstaculos a la ideología de
la globalización?”
In
Globalización y alternativas incluyentes para el siglo XXI Jorge
Basave, Alejandro Dabat,
Carlos
Morera, Miguel Angel Rivera Rios, coordinadores (Mexico:UNAM 2002) pp.
189-213.
"El
modelo de desarrollo exportador: El caso de México" en Mundialización,
transnacionalización
y
subdesarrollo Gregorio Vidal coordinador (Mexico: UNAM, UAM, UAZ, 2001)
pp.137-162.
“Financial
Dominance in the US Economy” in Institutionalist Theory and Applications
v. 2, ed.
by
S. Fayazmanesh and M. Tool (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar 1998) pp. 66-88.
Articles
in Refereed Journals and Sources
“Developing
Disarticulation Within the Mexican Economy,” Latin American Perspectives
V.
28 no. 3 (May, 2001) pp. 11-37.
“Nafta’s
Lessons: From Economic Mythology to Current Realities,” Labor Studies Journal
V. 26
no.
1 (Spring 2001) pp. 5-21.
“The
Slow Death of the Washington Consensus on Latin America,” Latin American
Perspectives
v.
25, no. 6 (November 1998) pp. 47-51.
“Static
and Dynamic Comparative Advantage: A Multi-Period Analysis with Declining
Terms of
Trade”
(with James Dietz) Journal of Economic Issues v. 32, no. 2 (June 1998)
pp. 305-314.
"Las
vicisitudes de los países en vías de ajuste estructural,"
DESLINDE (Colombia) No. 20,
(febrero-abril,
1997) pp. 28-44.
"Mexico:
Financial Fragility or Structural Crisis?" Journal of Economic Issues,
V. XXX, No. 2
(June,
1996) pp. 451-461. Reprinted in Problemas del Desarrollo: Revista Latinoamericana
de
Economia,
V. 27, núm. 107, (octobre-diciembre 1996) pp. 203-215.
"The
Ideology of Economic Science in the Selling of NAFTA: The Political Economy
of Elite
Decision-Making,"Review
of Radical Political Economics, V. 25, no. 4, 1993, pp. 146-163.
Reprinted
in Economia: Teoria y Practica [Mexico] (No. 3, 1994) pp. 37-49.