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Publications:

"Clock‑Time vs. Real‑Time:  A Comparison of the Lengths of the Northern and Southern Agricultural Work‑Years," in Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman (eds.), Without Consent or Contract:  Markets and Production, Technical Papers on Slavery, Vol. I, W.W. Norton and Company, 1992.

"The Occupational Structure of Southern Plantations during the Antebellum Era," in Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman (eds.), Without Consent or Contract:  Markets and Production, Technical Papers on Slavery, Vol. I, W.W. Norton and Company, 1992.

"Basic Procedures for the Computation of Output and Inputs from the Parker‑Gallman Sample, Including a Procedure for the Elimination of Defective Observations," with Stanley L. Engerman in Robert W. Fogel, Ralph A. Galantine, and Richard L. Manning (eds.), Without Consent or Contract:  Evidence and Methods, W.W. Norton and Company, 1992.

Member (1989‑90) Academic Advisory Board for Annual Editions:   Money and Banking, James P. Egan (ed.), The Duskin Publishing Group, Inc., Guilford, Connecticut.

Review of Robert Skidelsky's John Maynard Keynes:  Hopes Betrayed 1883‑1920, vol. 1, published in "Library Journal," September 1986.

Papers and Colloquia Presented:

      "Plantation Slavery in the Antebellum South," Faculty Development
      Committee Faculty Presentation Series, College of St. Benedict, November
      1991.

"Slaves, Mules, and Cotton:  Livestock and Labor Specialization on Antebellum Plantations," Midwest Economics Association annual meetings, Chicago, March 1986; Eastern Economics Association annual meetings, Philadelphia, April 1986.

"The Men Between:  Slave Drivers on Antebellum Plantations," Department of Economics Colloquium, Xavier University, Spring 1985; Department of Economics, Widener University, February 1985; Department of Economics, University of Puget Sound, February 1984; Economics and History Workshops, DePauw University, October 1982; Economic History and Applied Microeconomic Theory Workshops, Indiana University, October 1982; Department of Economics Colloquium, University of Connecticut, December 1980.

      "Plantation Operations and Organization of Slave Labor in the Antebellum
       South," Department of Economics, College of St. Benedict, March 1985;
       Rose‑Hulman Institute of Technology, February 1984; Department of
       Economics Colloquium, University of Connecticut, March 1979.

"Some Notes on the Occupational Distribution of the Slave Labor Force on Southern Plantations," Workshop in Economic History, Harvard University, April 1977.

"A
Clock‑Time vs. Real‑Time:  A Comparison of the Lengths of the Northern and Southern Agricultural Work‑Years," Workshop in Comparative Social History, University of Chicago, May 1976.

 

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