Shahid Alam

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Title
Professor of Economics
Department
Economics
Institution
Northeastern University

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, Western University, 1979

Research Interests

Tenured Faculty   Global Economy   Development Economics  

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Biography

M. Shahid Alam has been teaching economics at Northeastern University since 1988. Before coming to Northeastern, he had taught at University of Karachi, Queens University, Concordia University and Colgate University. Over the past several years, he has taught the following undergraduate courses: "Economic History of the Middle East", "History of the Global Economy", "Critique of Capitalism and Development Economics." In Spring 2014, he offered a new course - "Critical Perspectives on Economics." His research interests extend over the following questions - Dynamics of capitalism; Alternative approaches to the study of economics; Critiques of mainstream economics; Political economy of corruption; Economic stagnation in the Middle East since 1500s; and Qur'anic reasoning. Professor Alam currently serves as faculty adviser to two student clubs - Students for Justice in Palestine and Political Economy Forum.

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  617.373.2849

Research
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List of Publications (149)
In 2016
149

Commodities in Economics: Loving or Hating Complexity. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2756839, 2016.

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148

Ghazal: Staying True. MS Alam NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW 301 (4), 26-26, 2016.

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147

Poverty from the Wealth of Nations: Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy since 1760. M Alam Springer, 2016.

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In 2015
146

Tenure and Turnover: Re-Creating Markets for Tenured Faculty. MS Alam Browser Download This Paper, 2015.

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In 2013
145

Commodities in Economics: A Brief History. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2262980, 2013.

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144

Job Exchanges for Professors: Could this Save Tenure?. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2271790, 2013.

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143

Did Colonialism Retard Human Resource Development? Theory and Cross-Country Evidence. MS Alam Theory and Cross-Country Evidence (June 6, 2013), 2013.

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142

Constant Returns to Scale: Can the Neoclassical Economy Exist?. MS Alam .

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141

Two approaches to global competition: a historical review. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2270294, 2013.

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140

Constant returns to scale: Can the market economy exist?. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2231247, 2013.

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In 2012
139

Colonialism and Industrialization: Empirical Results. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2031131, 2012.

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138

How Different are Islamicate Societies?. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2038503, 2012.

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137

The War Against Global Terrorism. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2038984, 2012.

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136

Has Imran Khan's Political Tsunami Hit Pakistani Shores?. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2045481, 2012.

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135

Native Orientalists in Pakistan. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2050547, 2012.

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134

Reviews: Location-Aware Services and QR Codes for Libraries. C Gilbert Australian Academic & Research Libraries 43 (3), 251-251, 2012.

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133

How Eurocentric is Your Day?. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2130811, 2012.

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132

Trading Professors: Re-Creating Markets for Tenured Faculty. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2018902, 2012.

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131

Is There an Islamic Problem?. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2038446, 2012.

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In 2011
130

Pragmatic Arguments in the Quran for Belief. MS Alam Available at SSRN 1895559, 2011.

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In 2010
129

The Quranic Paradigm: A Contest Over Man. MS Alam Available at SSRN 1706449, 2010.

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128

Ishmael and Isaac: An Essay on the Moral Economies of the Qur'an and the Torah. MS Alam Available at SSRN 1715104, 2010.

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127

A Eurocentric Problem. MS Alam .

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In 2009
126

The Lobby Gains Clout. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 191-212, 2009.

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125

BERNARD LEWIS: BLM M YANILTMACA MI?. MS ALAM Tarih Okulu Dergisi 2009 (1I), 2009.

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124

A Land Without a People. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 71-79, 2009.

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123

Jewish Factors in Zionist Success. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 81-93, 2009.

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122

Provoking Arab Hostility. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 173-181, 2009.

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121

From Liability to Asset. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 163-172, 2009.

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120

A Violent History. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 25-30, 2009.

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119

Zionism in Nuce. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 31-37, 2009.

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118

British Interests and Zionism. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 103-116, 2009.

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117

Anti-Semitism and Zionism. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 117-127, 2009.

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116

The June War. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 183-190, 2009.

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115

The Arabs Hate Us. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 39-45, 2009.

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114

A People Without a Land. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 61-70, 2009.

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113

Christian Zionism. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 129-135, 2009.

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112

A Summing Up. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 213-220, 2009.

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111

Before the Special Relationship. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 147-162, 2009.

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110

Sources of Exceptionalism. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 17-22, 2009.

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109

A Surfeit of Mother Countries. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 95-102, 2009.

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108

Varieties of Exceptionalism. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 3-16, 2009.

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107

A Secular Messianism. MS Alam Israeli Exceptionalism, 47-60, 2009.

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106

The Israel Lobby: Creating an Engine of Geopolitics. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2234756, 2009.

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105

Bringing energy back into the economy. MS Alam Review of Radical Political Economics 41 (2), 170-185, 2009.

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104

Israeli exceptionalism: the destabilizing logic of Zionism. MS Alam Springer, 2009.

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In 2008
103

Bringing Energy Back Into the Economy: Examining Economic Growth With Energy. MS Alam Available at SSRN 950211, 2008.

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In 2007
102

US Imperialism and the Third World. MS Alam MONTHLY REVIEW-NEW YORK- 58 (9), 55, 2007.

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In 2006
101

Challenging the new orientalism: dissenting essays on the" War against Islam". MS Alam Islamic Pubns Intl, 2006.

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100

Global disparities since 1800: Trends and regional patterns. MS Alam Available at SSRN 951746, 2006.

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99

Economic growth with energy. MS Alam Northeastern University, Boston, 2006.

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In 2005
98

Some Economic Results of the Civilizing Mission. MS Alam Available at SSRN 950876, 2005.

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97

Global disparities: of people and pets. MS Alam Available at SSRN 952108, 2005.

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96

The economy as an energy system. S Alam Northeastern University, 2005.

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In 2004
95

Is There an Islamic Problem?: Essays on Islamicate Societies, the US, and Israel. MS Alam The Other Press, 2004.

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94

Colonialism and industrialization: A critique of Lewis. MS Alam Review of Radical Political Economics 36 (2), 217-240, 2004.

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In 2003
93

Racism Across Civilizations: Greece, Western Europe, Islam and China. MS Alam Science and Society 67 (2), 205-217, 2003.

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92

Economic development and cultural change. GJ Wen, SW Huang, I Tunahl, JB Nugent, N Sanchez, RA Azhar, ... .

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91

A short history of the global economy since 1800. MS Alam Available at SSRN 951929, 2003.

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90

Beyond sinocentrism and eurocentrism. RB Wong Science & Society 67 (2), 173-184, 2003.

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89

Articulating group differences: A variety of autocentrisms. MS Alam Science & Society 67 (2), 205-217, 2003.

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In 2002
88

Bernard Lewis: Scholarship or Sophistry?. MS Alam Available at SSRN 989606, 2002.

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87

A clash of civilizations? nonsense. MS Alam The Journal of the Historical Society, 379-395, 2002.

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In 2000
86

Measuring Sovereignty Differentials. MS Alam Poverty from the Wealth of Nations, 120-166, 2000.

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85

Integration and Polarization since 1760. MS Alam Poverty from the Wealth of Nations, 24-47, 2000.

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84

Mapping Sovereignty. MS Alam Poverty from the Wealth of Nations, 94-119, 2000.

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83

Theories: Orthodoxy and Dissent. MS Alam Poverty from the Wealth of Nations, 48-69, 2000.

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82

Sovereignty Matters!. MS Alam Poverty from the Wealth of Nations, 70-93, 2000.

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81

How advanced was Europe in 1760 after all?. MS Alam Review of Radical Political Economics 32 (4), 610-630, 2000.

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80

Economic Impact of Colonialism, 1800-1950. MS Alam Available at SSRN 2029575, 2000.

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79

A review on plant protection research in Balochistan [Pakistan], history and future. AH Hazara, AH Bajoi, MS Alam, Z Hafiz Balochistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences (Pakistan), 2000.

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78

Poverty from the Wealth of Nations. MS Alam Integration and, 2000.

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77

Introduction. MS Alam Poverty from the Wealth of Nations, 1-23, 2000.

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In 1999
76

Does Sovereignty Matter for Growth? An Analysis of Growth Rates Between 1870 and 1950. MS Alam .

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75

Does sovereignty matter for economis growth? An analysis of growth rates between 1870 and 1950. MS Alam Chapters, 1999.

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In 1998
74

Corruption and Countervailing Action in Pakistan. M Shahid Alam IEA CONFERENCE VOLUME SERIES 119, 212-226, 1998.

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73

Corruption and countervailing action in Pakistan. MS Alam The political dimension of economic growth, 212-224, 1998.

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In 1997
72

Dynamic Efficiencies of Industrialization and Economic Growth: An Aggregative Approach. SR Khan, C Bilginsoy, MS Alam Economia Internazionale/International Economics 50 (1), 85-98, 1997.

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In 1995
71

A theory of limits on corruption and some applications. MS Alam Kyklos 48 (3), 419-435, 1995.

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In 1994
70

Colonialism, decolonisation and growth rates: theory and empirical evidence. MS Alam Cambridge Journal of Economics 18 (3), 235-257, 1994.

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In 1993
69

Corruption, Development and Underdevelopment Robin Theobald. MS Alam Economic Development and Cultural Change 42 (1), 1993.

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68

CORRUPTION, DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT-THEOBALD, R. MS Alam Economic development and cultural change 42 (1), 206-210, 1993.

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In 1992
67

Convergence and polarization: testing for an inverted-U relation between growth rates and GDP per capita. MS Alam, A Naseer Applied Economics 24 (3), 363-367, 1992.

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66

Convergence in developed countries: an empirical investigation. MS Alam Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 128 (2), 189-201, 1992.

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In 1991
65

Convergence tendencies: some time-series results. MS Alam Southern Economic Journal, 841-847, 1991.

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64

Trade orientation and macroeconomic performance in LDCs: an empirical study. MS Alam Economic Development and Cultural Change 39 (4), 839-848, 1991.

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63

A Reexamination of the Infant Industry Argument. MS Alam CEDAM, 1991.

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62

A Partial Equilibrium Analysis of Trade with Decreasing Transport Costs. MS Alam International Economic Journal 5 (4), 63-69, 1991.

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In 1990
61

Transaction costs of trade: some partial equilibrium results. MS Alam Southern Economic Journal, 323-329, 1990.

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60

Some economic costs of corruption in LDCs. MS Alam The Journal of Development Studies 27 (1), 89-97, 1990.

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In 1989
59

The South Korean'Miracle': Examining the Mix of Government and Markets. MS Alam The Journal of Developing Areas 23 (2), 233-258, 1989.

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58

Governments and markets in economic development strategies: Lessons from Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. MS Alam Praeger Publishers, 1989.

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57

Anatomy of corruption: an approach to the political economy of underdevelopment. MS Alam American Journal of Economics and Sociology 48 (4), 441-456, 1989.

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56

CONTROLLING CORRUPTION-KLITGAARD, R. MS ALAM JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES 26 (1), 184-186, 1989.

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In 1988
55

Domestic monopoly, quotas, two-way trade and tariff-equivalence. MS Alam Southern Economic Journal, 202-205, 1988.

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In 1987
54

Some European Perceptions of Japan's Workethos in the Tokugawa Era: A Limited Survey of Observations from the West's First Encounters Offers Parallels to Today's. MS Alam American Journal of Economics and Sociology 46 (2), 229-243, 1987.

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53

Determinants of employment expansion in the services sector: a cross-country study of LDCs. MS Alam The Journal of Developing Areas 22 (1), 25-40, 1987.

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In 1986
52

The South Korean Miracle: Economics, Politics & Beyond. MS Alam, Concordia University. Dept. of Economics Concordia University, Department of Economics, 1986.

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51

Tariff Equilibrium: A Reformulation. MS Alam, Concordia University. Dept. of Economics Concordia University, Department of Economics, 1986.

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50

Smuggling in the Presence of a Revenue-financed Public Good and Revenue-seeking. MS Alam, Concordia University. Dept. of Economics Concordia University, Department of Economics, 1986.

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49

Is the Standard Tariff Equilibrium Stable?. MS Alam, Concordia University. Dept. of Economics Concordia University, Department of Economics, 1986.

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In 1985
48

Determinants of Service Sector Employment Expansion in LDCs: an Empirical Investigation. MS Alam, RA Azhar, Wilfrid Laurier University. Dept. of Economics, ... School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1985.

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47

Some notes on work ethos and economic development. MS Alam World Development 13 (2), 1985.

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46

Dynamic Efficiencies of Industrialization in LDCs: Some Empirical Tests. MS Alam Queen's University, Department of Economics Working Papers, 1985.

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45

Savings and Industrialization: Some Hypotheses Suggested by Lewis and Others. MS Alam Queen's University, Department of Economics Working Papers, 1985.

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44

Why Has Japan Succeeded? An Account of Japan's Work-Ethos in the Tokugawa Era. MS Alam Queen's University, Department of Economics Working Papers, 1985.

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43

Hirschman on Labour Productivity Differentials: Some Further Results. MS Alam, ... Kingston, Ont.: Institute for Economic Research, Queen's University, 1985.

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42

Hirschman on Labour Productivity Differentials. MS Alam Queen's University, Department of Economics Working Papers, 1985.

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In 1984
41

Hirschman's Taxonomy of Industries: Some Hypotheses and Evidence. MS Alam Economic Development and Cultural Change 32 (2), 367-372, 1984.

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40

Consumption and Employment Effects of Income Redistribution in Pakistan [with Comments]. AA Cheema, MH Malik, MS Alam The Pakistan Development Review 23 (2/3), 347-363, 1984.

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39

Import substitution growth: a simple intersectoral analysis. MS Alam Pakistan journal of applied economics 3 (2), 157-160, 1984.

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In 1983
38

The Nature of Mass Poverty: A Review Article. MS Alam Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics 2 (1), 85, 1983.

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37

Intrafirm Productivity: Comment. MS Alam The American Economic Review 73 (4), 817-821, 1983.

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36

Efficiency differentials favouring resource-based industries. MS Alam Journal of development economics 13 (3), 361-366, 1983.

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In 1982
35

An Alternative Theory of the Brain Drain. MS Alam Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics 1 (1-2), 47, 1982.

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34

The basic macroeconomics of oil economies. MS Alam The journal of development studies 18 (2), 205-216, 1982.

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33

A SIMPLE FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING CURRENCY DEVALUATIONS UNDER EXCHANGE CONTROL. MS Alam MALAYAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 27 (1), 15-20, 1982.

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32

Cardiovascular collapse after the use of fazadinium. MS Alam Anaesthesia 37 (6), 696-696, 1982.

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In 1981
31

Welfare implications of trade policies: three essays. MS Alam .

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30

Welfare implications of growth under quotas. MS Alam Economics Letters 8 (2), 177-180, 1981.

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In 1980
29

Capital decumulation and trade expansion: A theory of colonial trade. MS Alam The Bangladesh Development Studies, 29-38, 1980.

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28

THEORY OF SMUGGLING IN RESPONSE TO QUOTAS-THE LARGE COUNTRY CASE. MS Alam MALAYAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 25 (2), 39-47, 1980.

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27

Rentiers Or Rent-seekers?: Some Clarifications. MS Alam Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi, 1980.

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26

The Basic Macroeconomics of an Oil Economy. MS Alam Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi, 1980.

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In 1978
25

A Framework for Analysing Balance of Payments Policies and Industrialisation in Developing Economies. MS Alam Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi, 1978.

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In 1974
24

Economics of the landed interests: a case study of Pakistan. MS Alam Pakistan Economic and Social Review 12 (1), 12-26, 1974.

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In 1800
23

Free Trade, Imperialism and Unequal Development in the Global Economy, 1800-1950. MS Alam Imperialism and Unequal Development in the Global Economy 1950, 1800.

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22

Professor Alam's translations from the poetry of Ghalib as well as his own poetry have recently appeared (or will appear) in Blackbird, Raritan, Southern Review, Western Humanities Review, Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, and Salamander.

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21

Collapse Related News. MS Alam .

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20

Worlds Greatest Country. MS Alam .

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19

Encontr por fin Israel la horma de su zapato?. MS Alam .

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18

USA and USSR: Accidental Parallels?. MS Alam .

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Collapse Out News. MS Alam .

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News and Document archive source. MS ALAM .

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15

Dawn of Victory. MS Alam .

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14

Occidente y el eurocentrismo cartogrfico Comunidad chanta 3. MS Alam .

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Regional News. MS Alam .

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Eurocentrism Article. MS Alam .

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11

Winograd's Earthquake. MS Alam .

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10

News Categories ISLAMIC RESISTANCE Israeli Terror Aggressions-Lebanon. MS Alam .

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9

News Categories ISLAMIC RESISTANCE Victories 2006 Divine Victory. MS Alam .

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News Categories ISLAMIC RESISTANCE Israeli Terror July 2006 Aggression. MS Alam .

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7

Global Economy. MS Alam .

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6

The developed countries, the World Bank, and the IMF need not play a role. If liberalization is the child of today, the authors of the chapters in this book are attendant upon the one-parent family. MS Alam .

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and Cultural Change. RH Adams Jr, D Chapman, R Barker, MJ Wells, Y Kislev, Z Lerman, ... .

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4

Followers 0. MS Alam .

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11 Corruption and Countervailing Action in Pakistan. MS Alam .

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and Cultural Change. M Eileen, RA Easterlin, J Shireen, NH Leff, S Labor, WJ House, N Folbre, ... .

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1

Science and Society (Summer 2003, forthcoming). MS Alam .

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