Mwangi wa Githinji (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts)

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Mwangi wa Githinji
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts, 
902 Thompson Hall
200 Hicks Way
Amherst, Massachusetts  01003  USA

phone:     413-545 1373
fax:       503-212-7343
e-mail:    mwangi@econs.umass.edu



Research and teaching interests

-  The political economy of development with particular interest in Africa 
and issues of inequality, poverty, rural development and the environment.
-  Marxian Class analysis
-  The impact of East Asian development on African countries

Selected publications

Books:

An Employment-Targetted Economic Plan for Kenya (with Robert Pollin and 
James Heintz), UNDP and PERI 2007 (Forthcoming Edward Elgar 2008).

Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars: A Study of Income and 
Development in Kenya, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, England (December 
2000).


Chapters in Books:

"Income, Working Standards and Labor Mobility: Planning for an Integrated 
African Economy," ( with Patrick Mason) in Sylvain Boko and Diery Seck 
(eds) NEPAD and the Future of Economic Policy in Africa, African World 
Press, New Jersey (2008)

"Untying the Gordian Knot: The Question of Land Reform in Ethiopia," (with 
Gebru Mersha) in A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi (ed.) Land Policies, Poverty 
Reduction and Public Action, Routledge Press, (January 2007).

"Class Transition in the Age of Globalization: Uneven Development in Rural 
India and Kenya," (with Anjan Chakrabarti and Stephen Cullenberg) in 
Robert Pollin et al. (eds.) Egalitarian Development in the Era of 
Globalization, Edward Elgar Press (July 2006)


Journal Articles:

"Kenya's Hopes and Impediments. (with Frank Holmquist) Journal of Eastern 
African Studies (Forthcoming 2008)

"Excavating for Economics in Africana Studies," (With Patrick Mason) 
Journal of Black Studies. (Forthcoming 2008)

"Deconstructing the Peasantry: Class and Development in Rural Kenya," 
(with S. Cullenberg) Critical Sociology, Volume 29, Issue 1, April 2003 
pp. 67-88.

"Income Distribution and Dualism: The Case of Kenya," Review of 
Development Economics, October 2000, Volume 4, Issue 3, pp 326-339.

"Environmental Degradation and Poverty in Less Industrialized Nations," 
(with T. Kelly) Frontera Norte, Nm. Especial: Pobreza, 1994, pp. 77-89.

"Social and Ecological Sustainability in the Use of Biotic Resources in 
Sub-Saharan Africa," (with C. Perrings) Ambio, Volume 22 No. 2-3, May 
1993, pp.110-116.