Dr. Robert A. Blewett
Rank:
Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1980
M.A., Virginia Tech, 1976
B.S., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1974
Initial Appointment at SLU:
1983
Previous Employment:
Fulbright Senior Lecturer, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, 1983-1984
Western Illinois University, 1979-1983
University of California, Davis, 1977-1978
Fields of Specialization:
Economic Development
African Economies
Public Finance
Selected Publications:
Robert A. Blewett and Jeffrey T. Young, "When Aggregate Demand is Not Aggregate Demand: A Pedagogical Note on the Aggregate Demand and Supply Model," New York Economic Review, 1995.
Robert A. Blewett, "Property Rights as a Cause of the Tragedy of the Commons: Institutional Change and the Pastoral Maasai of Kenya," Eastern Economic Journal, Fall 1995. [Awarded the Eastern Economics Association's Otto Eckstein Prize for best article in 1995 and 1996.]
Robert A. Blewett and Michael F. Farley, "Institutional Constraints on Entrepreneurship in Kenya's Popular Music Industry" in African Entrepreneurship: Theory and Reality edited by Anita Spring and Barbara E. McDade (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1998).
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