Thomas R De Gregori
Biographic Data
| ID | 714004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas R De Gregori |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas R |
| FAMILY NAME | De Gregori |
| SIGNATURE | DE GREGORI T R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Economic Development in Africa
Surplus People and Expendable Children
South Africa's apartheid scheme is considered as a paradigm case for the creation and maltreatment of a putatively surplus population. Both active and passive policies are identified that are utilized to contain the numbers of the black population of the nation. Of particular significance is a strategy of neglect that has led to exceptionally high infant and child mortality rates in the “homelands.” In addition, the South African authorities’ eff…
The Future of Regionalism
A Theory of Technology
Science and Technology in a Changing International Order
Science, Politics, and the Agricultural Revolution in Asia
Inside the Black Box
Chemistry and World Food Supplies
Absorption and Diffusion of Imported Technology
Britain and Commonwealth Africa
Risk in the Technological Society
The Back-to-Nature Movement
Appropriate Technology and Social Values
In 1978, an international conference on technology choice and social values in the developed and developing nations was held at the Wingspread Conference Center of theJohnson Foundation in Racine, Wisconsin. The conference, organized by the American Academy, the International Pugwash Council, and the U.S. Pugwash Committee, was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Johnson Foundation, and the Exxon Corporation. A number of…
Through the '80's
Science and Colonial Expansion
Capitalism and the State in U.S.–Latin American Relations
The Capitalist World-Economy
(1980). The Capitalist World-Economy. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 781-783
Research in Economic History
Science and Technology for Development
Britain, Rhodesia, and South Africa 1900-1945
The Evolution of the International Economic Order
Foreign Direct Investment, Industrialization, and Social Change
In Perpetuity
Some of civilization's finest minds have focused on societal problems and reported the result in literary works. Literary sensitivity and sensibility ought to provide insight on the value consequences and normative dimensions of social science theorizing. These hypotheses are tested against some of the ideas on property, particularly property in land, in great works of literature, contrasted with some analogous ideas from economic theory. No swee…
Market Morality
The study of markets and market prices has been a central feature of economic inquiry since the 18th Century. There have always been lingering questions on the meaning of market prices. Most moderneconomists argue that there are no normative implications to price analysis. The disclaimers of some economists about normative judgments ring hollow in the light of their vigorous advocacy of free market solutions to economic and other problems. Either…
The Political Economy of Food and Energy
(1978). The Political Economy of Food and Energy. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 728-730.
An Economic History of West Africa
The Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries
The theme is the search for an optimum method to transfer technology. Topics include: historical cases of transfer; economic theory as applied to the technological gap concept; a reexamination of the seminal work of Schumpeter and continental scholars, comparatively unknown in the U.S.; analysis of socio-economic variables with particular reference to the possibility of utilizing simulation technique; and possible strategies for improved methods …
An Economic History of Nigeria, 1860-1960
Britain and Commonwealth Africa
Technology and the Economic Development of the Tropical African Frontier
The Liddell Hart Memoirs
Modern Economic Growth
The Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries
The theme is the search for an optimum method to transfer technology. Topics include: historical cases of transfer; economic theory as applied to the technological gap concept; a reexamination of the seminal work of Schumpeter and continental scholars, comparatively unknown in the U.S.; analysis of socio-economic variables with particular reference to the possibility of utilizing simulation technique; and possible strategies for improved methods …
Symposium on Technology as a Social Process in Africa
This symposium was sponsored jointly by the Society for the History of Technology (S.H.O.T.) and by the anthropology section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (A.A.A.S.), arising from their annual meetings in Dallas, Texas, in December 1968. The session was clearly exploratory, in that the participants recognised the need for a systematic and integrative study of technology in African history, especially of its importance…
The Civilizational Process by Darcy Ribeiro (review)
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 667 in the National Museum of Cagliari in Sardinia. In view of their stylis tically similar features, she enquires whether there may have been a glassmaking center in Sardinia in Roman times. Dr. Clasina Isings, of Utrecht University, expounds learnedly on the contents of two sar cophagi, excavated at Stein in Dutch Limburg in 1925, which included a fine ovoid flask with snake thread decoration in blue and wh…
The Civilizational Process
Technology and the Economic Development of the Tropical African Frontier
Yankee Traders, Old Coasters & African Middlemen
Yankee Traders, Old Coasters & African Middlemen: A History of American Legitimate Trade with West Africa in the Nineteenth Century. By George E. Brooks, Jr. (Boston: Boston University Press, 1970. xiv + 370 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.) Thomas R. De Gregori Thomas R. De Gregori University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 58, …
Industrialization and Development
Technology and the Economic Development of the Tropical African Frontier
The Chicago Meeting, December 26-30, 1970
Organizational Notes THE CHICAGO MEETING, DECEMBER 26-30, 1910 PROGRAM NOTES Thirteen was not an unlucky number for SHOT. The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology was the largest and most successful in its history. Held December 26-30, 1970, at the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, the meeting was notable for the variety of its stimulating papers which evoked heated discussions from enthusiastic audiences. Pr…
The Ghanaian Factory Worker
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 517 American automobile assembly workers could pick up some good diagnostic hints from this British study. Robert H. Guest* The Ghanaian Factory Worker: Industrial Man in Africa. By Margaret Peil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. ix+254. $18.50. The Political Economy of Colonialism in Ghana: A Collection of Documents and Statistics, 1900-1960. Edited with an introduction by G. B. Kay. Cambridge:…
Civilizations of Black Africa
The Ghanaian Factory Worker
Applied Measures for Promoting Technological Growth
An Economic History of West Africa
The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression
An Economic History of Nigeria, 1860-1960
Tradition, Change, and Modernity. S. N. Eisenstadt
Queries on Economic Rationality
An Introduction to Benin Art and Technology
West African Food in the Middle Ages
Economic Change in Pre-Colonial Africa
Science and Ceremony
Other| September 01 1977 Science and Ceremony: The Institutional Economics of C. E. Ayres William Breit and William Patton Culbertson, Jr. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1976, Pp. xvii + 210. $14.95. Thomas R. De Gregori Thomas R. De Gregori Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (3): 447–448. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-9-3-447 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissi…
The Political Economy of Food and Energy
(1978). The Political Economy of Food and Energy. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 728-730.
Political science (19 works) · Economics (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · History (13 works) · African history and culture studies (11 works) · Business (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works)