John Thomas Cummings
Biographic Data
| ID | 5522035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Thomas Cummings |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Cummings |
| SIGNATURE | CUMMINGS J T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
It may be tempting to think of the Middle East as uniformly Arab and Muslim, but as the following essay makes clear, the Middle East comprises a great cultural diversity of ethnic groups, which are further fragmented by differences of language and religion. About half the population of the Middle East is not Arab, including notably the Turks of Turkey, the Jews of Israel, the Persians of Iran, and the Kurds, who have no nation of their own but wh…
The Pressures of Oil
Land Reform in the Middle East
In any program of land reform, the method of determining compensation for the land to the former landlord and the cost to the peasant can be of great social and economic significance. This possibility arises from the fact that the officially determined value of redistributed land—whether it is below, equal to, or above the true market value—could have a considerable direct effect on the distribution of wealth among the various socioeconomic class…
Land Reform in the Middle East
The success or failure of land reform programs in the past has been, in general, evaluated on the basis of whether agricultural output increases or decreases following their adoption and the implementation of their principal provisions. Yet this approach ignores other factors, such as the effect of prices on output, making it likely that the influence of land reform is under- or over-estimated. In this paper, we suggest that it is possible to iso…
The Middle East and the United States
In explaining the determinants of economic growth, economists have attempted to distinguish the relative contributions made by various inputs. Theodore Schultz concluded that improvements in human capital have made larger contributions to growth than increases in physical capital. E. F. Denison was even more specific in his pioneering studies of changes in real national income in the United States from 1927 to 1967, estimating that 23 percent of …
The Future of Economic Integration within the Arab World
As our main guidelines in judging the probability of success in the formation of an economic union, we have used past trade patterns to indicate complementarities between the prospective partners, oil revenue projections to estimate the degree of future expansion of both demand and supply, and the principles of mutual self-interest and universal gain to argue for the likelihood of cooperation of all members. The essential participants in a Middle…
The Middle East and the United States
In explaining the determinants of economic growth, economists have attempted to distinguish the relative contributions made by various inputs. Theodore Schultz concluded that improvements in human capital have made larger contributions to growth than increases in physical capital. E. F. Denison was even more specific in his pioneering studies of changes in real national income in the United States from 1927 to 1967, estimating that 23 percent of …
The Future of Economic Integration within the Arab World
As our main guidelines in judging the probability of success in the formation of an economic union, we have used past trade patterns to indicate complementarities between the prospective partners, oil revenue projections to estimate the degree of future expansion of both demand and supply, and the principles of mutual self-interest and universal gain to argue for the likelihood of cooperation of all members. The essential participants in a Middle…
The Pressures of Oil
Land Reform in the Middle East
In any program of land reform, the method of determining compensation for the land to the former landlord and the cost to the peasant can be of great social and economic significance. This possibility arises from the fact that the officially determined value of redistributed land—whether it is below, equal to, or above the true market value—could have a considerable direct effect on the distribution of wealth among the various socioeconomic class…
Land Reform in the Middle East
The success or failure of land reform programs in the past has been, in general, evaluated on the basis of whether agricultural output increases or decreases following their adoption and the implementation of their principal provisions. Yet this approach ignores other factors, such as the effect of prices on output, making it likely that the influence of land reform is under- or over-estimated. In this paper, we suggest that it is possible to iso…
The Middle East and the United States
In explaining the determinants of economic growth, economists have attempted to distinguish the relative contributions made by various inputs. Theodore Schultz concluded that improvements in human capital have made larger contributions to growth than increases in physical capital. E. F. Denison was even more specific in his pioneering studies of changes in real national income in the United States from 1927 to 1967, estimating that 23 percent of …
The Future of Economic Integration within the Arab World
As our main guidelines in judging the probability of success in the formation of an economic union, we have used past trade patterns to indicate complementarities between the prospective partners, oil revenue projections to estimate the degree of future expansion of both demand and supply, and the principles of mutual self-interest and universal gain to argue for the likelihood of cooperation of all members. The essential participants in a Middle…
The Pressures of Oil
The Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
It may be tempting to think of the Middle East as uniformly Arab and Muslim, but as the following essay makes clear, the Middle East comprises a great cultural diversity of ethnic groups, which are further fragmented by differences of language and religion. About half the population of the Middle East is not Arab, including notably the Turks of Turkey, the Jews of Israel, the Persians of Iran, and the Kurds, who have no nation of their own but wh…
Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Middle East (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · History (2 works)