CURRICULUM VITAE Name Address Leonard Maurice DUDLEY 299 Markham Road, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3P 3A2 Telephone (514) 731-9039 Fax: (514) 343-7221 E-mail leonard.dudley@umontreal.ca Date of birth September 30, 1943 Place of birth Citizenship Languages spoken Vancouver, Canada Canadian English, French, Spanish, German, some Arabic Education Awards Ph.D. Yale University, 1970. Thesis title: "Learning as an Explanation of Productivity Change." Director: Richard R. Nelson. B.A. (honors) University of Toronto, 1966. Major in political science and economics. Senior Matriculation, 1962, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto. Riddell Award for the best article on Ontario history, Ontario Historical Society, May 1996. Harold A. Innis lecturer, Canadian Economics Association, June 1995. Reginald Adams Gold Medal in Political Science and Economics, University of Toronto, 1966. Teaching experience Positions held: Since June 2008, Honorary professor and lecturer, Economics Department, Université de Montréal (June 1981, appointed full professor; June 1975, associate professor; June 1970, assistant professor) Current course: Economic history of the West (undergraduate)
Previous courses taught: International trade (graduate) Macroeconomics (graduate) Economic development (undergraduate) 2 Positions as guest researcher or guest professor Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany, March-April, 2010. Economics Department, Université de Reims, France, avril 2007. École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, Guer, France, 2002-2006. Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany, August 2001- July 2002. Dresden University of Technology, Germany, June 1995 and September 1993-January 1994. University of Freiburg, Germany, January-July, 1994. Institut d études politiques, Paris, May 1990 and May 1992. University of Bamberg, Germany, September-December, 1988. International Labour Organisation, Regional Employment Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile, May 1975 - May 1976 Planning Ministry, Bogota, Colombie, May-August, 1972. Planning Ministry, Nouakchott, Mauritania, June-August, 1971. Publications Books: (2017) The Singularity of Western Innovation: The Language Nexus, Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, 2017. (2012) Mothers of Innovation: How Expanding Social Networks Gave Birth to the Industrial Revolution, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (2008) Information Revolutions in the History of the West, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. (1991) The Word and the Sword: How Techniques of Information and Violence Have Shaped Our World, Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass.
3 (1978) The Supply of Canadian Foreign Aid: Explanation and Evaluation, Economic Council of Canada, Ottawa (with Claude Montmarquette). Chapters in collective works: (2013) A Spatial Model of State Coercion: Comments on papers by John Wallis and Stergios Skaperdas, in Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Stanley Winer, eds., Coercion and Social Welfare in Contemporary Public Finance (forthcoming). (2007) Language as Platform : A Theory of Subsidiarity and the Nation State, dans Democracy, Freedom and Coercion : A Law and Economics Approach, sous la direction d'alain Marciano et de Jean-Michel Josselin, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, R-U, 155-170. (2005) "Explaining the Great Divergence: Medium and Message on the Eurasian Land Mass, 1700-1850," dans Law and the State: A Political Economy Approach, sous la direction d'alain Marciano et de Jean-Michel Josselin, Edward Elgar, Londres, 100-120. (1996) "Comme un canari en cage: leçons à tirer de l effondrement de la RDA," in Serge Coulombe and Gilles Paquet, eds., La réinvention des institutions et le rôle de l État, Association des économistes québécois, Montréal. (1996) "Culture and Efficiency: Economic Effects of Religion, Nationalism and Ideology," in Jose Casas Pardo and Friedrich Schneider, eds., Current Trends in Public Choice Theory, Edward Elgar, London, 69-90 (with U. Blum). (1995) "On the Nature of Deep Structural Adjustments," comments on a paper by R. Lipsey and C. Bekar, in Thomas J. Courchene, ed., Technology, Information and Public Policy, Bell Canada Papers in Public Policy, Kingston, Ont., 77-83. (1991) "Constitutions as the outcome of imperfect spatial competition", in Albert Breton, ed., The Competitive State, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 185-203. (1983) "The Effects of Learning on Employment and Labor Productivity in the Colombian Metal Products Sector", in Albert Berry, ed., Essays on Industrialization in Colombia, Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 143-170. (1979) "Frontières nationales et taille du gouvernement: le choix de paramètres d'intervention gouvernementale", in Claude Montmarquette, ed. Economie du Québec et choix politiques, Les presses de l'université du Québec, Montréal, 3-36 (with Claude Montmarquette). (1978) "Labor Force Underutilization in Latin America: Long-term Perspectives", in Victor E. Tokman, Regional Employment Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean, ed., Employment in Latin America, Praeger, New York, 86-99 (with Norberto García).
4 Articles: (2017) Language Standardization and the Industrial Revolution, Oxford Economic Papers, 69:4 (October 2017) 1138 1161. (2008) "Religion, Politics and Luck: Explaining the Rise of Sustained Innovation", Homo Oeconomicus, 25:1 (2008), 55-90. (2007) "The Great Realignment: How Factor-Biased Innovation Reshaped Comparative Advantage in the US and Japan, 1970-1992", Japan and the World Economy, 19, 112-132, with Johannes Moenius. (2004) "Arms and the Man: World War I and the Rise of the Welfare State," Kyklos 57:4, 475-504, with Ulrich Witt. (2003) "Standardized Latin and Medieval Economic Growth," European Review of Economic History, 7(2), 213-238, with Ulrich Blum. (2001) "Religion and Economic Growth: Was Weber Right?" Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 11:2, 207-230, with Ulrich Blum. (2000) Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Rise and Decline of the East German Economy, 1949-1988, Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 220: 4 (July), 438-452, with Ulrich Blum. (2000) The Rationality of Revolution, Economics of Governance, 1:1, 77-103. (1999) The Two Germanies: Information Technology and Economic Divergence, 1949-1989", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 155:4, 710-737, with Ulrich Blum. (1999) Le secteur public: moteur de croissance ou obstruction à l industrie? Actualité économique, 75, 357-378, with Claude Montmarquette. (1999) Communications and Economic Growth, European Economic Review, 43:3, pp. 595-619. (1998) Fast Convergence: Institutions and Economic Growth in the New East Germany, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften/Review of Economics, 49:2, 124-143 (with Ulrich Blum). (1995) "Space, Time, Number: Harold Innis as Evolutionary Theorist, Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 28, pp. 754-769.
5 (1992) "Is Government Spending Determined by Voter Choice or Fiscal Capacity?" Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 74, 522-529 (with Claude Montmarquette). (1992) "Punishment, Reward and the Fortunes of States," Public Choice, vol. 74, 293-315. (1991) "A Spatial Model of the State," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 147 (June), 312-336 (with Ulrich Blum). (1990) "Structural Change in Interdependent Bureaucracies: Was Rome's Failure Economic or Military?" Explorations in Economic History, 27, 232-248. (1989) "A Spatial Approach to Structural Change: The Making of the French Hexagon", Journal of Economic History, 49 (September), 657-676 (with Ulrich Blum). (1989) "Information as a Substitute for Inventories", European Economic Review, 33, 67-88 (with Pierre Lasserre). (1988) "A Disequilibrium Model of Public Spending", Economics Letters, 26, 165-168 (with Claude Montmarquette). (1987) "Bureaucratic Corruption as a Constraint on Voter Choice", Public Choice, 55, 127-160 (with Claude Montmarquette). (1987) "Explaining Forecasting Bias: The Case of Real Exchange Rates", Applied Economics, 19, 1249-1260. (1986) "Implicit Labor Contracts and Public Choice: A General Equilibrium Approach", Journal of Law and Economics, 29 (April) 61-82. (1984) "The Effects of Non-Clearing Labor Markets on the Demand for Public Spending", Economic Inquiry, 22 (April), 151-170 (with Claude Montmarquette). (1983) "A Nonlinear Model of Import Demand under Price Uncertainty and Adjustment Costs", Canadian Journal of Economics, 16 (November), 625-640. (1983) "Les anticipations et la réponse des importations aux variations dans les prix et les taux de change", Revue économique, 34 (November), 1145-1163 (with Carole Trépanier). (1981) "The Demand for Military Expenditures: An International Comparison", Public Choice, 37, 5-31 (with Claude Montmarquette). (1979) "Foreign Aid and the Theory of Alliances", Review of Economics and Statistics, 61 (November), 564-571. (1977) "Pauvreté et progrès technique en Amérique latine: Une vue à long terme", Actualité économique, (April-June), 318-339 (with Norberto García).
6 (1977) "Tecnología, subempleo y pobreza en América Latina: perfiles a largo plaza", El trimestre económico (with Norberto Garcia). (1976) "A Model of the Supply of Bilateral Foreign Aid", American Economic Review. 66 (March), 132-142 (with Claude Montmarquette). (1975) "The Side-Effects of Foreign Aid: The Case of PL 480 Wheat in Colombia", Economic Development and Cultural Change, 23 (January), 325-336 (with Roger Sandilands). (1974) "Learning and the Interregional Transfer of Technology", Southern Economic Journal, (April) 563-570. (1973) "Sur l'optimalité de la zone monétaire canadienne", L'actualité économique, (January- March) 7-18. (1972) "Learning and Productivity Change in Metal Products", American Economic Review, 62 (September) 662-669. (1969) "Reply to Comment by Douglas Bohi", Review of Economics and Statistics. 51 (November), 474-475. (1968) "The Vietnam War and the United States Balance of Payments", Review of Economics and Statistics. 50 (November), 437-442 (with Peter Passell).