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CURRICULUM VITAE
January 5, 2015
NAME: ARCHIBALD R.M. RITTER
DEPARTMENT: Department of Economics and the
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs,
Loeb Building, Room B-802,
Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, K1S5B6, Ontario,
Canada
COMMUNICATIONS: TELEPHONE: (613) 520-2600 ext.: 6668;
FAX: (613) 520-3906;
E-Mail:
BLOG: http://thecubaneconomy.com/
PERSONAL DATA: Date of Birth: 25 October 1941
Citizenship: Canada
Married, five children
Address: 65 Ruskin Street, Ottawa, K1Y4A8, Canada
Tel: (613) 728-1609
A. EDUCATION:
High School Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute, Kingston, Canada,1956-1960
BA Economics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 1960-1962; 1963-1964 and University of St. Andrew's, St. Andrew's, Scotland, 1962-1963
MA Economics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 1965
PhD Economics; (Minor: Latin American Studies,) University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA, 1972
B. EMPLOYMENT:
Academic Appointment:
1969 – 2008: Norman Paterson Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and Department of Economics (Joint Appointment), Carleton University,
· Assistant Professor, 1969-1975
· Associate Professor, 1975-1992
· Professor, 1992-2008
· Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, 2008 -2014
Other Employment:
1985 - 1988 Senior Economist, Long-Range Planning Unit, Ministry of Planning and National Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (half time)
1979 - 1980 Senior Economist (Executive Interchange), Economic Policy and Analysis Sector, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Government of Canada
January-July, 1979 Research Associate, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
1973 - 1974 Instituto Latinoamericano para Planificación Económico y Social, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile
1965-1968 Teaching Assistant and Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, Austin Texas USA
1965-1966 Teaching Assistant, Economics Department, University of Western Ontario, London Canada
May-July 1965 Labourer, Smith Brothers Construction, Kingston, Canada
May-July 1962 Labourer, Ball Brothers Construction, Kingston, Canada
1960-1962 Counsellor, Swimming Instructor and Out-Tripping Instructor, Camp Ponacka, Baptiste Lake, Ontario (summers)
December 1960 Temporary Worker, Canada Post Office, Kingston Canada
Periodically 1960-61 Temporary Worker, Pickwick Book Shop, Kingston Canada
June 1958 Hemlock Park Dairy, Summer Employment, Kingston Canada
1958-1959 Counsellor and Swimming Instructor, RKY Camp, Parham Ontario (summer)
Administrative Positions:
Chair, Department of Economics, Carleton University, July 2001 – June 2004
Co-ordinator, Carleton University Economics M.A. Program, at the University of Havana, Havana, Cuba 1994-2001
Senate, Carleton University, 2001-2004
Chair, Senate Financial Review Committee, Carleton University, 2002-2003; 2003-2004
Senate Executive Committee, Carleton University, 2003-2004
Associate Director (Acting), Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University 1981-1982
Voluntary Activities, 2008-2014:
Institutional Manager, Academics Without Borders Canada, for the University of Liberia, January 2012-2013;
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics University of Liberia, July 2011, Instructor for course “African Economic Development” arranged through Academics Without Borders Canada;
Founding Member of the Board of Directors, Academics Without Borders Canada, 2006-2009;
Treasurer, Academics Without Borders Canada, September 2008 - December 2009;
Interim Director, Cuba Program, Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), Ottawa Canada, January 1 to December 31, 2009;
Member, Board of Directors, Society for International Development, Ottawa-Gatineau Chapter, 2008 - 2011
“Project Adviser”, Brookings Project on U.S. Policy Toward a Cuba in Transition, 2008-2010, Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., [Publication: CUBA: A New Policy of Critical and Constructive Engagement]
Research BLOG:
The Cuban Economy / La Economia Cubana
http://thecubaneconomy.com/ (English language)
http://es.thecubaneconomy.com/ (Spanish language)
HONOUR:
CALACS Distinguished Fellow Award at the Annual Congress of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS), Carleton University, Ottawa, March 3-5, 2013
C. PUBLICATIONS:
REFEREED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
The Economic Development of Revolutionary Cuba: Strategy and Performance, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974, pp. 1-372
Excerpts published in Chinese translation as "Cuba's Development Policy," Journal of the Institute for Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, 1977
Development Strategy and Structural Adjustment in Chile: From the Unidad Popular to the Concertación, 1970-1992, Ottawa: North-South Institute, 1992
Entrepreneurial Cuba: the Changing Policy Landscape, (co-author Ted A. Henken), Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder Colorado, 2015, pp. 1-373
Edited Books:
A. Ritter and D. Pollock (editors), Latin American Prospects for the 1970s: What Kinds of Revolutions? New York: Praeger 1973, pp. 1-335
A. Ritter and D. Pollock (editors), Latin American Prospects for the 1980s: Equity, Democratization and Development, New York: Praeger, 1983, pp. 1-330
A. Ritter, M. Cameron and D. Pollock (editors), Latin America to the Year 2000: Reactivating Growth, Improving Equity, Sustaining Democracy, New York: Praeger, 1992 , pp. 1-257
A. Ritter and J. Kirk (editors), Cuba in the International System: Integration and Normalization, London: Macmillan, 1995, pp. 1-294
Archibald R. M. Ritter (editor), The Cuban Economy, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004, pp. 1-248
Articles in Refereed Journals:
"Growth Strategy and Economic Performance in Revolutionary Cuba: Past, Present and Prospective," Social and Economic Studies (Kingston, Jamaica), Volume 21, 3, September 1972, pp. 313-337
Republished in part as "Cuba's Development Policy," Journal of the Institute for Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Beijing, China, 1977 (pp. 29-34). (In Chinese Translation)
Republished as “Cuba cerca una strategia per lo sviluppo,” Mercurio: Sintesti del pensiero economico e sociale contemporaneo, Rome Italy, XVI:11, November 1973
"Estrategia por el movilización de los recursos humanos en Cuba Revolucionaria," Cuadernos de Economia, 11, 32: January 1974. pp. 75-109
"The Transferability of the Socio-Economic Development Models of Revolutionary Cuba," Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, Vol. 7; No. 1, July 1977, pp. 183-204
"The Cuban Revolution: A New Orientation" Current History, February 1978, pp. 53-56 and 83-87.
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"Los Organos del Poder Popular and Participatory Democracy in Cuba: A Preliminary Analysis" Social and Economic Studies, Volume 29, Nos. 2 and 3, June/September, 1980, pp. 193-210
"Stabilizing the International Copper Market: The Viability and Impacts of Alternate Market Management Arrangements," Canadian Journal of Development Studies, May 1981 (with H. Labib), pp. 70-115
"The Labour Force, Employment and Unemployment in Kenya," Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 2, 1987, pp. 203-226
"El Problema de la deuda de Cuba en monedas convertibles," Revista de la CEPAL No 36, Diciembre 1988, Naciones Unidas, Comisión Economica para America Latina y el Caribe, Santiago de Chile, pp. 115-140
An English-language version was published in the English version of the same Journal, CEPAL Review, No.36, December 1988, pp. 117-140
"Cuba's Convertible Currency Debt Problem, 1980-1988,” North-South, The Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 1988, Vol. XIII, No. 25, pp. 107-136
"The Cuban Economy in the 1990s: External Challenges and Policy Imperatives", Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Volume 32, Number 3; Fall 1990, pp. 117-149
Reprinted in Horowitz, Irving L., Cuban Communism, 1959-1995, New Brunswick New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1996, pp.337-364
"Development Strategy and Structural Adjustment in Chile, 1973-1990," Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Volume 15, No. 30, 1990, pp137-158
"Perspectivas para el cambio económico y politico en Cuba durante los noventa," Sintesis: Revista Documental de Ciencias Sociales Iberoamericanas, No. 15, Septiembre-Noviembre, 1991, Madrid, pp.375-394
"Exploring Cuba's Alternate Economic Futures," Cuban Studies/ Estudios Cubanos, Volume 28, 1993, pp.3-32
"Cuba en los Anos Noventa: Reorientación Económica y Reintegración Internacional" Estudios Internacionales, Santiago, Chile, Julio-Septiembre 1993, 454-479
"El problema de las compensaciones: quien compensa a quien, por que y como?" Estudios Internacionales, Santiago, Chile, Julio-Septiembre / Octubre-Diciembre, 1994, pp. 496-512
"The Dual Currency Bifurcation of the Cuban Economy in the 1990s: Causes, Consequences and Cures," CEPAL Review, United Nations: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago Chile, No. 57, December, 1995, pp. 113-132
A Spanish-language version was published in the Spanish edition of the same journal, Revista de la CEPAL, No. 57, Diciembre, 1995, pp.113-132
"Entrepreneurship, Micro-Enterprise and Public Policy in Cuba in the 1990s: Promotion, Containment or Asphyxiation?" Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 40:2, Summer 1998, pp. 673-94
“The Tax Regime for Micro-Enterprise in Cuba,” CEPAL Review, United Nations: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, August 2000, pp. 139-156
A Spanish language version was published in the Spanish edition of the same journal, Revista de La CEPAL, August, 2000, pp145-162
“Cuba: From “Dollarization” to “Euroization” or Peso-Re-Consolidation” Latin American Politics and Society, Summer 2002, pp. 99-124
“Canada’s Economic Relations with Cuba, 1990 to 2010 and Beyond,” Canadian Foreign Policy, SPECIAL SECTION – The Politics of Canada-Cuba Relations: Emerging Possibilities and Diverse Challenges, Ottawa Canada, Volume 16, Issue 1 (Spring 2010)
Estados Unidos-Cuba: potenciales implicaciones económicas de la normalización, in Revista TEMAS, Special Issue: Cuba-Estados Unidos: tan lejos, tan cerca, Editor: Rafael Hernandez Havana Cuba, and Special Editor, Jorge Dominguez, Harvard Unuiversity, Boston Massachusetts, número 62-63 abril-septiembre de 2010, Web Address: http://www.temas.cult.cu/index.php
Review Articles:
“Shifting Realities in ‘Special Period’ Cuba”, Latin American Research Review, Volume 45 No. 3, 2010, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2010
“Revolution in the Revolution: Recent Developments in the Cuban Economy”, Latin American Research Review, vol. 49, no. 3, 2014, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh
Guest Editor of Journal:
Estudios Internacionales: Cuba en el Sistema Internacional: Normalización y Integración, Numero Especial, Julio-Septiembre / Octubre-Diciembre, 1994, XXVII, No.107-108, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago Chile, with co-editor Francisco Leon, pp. 275-617
Chapters Published in Books:
"The Political Economy of Revolutionary Socialism in Cuba," in J. Chant, G. Paquet, K. Acheson and P. Copes (editors), Canadian Perspectives in Economics, Toronto: Collier-Macmillan, 1972, pp. 1-12
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"Revolution in Latin America: An Overview", in A. Ritter and D. Pollock (editors), Latin American Prospects for the 1970s: What Kinds of Revolutions, New York: Praeger, 1973, pp. 3-29
"Institutional Strategy and Economic Performance in Revolutionary Cuba", Ibid. pp. 230-259
"The Transferability of the Socio-Economic Development Models of Revolutionary Cuba," in C. Mesa-Lago (editor), The Role of Cuba in World Affairs, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978, pp. 313-331
"The Authenticity of Participatory Democracy in Cuba in A. Ritter and D. Pollock (editors), Latin American Prospects for the 1980s: Equity, Democratization and Development, New York: Praeger 1983, pp. 182-213
"Policy-Making in the Mineral Sector: Global, Continental and Regional Dimensions," in J. Pammett and B. Tomlin (editors), The Integration Question: Political Economy and Public Policy in Canada and North America, Toronto: Addison Wesley, 1984; pp. 205-223
"The Feasibility of Establishing Jointly-Owned Regional Minerals Enterprises (JRMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa", in E. Lazlo (editor), Arab and African Regional Cooperation for Development, Dublin: Tycooly International, 1984, pp. 52-88
"The Organs of People's Power and the Communist Party: The Nature of Cuban Democracy," in S. Halebsky and J. Kirk (editors), Cuba: Twenty-five Years of Revolution, 1959-1984, New York: Praeger, 1985, pp. 270-290
"The International Debt Crisis: Towards Resolution", with David H. Pollock, in Maureen Appel Molot and Brian W. Tomlin (editors) Canada Among Nations, 1985: The Conservative Agenda, James Lorimer and Company, Toronto, 1986, pp. 131-160
"The Debt Crisis: Contained or Postponed?" (With D.H. Pollock), in Canada and Common Security: The Assertion of Sanity, a collection by members of the Group of 78 and Others, Editor: Penny Sanger, Ottawa: The Group of 78, 1987, pp. 53-56
"Cuba in the 1990s: Economic Reorientation and International Reintegration," in J. Kirk and S. Halebsky (editors). Cuba's Struggle for Development: Dilemmas and Strategies, Boulder Colorado: Westview Press, 1992
"Prospects for Economic and Political Change in Cuba in the 1990s" in A. Ritter et. al., Latin America to the Year 2000: Reactivating Growth, Improving Equity, Sustaining Democracy, New York: Praeger, 1992, pp. 235-252
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“Stratégie de dévelopement et ajustement structurel au Chili, 1973-1900,” in J. del Pozo (editeur) Le Chili de 1970 a 1980: De L’Unité populaire à l’aprés-Pinochet, Montreal: VLB Editeur, 1994, pp127-168
"Cuba's Economic Strategy and Alternate Futures," in J. Perez-Lopez (editor), Cuba at a Crossroads, Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1994, pp. 67-93
"Financial Aspects of Normalizing Cuba's International Relations: The Debt and Compensation Issues," in Cuban Research Institute, Transition in Cuba: New Challenges for U.S. Policy, Miami: Florida International University, 1993
"The Compensation Issue in U.S.-Cuban Normalization: Who Compensates Whom, Why and How?" in A. Ritter and J. Kirk (Editors), Cuba in the International System: Normalization and Integration, London: MacMillan, 1995, pp259-277.
"Introduction" with J. Kirk, in A. Ritter and J. Kirk (Editors), Cuba in the International System: Normalization and Integration, London: MacMillan, 1995, pp. 1-8
"Implications for Reform Processes in Cuba," in FOCAL, "Helms-Burton and International Business: Legal and Commercial Implications, Ottawa: Focal, 1996
"The Cuban Economy in the mid-1990s: Structural/Monetary Pathology and Public Policy," in M. A. Centeno and M. Font (Editors) Toward a New Cuba: Legacies of a Revolution, Boulder CO: L. Rienner, forthcoming 1997, pp151-170
"Internal Obstacles to Cuba's Reinsertion in the Latin American Economy," in F.Leon and Mauricio Font (Editors,) Integración Económica y Democratización: America Latina y Cuba, Santiago Chile, 1998, pp 87-116
“Cuba’s Economic Reform Process, 1998: Paralysis and Stagnation,” in C. Warren (Editor) Cuba Today: Events Taking Place in Cuba and Ensuing Issues for Canadian Policy, Ottawa: FOCAL, 1999
“Canada: From ‘Fly In - Fly Out’ to Mining Metropolis,” in G. McMahon and F. Remi, Large Mine and Community: Socioeconomic and Environmental Effects of Mining in Latin America, Canada and Spain, Washington DC: The World Bank and Ottawa: IDRC, Third Quarter, 2001, pp.223-262
“La Aglomeración Minera en Canadá: Estructura, Evolución y Funccionamiento,” in Rudolf M. Buitelaar, Extraer Minerales y Producir Desarollo: Potendcialidades y Limitaciones de Aglomeraciones en Torno a la Mineria en América Latina, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago Chile, and IDRC, Noviembre de 2001, pp. 17-46
“La unificación de los sistemas monetarios duales y los sistemas de tasa de cambio en Cuba,” in Mauricio de Miranda, Editor, Cuba: reestructuración económica y desarrollo en la era de globalización, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia: Centro Editorial Javeriana, 2003, pp. 117-148
"Cuba: Dollarizarion and "Dedollarization," in Dominick Salvatore, James W. Dean and Thomas D. Willett, The Dollarization Debate, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, Chapter 24, pp. 425 – 448, with Nicholas Rowe.
“An Overview of Cuba’s Economy in the 2000s: Recuperation and/or Relapse,” in Archibald R. M. Ritter (Editor) The Cuban Economy, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004, pp. 1-24
“Economic Illegalities and the Underground Economy in Cuba,” Underground Economy: A Constant Companion, Icfai University Press, Ahmedabad, India, 2008; (reprinted from Background Briefing, RFC-06-01, FOCAL, Ottawa Canada, March 2006)
“Canadian-Cuban Economic Relations: Past, Present and Prospective”, in Robert Wright and Lana Wylie (Editors) The Long Dance: Cuba and Canada in the Castro Era, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009