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Ahmed S.
Rahman Associate
Professor Department of
Economics U.S. Naval
Academy 589 McNair
Road Annapolis, MD
21402 rahman@usna.edu For
Students: Spring 2013 Courses
Capstone Course
Fall
2012 Courses Intermediate Macroeconomics Advanced Macroeconomics
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Welcome. I am an associate professor
of economics at the United States Naval Academy. I'm interested in
some of the big questions of economics - long run growth and development,
determinants of the wealth of nations, the economics of military
history... stuff like that.
Recent
Papers: "Unified"
Theories of Growth Luddites and the Demographic Transition - (with Kevin H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor), NBER working paper # 14484, second round of revisions submitted. A Simple Theory on the Effects of Industrialization, forthcoming, Macroeconomic Dynamics Trade, Technology and the Great
Divergence - (with Kevin
H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor), working draft Economic and
Naval History Human Capital and Technological Transition -
Insights from the U.S. Navy - (with Darrell J.
Glaser), Journal of Economic History Naval Engineering and Labor Specialization during the Industrial Revolution (with Darrell J. Glaser), revisions requested Technical
Human Capital and Job Mobility in an Era of Rapid Technological Innovation
(with Darrell J. Glaser),
under review Ex Trident Mercatus - Sea-power and Trade during the Age of
Globalization (with
Darrell J. Glaser), working draft Technology-Skill Complementarities in the Royal
Navy prior to the
Great War (with Darrell
J. Glaser), working draft Technology, Changes in Skill Structure and
Interactions in Labor Demand: Evidence from Five Naval Powers (with Ryan R. Brady and Darrell J. Glaser), working
draft Technology
and Development The Road Not Taken - What
Is The "Appropriate" Path to Development When Growth Is Unbalanced, forthcoming,
Macroeconomic Dynamics Nation Building and Economic Growth (with Ellyn Creasey and Katherine A. Smith), American Economic Review P&P Does Nation
Building Spur Economic Growth? (with Ellyn Creasey and Katherine A. Smith), revisions
requested Product Differentiation and Consumer Surplus in the Microfinance Industry (with Dan W. Chan, Darrell J. Glaser and Katherine A. Smith), revisions requested How Global Knowledge
Affected Inequality Around the World - An Industry-Level Study - USNA Economics Department Working Paper # 18, working
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