Email:Richard.Lobdell@umanitoba.ca Phone: (Please email) Fax: (204) 474-7620 Mailing Address: Department of Economics
University of Manitoba
116 St. Paul's College
70 Dysart Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2M6
Canada
Fields of Specialization
Economic History
Development Economics
Selected Publications
Books
Evelyn L. Forget and Richard A. Lobdell (eds.), The Peasant in Economic Thought: `A Perfect Republic'. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1995).
Richard A. Lobdell, Economic Structure and Demographic Performance in Jamaica, 1891-1935. (New York: Garland Press, 1987).
Chapters in Books
Henry Rempel and Richard Lobdell, “The Role of Urban to Rural Remittances in Rural Development”, in John Connell and Richard P.C. Brown (eds.), Migration and Remittances (London: Edward Elgar, 2015). This is a reprint of an article first published in the Journal of Development Studies, 14(3), 1978.
Richard A. Lobdell, "Patterns of Investment and Sources of Credit in the British West Indian Sugar Industry, 1838-1897", in B.W. Higman and Kathleen E.A. Monteith (eds), West Indian Business History: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (Mona: University of the West Indies Press, 2010).
Richard A. Lobdell, "Hazel Kyrk (1886-1957)"; "Jessica Blanche Peixotto (1864-1941); "Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter (1898-1953)”; "Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury (1876-1933)" in Robert W. Diamond, Mary Ann Diamond, and Evelyn L. Forget (eds.), Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists. (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2000).
Richard A. Lobdell, "`Repression is not a policy': Sydney Olivier on the West Indies and Africa", in Roderick McDonald (ed.), West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan. (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 1996).
Richard A. Lobdell, "British Officials and the West Indian Peasantry, 1842-1938", in Malcolm Cross and Gad Heuman (eds.), Labour in the Caribbean: From Emancipation to Independence. (London: Macmillan, 1988).