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PhD, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1973 My research and teaching interest centers on the evolution of the current global economic order from the 16th century. This interest has developed over time from my study of the global impact of the Atlantic slave economy. I started with the British economy, and subsequently extended my studies to Africa and the Americas. To satisfactorily analyze the impact of the evolving world economy on the units or sub-regions making up the system, I have had to concern myself with the internal socio-political processes within the said sub-regions: the development of market institutions; the evolution of economic, social and political structures; the development of science and technology, etc. My analytical task has been to show how the internal and external factors operated and interacted to shape the structures within the units, at one point, and at another point, the character of the international economy. These research interests are clearly reflected in the undergraduate and graduate courses I have taught since 1972. For seven years I taught at the undergraduate level a course on comparative industrialization, which included industrialization in Britain, France, Germany, U.S.A., the Soviet Union, and Japan. At the postgraduate level, I taught for several years a course on the evolution of the contemporary world economic order from the 16th century. I am currently teaching the latter course to a mixed class of seniors and graduate students. I have also taught, and continue to teach, courses on Latin America and the Caribbean, and West African Economic history