Research Interests
Economic development. Recent publications and current research focus on the effects of policy reform in Argentina and Ecuador, with a special emphasis on agriculture, nontraditional exports, and regional development.

Economic history of the United States. Recent publications and current research focus on the economics of the American Revolution, early twentieth century agriculture in the Southern United States, and the U.S. Army's choice of draft animal in the late nineteenth century.

Teaching Interests
Economic development with a focus on macroeconomic policy; U.S. Economic History
Professional Activities
Professor Sawers received his B.A. from Duke University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He has recently returned from a year's stay in Ecuador as a Fulbright Scholar. He lectured at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and the Universidad Central in Quito and conducted research on the recent dramatic growth in cut flower exports from Ecuador. He was also a Fulbright Lecturer in Tanzania in 1984 and 1985 at the University of Dar es Salaam. lecturing and research regional development policy. He spent several years directing the university's study abroad programs in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Madrid, Spain.

Recent Publications
The Other Argentina: National Development and the Interior, Westview Press, 1996.

Emerging Financial Markets in the Global Economy, (with Daniel Schydlowsky and David Nickerson), World Scientific Press, 2000.

"The Navigation Acts Revisited," Economic History Review, May 1992.

"The Navigation Acts,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, forthcoming.

"La agricultura y estancamiento económico en la Argentina en el siglo XX," (Agriculture and Economic Stagnation in 20th Century Argentina), Ciclos en la historia, la economía y la sociedad, Vol.4 (Universidad de Buenos Aires), 1994.

“Farm Size, Productivity, and Public Policy in the Argentine Interior,” Journal of Developing Areas, Fall 1998.

“Income Distribution and Environmental Degradation in the Argentine Interior,” Latin American Research Review, Spring 2000.

"Structural Reform and Industrial Promotion in Argentina," Journal of Latin American Studies, January 2001.

Works in Progress
"The Mule in Southern Agriculture Revisited"
"The U.S. Army as a Rational Economic Agent: A Comment"
"An Ecuadorian Success Story: The Role of Market and Policy in Flower Exports"