Craig Richardson* ([email protected]) is an associate professor of economics at Salem College (www.salem.edu) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he has been since 1991. Richardson graduated from Kenyon College (Ohio) with honors in economics, and then worked for the Urban Institute and the World Bank; the latter organization was where his interest in Zimbabwe began. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991. Currently, in addition to teaching economics, Richardson serves as a consultant for the Peru-based Institute for Liberty and Democracy, headed by Hernando de Soto, and was a visiting fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research (Great Barrington, MA) in the summers of 2005 and 2006.
Richardson is the author of The Collapse of Zimbabwe in the Wake of the 2000–2003 Land Reforms (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), and he has written numerous articles about Zimbabwe. His work on this subject has appeared in or been referenced by numerous media outlets, both domestic and international, including a May cover story in the South African-based Financial Mail. Other ongoing research interests include using global satellite photos as a tool for revealing economic growth and collapse; property rights and their role in economic development; and the role of trust in economic systems.