Eiman O Zein-Elabdin Professor of Economics

Economic Developlement, Postcolonial Thought, Political Economy of Africa, Gender and Economics, Culture and Economics, Institutional Economics

Select Publications

Economics, Culture and Development, London: Routledge (Frontiers of Political Economy), 2016

“Postcoloniality and Development: Development as a Colonial Discourse,” in Dimensions of African Development: Theory and Practice, Lansana Keita (ed.), Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2011.

“Economics, Postcolonial Theory, and the Problem of Culture: Institutional Analysis and Hybridity,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33 (6): 1153-1167, November, 2009.

Postcolonialism Meets Economics (co-edited with S. Charusheela), London: Routledge (Economics as Social Theory series), 2004.

“The Difficulty of a Feminist Economics,” in Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics, Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper (eds.), Routledge, 2003. (Reprinted in Feminist Economics, Lourdes Beneria, Ann Mari May, and Diana Strassmann (eds.), Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009).

• Political Economy of Africa (ECO281)

• Economic Development (ECO335)

• Women, Culture, and Development (ECO282)

• Postcolonial Perspectives on Development (ECO381)

• Introduction to Economic Perspectives (ECO103)

• Value and Distribution (ECO203)

• Africa: the Idea/the Place (Connections 2 Course)

• African Americans in the US Economy

• Inequality, Power, and Social Justice