Eiman O Zein-ElabdinSigmund M. and Mary B. Hyman Professor of Economics

Postcolonial Thought, Economic Development, Political Economy of Africa, Culture and Economics, Women/Gender and Economics, Institutional Economics

Select Publications

“Women’s Bodies: Toward a Better Understanding of the Political Economy of Migration from Africa to Europe through the Mediterranean,” Feminist Economics (Forthcoming).

“Is it Possible to Decolonize Economics?” Developing Economics Blog Series, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven and Carolina Alves (eds.), July 15, 2024. (Online)

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