Areas of Interest:

• Macroeconomics & Monetary Economics
• Political Economy of the Middle East
• Globalization, Trade, and Development

Education:

• Ph.D. in Economics & Social Science Consortium, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2006
• M.A. in Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2001
• B.S. in Economics, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Tunis, Tunisia, 1999

Experience:

• President, Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, 2014-present
• Associate Professor of Economics, Denison University, 2014-present
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Denison University, 2008-2014
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Drew University, 2006-2008

Latest Publications:

• "The Cost of Unemployment and the Job Guarantee Alternative in Saudi Arabia," (with Mathew Forstater and Michael Kelsay), Policy Report # 101, Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity.
• “Do Prevailing Wage Laws Increase Total Construction Costs?” (with M. Kelsay), Review of Keynesian Economics, Vol. 2 (April 2014): 189-206.
• “The Fiscal Cliff Mythology and the Full Employment Alternative: An Affordable and Productive Plan,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 45 (September 2013): 305-314.
• “The End of Neoliberalism? An Institutional Analysis of the Arab Uprisings,” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 47 (June 2013): 533-543.