Alfredo Saad-Filho is a Brazilian

Marxian economist Marxian economics, or the Marxian school of economics, is a heterodox school of political economic thought. Its foundations can be traced back to Karl Marx's critique of political economy. However, unlike critics of political economy, Marxian e ...

Education and career

Alfredo Saad-Filho has degrees in Economics from the

University of Brasília The University of Brasília ( pt, Universidade de Brasília, UnB) is a federal public university in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. It was founded in 1960 and has since consistently been named among the top five Brazilian universities and the ...

(Brazil) and the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

(

SOAS SOAS University of London (; the School of Oriental and African Studies) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury are ...

). He is currently Professor of Political Economy and International Development at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

. He was Professor of Political Economy at SOAS University of London between 2000 and 2019, Chair of the SOAS Department of Development Studies (2006–10), Head of the SOAS Doctoral School (2018–19), and Chair of Department of International Development at King's College London (2021-22). Saad-Filho was Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (

UNCTAD The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is an intergovernmental organization within the United Nations Secretariat that promotes the interests of developing countries in world trade. It was established in 1964 by the ...

), in Geneva, in 2011-2012, and he has taught in universities and research institutions in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mozambique, Switzerland, and the UK. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Medal of the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, in 2014, and the SOAS Director’s Teaching Prize, in 2016. His research interests include the

political economy Political economy is the study of how Macroeconomics, economic systems (e.g. Marketplace, markets and Economy, national economies) and Politics, political systems (e.g. law, Institution, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied ph ...

of development,

industrial policy An industrial policy (IP) or industrial strategy of a country is its official strategic effort to encourage the development and growth of all or part of the economy, often focused on all or part of the manufacturing sector. The government takes m ...

neoliberalism Neoliberalism (also neo-liberalism) is a term used to signify the late 20th century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism after it fell into decline following the Second World War. A prominent fa ...

democracy Democracy (From grc, δημοκρατία, dēmokratía, ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation (" direct democracy"), or to choose gov ...

, alternative economic policies, Latin American political and economic development,

inflation In economics, inflation is an increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy. When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services; consequently, inflation corresponds to a reductio ...

and stabilisation, and the

labour theory of value The labor theory of value (LTV) is a theory of value that argues that the economic value of a good or service is determined by the total amount of " socially necessary labor" required to produce it. The LTV is usually associated with Marxian e ...

and its applications. Alfredo Saad Filho was a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner (2018-22), among many other roles. Saad-Filho is a member of the

Deutscher Memorial Prize The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize is an annual prize given in honour of historian Isaac Deutscher and his wife Tamara Deutscher for a new book published in English "which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about ...

Committee, an associate editor of the ''

Socialist Register The ''Socialist Register'' is an annual socialist publication. It was founded in 1964 by Ralph Miliband and John Saville. They had criticisms of the ''New Left Review'' (''NLR'') after Perry Anderson became editor of the ''NLR'' in 1962. Miliband a ...

'', and a member of the editorial board of the ''Brazilian Journal of Political Economy'', and the South Korean journal ''Marxism 21''. He is also a participating editor of ''Latin American Perspectives'', a member of the advisory board of ''Historical Materialism'', and a member of the international editorial board of ''Studies in Political Economy'', among many other journals.

Publications

* ''Progressive Policies for Economic Development: Economic Diversification and Social Inclusion after Climate Change''. London: Routledge, 2022. * ''The Age of Crisis: Neoliberalism, the Collapse of Democracy, and the Pandemic''. London: PalgraveMacmillan, 2022. *
Growth and Change in Neoliberal Capitalism: Essays on the Political Economy of Late Development
', Leiden: Brill, 2020. *
Value and Crisis: Essays on Labour, Money and Contemporary Capitalism
', Leiden: Brill, 2019. * ''Brazil: Neoliberalism versus Democracy''. London: Pluto Press, 2018 (with L. Morais). * ''Economic Transitions to Neoliberalism in Middle-Income Countries: Policy Dilemmas, Economic Crises, Forms of Resistance'', London: Routledge, 2009 (editor, with G. Yalman). * ''Political Economy of Brazil: Recent Economic Performance''. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007 (editor, with P. Arestis). * ''Neoliberalism: A Critical Reader'', London: Pluto Press, 2005 (editor, with D. Johnston). * ''The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics''. Aldershot: Edward Elgar (editor, with

Ben Fine Ben Fine (born 1948) is Professor of Economics at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. Background Fine was born in Coventry in 1948. One of six brothers, he and all but one other followed their father and studied m ...

). * ''Marx’s Capital'', London: Pluto Press, 2004, 2010, 2016 (with

). * ''Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction'', London: Pluto Press, 2003 (editor). * ''The Value of Marx: Political Economy for Contemporary Capitalism'', London: Routledge, 2002.

References

External links

Alfredo Saad Filho page at SOAS
Brazilian economists Living people Brazilian anti-capitalists Brazilian people of Lebanese descent Brazilian emigrants to the United Kingdom Academics of SOAS University of London Brazilian expatriate academics Marxian economists Brazilian Marxists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Brazil-economist-stub