Political economy of development, Industrial policy, Neoliberalism and alternative economic policies, Latin American political and economic development, Inflation and stabilisation, labour theory of value and its applications, political economy of Brazil
Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy and International Development in the Department of International Development at King’s college, London. Previously, he was Professor of Political Economy at School of Oriental & African Studies – SOAS, University of London; Chair of the SOAS Department of Development Studies (2006-10); Head of SOAS Doctoral School (2018-19); and Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2011-12). Alfredo was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil in 2014 and the SOAS Director’s Teaching Prize in 2016. He has degrees in Economics from the University of Brasília (Brazil) and SOAS University of London and has taught in universities and research institutions in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mozambique, Switzerland and the UK. His academic publications include nine authored or edited books, 70 journal articles and 50 book chapters, as well as 30 reports and other contributions for the United Nations and other international agencies (UNCTAD, UNDP, UN-ESCWA, and UN-DESA). His work has been published in 15 languages and presented over 200 academic events in 30 countries. These writings range across critiques of the (Post-)Washington consensus; International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank policies and pro-poor policy alternatives. They also include concrete analyses of fiscal, monetary, financial, balance of payments and employment policies, as well as inflation targeting, resource use (including ‘resource curse’ and Dutch Disease) and policy-making in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America (especially Brazil) and the Middle East. Alfredo is currently researching the political economy of Brazil, especially the transitions from import-substituting industrialisation to neoliberalism, and from military dictatorship to democracy. He is also investigating the recent trajectory of Brazil, and the achievements and limitations of the administrations led by the PT and by President Jair Bolsonaro.
Alfredo is currently researching the political economy of Brazil, especially the transitions from import-substituting industrialisation to neoliberalism, and from military dictatorship to democracy.
He is also investigating the recent trajectory of Brazil, and the achievements and limitations of the administrations led by the PT and by President Jair Bolsonaro.
