Iran's Economy Under Sanctions

Before joining Virginia Tech, he was on the Economics faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, from 1977-84. During 1979-80, he served as an economist in the Research Department of the Central Bank of Iran.

He was educated at the University of London, Queen Mary College (B.Sc. Econ 1971), and Harvard University (MA 1975, PhD 1977). His research has covered a wide area in energy, population, development economics, and Middle East economics. His articles have appeared in Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and the Journal of Economic Inequality, among others. He is the co-author with Jacques Cremer of Models of the Oil Market (1991), editor of Labor and Human Capital in the Middle East (2001) which was selected as a Noteworthy Book for 2001 by the Princeton University Industrial Relations Program, and co-editor of The Production and Diffusion of Public Choice (2004). His current research interests are in labor markets and skill formation, population and development, and Middle Eastern economies, especially Iran.