I am an economist, currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics (School of Humanities and Social Sciences) at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. I am an alumnus of the Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, where I completed my doctoral studies in May 2022. This website is (constantly) under reconstruction.
I have previously taught undergraduate students in Pakistan at Beaconhouse National University and in the United States at The New School. I also have experience of service and governance in higher education, having served on the Board of Trustees at The New School. In 2020-2021 I was a graduate fellow at the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School.
Some of my latest blogposts are posted below. Through my blog (and Twitter), I share my thoughts on interests related to but also beyond my research agenda, including capitalism, democracy, Pakistan, economics, universities and academia. Here’s a list of some of my Twitter threads:
- An HET/heterodox reading list to accompany Blanchard and Johnson’s Macroeconomics
- Should we be concerned about a wage-price spiral in Pakistan?
- The economy is not a collection of people, it is a system, and that distinction matters a lot
- On technocrats, unity governments, political culture, and Pakistan
You can also find me on Mastodon.
In my downtime I enjoy following Formula 1 and roaming the world of Death Stranding.
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LATEST POSTS
- Wanted: a Pakistani community of economic heterodoxyRead my opinion piece for PIDE’s Discourse magazine here.
- A synchronized slump of the rupee and the state-society bondThis article was published in The Friday Times. You can also read it here on the TFT website. The events of the last few days have brought many images to our screens which showed the quickly crumbling state-society relationship: a… Continue reading A synchronized slump of the rupee and the state-society bond
- For Anum NawazIt has been over two months since the news of Anum’s passing, news which shook the ground beneath my feet. Even though she was one of my closest friends, there was grief but no grieving, sorrow but no mourning. There… Continue reading For Anum Nawaz
- The Tightening Noose of Pakistani Monetary AusterityNew post for the Monetary Policy Institute which you can read here. An excerpt: “The SBP’s failure to check inflation is completely expected, not because they have been behind the curve, as Uzair Younus argues, but instead because interest rates are… Continue reading The Tightening Noose of Pakistani Monetary Austerity
- The demonization of Ishaq DarThis article was first published in the Friday Times. A few months ago, I wrote an article trying to put praise for Miftah Ismail into perspective and context. The same crisis theater in which Miftah was christened Maximus now has… Continue reading The demonization of Ishaq Dar
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