John Willoughby

Professor and Department Chair
Roper 106
Tel: (202) 885-3759
Fax: (202) 885-3790
jwillou@american.edu

Research Interests
Political economy of globalization in the Middle East and South Asia: Current research concerned with investigating the economic institution that regulate labor markets in the Arabian Peninsula and the rise of higher educational institutions in GCC countries.

Have also published work on the economic and social history of the American presence in Europe during the second half of the twentieth century, and the political economy of nation-state relations in the modern world economy.

Teaching Interests
European Economic History, American Economic History, Political Economy, History of Economic Thought.

Professional Activities
John Willoughby received his B.A. in History from the University of Michigan. He received his M.A. in Economics from Cambridge University, and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has recently returned from a two-year stay in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates where he helped create an undergraduate economics program at the new American University of Sharjah. He has also taught at the American University in Cairo as a visiting professor.

Willoughby has long been active in the Union for Radical Political Economics, and is presently a member of the Review of Radical Political Economics editorial board. He is also a member of the Middle East Studies Association.

Selected Publications

• "Segmented Ferminization and the Decline of Neo-Patriarchy in the Gulf", Comparitive Studies of South Asian, Africa and the Middle East (Spring 2008).
• "Ambivalent Anxieties of the South Asian-Gulf Arab Labor Exchange", Revista de Economia Mundial 14 (2006): 31-56.
• "The Irony of Environmentalism: The Ecological Futility but Political Necessity of Life Style Changes", Ethics and International Affairs 19:3 (Fall 2005), co-authored with Paul Wapner.
• "Work Productivity When Knowledge of Different Reward Systems Varies: Report from an Economic Experiment", Journal of Economic Psychology 25 (2004): 591-600, co-authored with Richard Burchett.
• Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The American Occupation of Germany, Palgrave Academic Press, 2001.

• "Let A Thousand Models Bloom: Western Unviersities and the Making of the New Higher Educational system in the Gulf"

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