Fadhel Kaboub

Fadhel Kaboub is an associate professor of economics at Denison University, and the president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He is the author of Global South Perspectives on substack. He is a member of the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs at UN-DESA. He is also a member of the Independent Expert Group on Just Transition and Development, an expert group member with the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, a member of the Earth4All 21st Century Transformational Economics Commission, a Steering Committee member with the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, and a member of the Independent Expert Group on Just Transition Finance. He has recently served as Under-Secretary-General for Financing for Development at the Organisation of Southern Cooperation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr. Kaboub is an expert on designing public policies to enhance monetary and economic sovereignty in the Global South, build resilience, and promote equitable and sustainable prosperity. His recent work focuses on Just Transition, Climate Finance, and transforming the global trade, finance, and investment architecture. His most recent co-authored publication is Just Transition: A Climate, Energy, and Development Vision for Africa (May 2023). He has held a number of research affiliations with the Levy Economics Institute (NY), the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (MA), the Economic Research Forum (Cairo), Power Shift Africa (Nairobi), African Forum on Climate Change, Energy and Development (Abuja), and the Center for Strategic Studies on the Maghreb (Tunis). You can follow him on LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Bluesky, YouTube, and TikTok @FadhelKaboub.

His recent publications include:

• “The Cost of Unemployment and the Job Guarantee Alternative in Saudi Arabia” (with M. Forstater and M. Kelsay), Policy Report No. 101, Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, July 2015;
• “The Making of the Tunisian Revolution,” in I. Diwan, ed., Understanding the Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings (World Scientific, 2014);
• “Do Prevailing Wage Laws Increase Total Construction Costs?” (with M. Kelsay), Review of Keynesian Economics, Vol. 2 (April 2014);
• “The Fiscal Cliff Mythology and the Full Employment Alternative: An Affordable and Productive Plan,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 45 (September 2013);
• “The End of Neoliberalism? An Institutional Analysis of the Arab Uprisings,” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 47 (June 2013);
• “The Low Cost of Full Employment in the United States,” in M. Forstater and M. Murray, eds., The Job Guarantee: Toward True Full Employment (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013);
• “From Neoliberalism to Social Justice: The Feasibility of Full Employment in Tunisia,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 44 (September 2012); and
• “Understanding and Preventing Financial Instability: Post Keynesian Institutionalism and Government as Employer of Last Resort,” in C. Whalen, ed., Financial Instability and Economic Security after the Great Recession (Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2011).

Kaboub is a member of Economists for Full Employment, the Association for Evolutionary Economics, and the Union for Radical Political Economics. He has been an elected member of the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political Economics since 2006. He holds an MA and a Ph.D. in economics from UMKC.

Associated Research Programs

• Employment Policy and Labor Markets