Alfredo Saad-Filho


Alfredo Saad-Filho is a Brazilian Marxian economist.

Education and career

Alfredo Saad-Filho has degrees in Economics from the University of Brasília and the University of London. He is currently Professor of International Relations at Queen's University Belfast. He was Professor of Political Economy at SOAS University of London between 2000 and 2019, Chair of the SOAS Department of Development Studies, Head of the SOAS Doctoral School, and Chair of Department of International Development at King's College London.
Saad-Filho was Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in Geneva, in 2011-2012, and he has taught in universities and research institutions in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mozambique, Switzerland, and the UK. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Medal of the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, in 2014, and the SOAS Director’s Teaching Prize, in 2016. His research interests include the political economy of development, industrial policy, neoliberalism, democracy, alternative economic policies, Latin American political and economic development, inflation and stabilisation, and the labour theory of value and its applications. Alfredo Saad Filho was a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner, among many other roles.
Saad-Filho is a member of the Deutscher Memorial Prize Committee, an associate editor of the Socialist Register, and a member of the editorial board of the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, and the South Korean journal Marxism 21. He is also a participating editor of Latin American Perspectives, a member of the advisory board of Historical Materialism, and a member of the international editorial board of Studies in Political Economy, among many other journals.

Publications

Books
  • London: Routledge, 2022.
  • London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.', Leiden: Brill, 2020.
  • ', Leiden: Brill, 2019.
  • London: Pluto Press, 2018.
  • Lusaka: UNDP, 2007.]
  • London: Pluto Press, 2004, 2010, 2016.
  • London: Routledge, 2002.
Edited Books
  • Leiden: Brill, 2024.
  • London: Merlin Press, 2023..
  • Leiden: Brill, 2022, and Chicago: Haymarket, 2023.
  • . Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2012.
  • . London: Routledge, 2009.
  • London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  • London: Pluto Press, 2005.
  • London: Pluto Press, 2003.
Edited Journal Issues
  • , special issue of Geoforum, 2020.
  • , double special issues of Latin American Perspectives, 47 and 47, 2020.', special issue of Critical Sociology, 43 2016.
Chapters in Books'
  • , in: T. Brass and R.J. Das Interrogating the Future. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
  • Leiden: Brill, 2024.
  • London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
  • ‘ London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
  • London: Merlin Press.
  • ‘, Brussels: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2022.
  • ‘Covid-19 and the End of Neoliberalism''’, in: A. Topal, O. Birler, C. Celik and A. Goksel State Transformation in the 21st Century. Istanbul: Imge Books, 2022.
  • , London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
  • ‘ London: Routledge, 2022.
  • ‘’, in A. Saad-Filho, A.P. Colombi and J. Grigera Leiden: Brill, 2022, and Chicago: Haymarket, 2023.
  • ‘’, in: D. Fasenfest . Leiden: Brill, 2022.
  • ‘’, in: M. Williams and V. Satgar Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021.
  • Rio de Janeiro: Editora UFRJ, 2021.
  • ‘Foreword’, in: Leiden: Brill, 2022.
  • ‘’, Scientific Works of the Free Economic Society of Russia, vol.223, 2020, pp.565-572.
  • ‘Neoliberal Capitalism: The Authoritarian Turn’, in: L. Panitch and G. Albo Socialist Register. London: Merlin Press 2019.