Anwar Shaikh (economist)

Anwar Shaikh
Born	1945 Karachi, British India (present-day Pakistan)
Residence	United States
Nationality	United States
Fields	Macroeconomics, Marxian economics, crisis theory
Institutions	New School for Social Research
Alma mater	Stuyvesant High School Princeton University Columbia University

Anwar M. Shaikh (born 1945) is an Indian American economist working in the classical tradition. He is currently Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty of The New School in New York City. His work in political economy has focused on the economic theory and empirical patterns of developed capitalism. He has written on international trade, finance theory, political economy, U.S. macroeconomic policy, the welfare state, growth theory, inflation theory, crisis theory, inequality on the world scale, and past and current global economic crises.

Shaikh was born in Karachi, in 1945. He traveled extensively at an early age and attended schools and lived for various lengths of time in Ankara, Washington, D.C., New York City, Lagos, Kuala Lumpur, and Kuwait.

He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City in 1961, received a B.S.E from Princeton University in 1965, worked for two years in Kuwait, and then returned to the United States to study at Columbia University, from which he received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1973. In 1972 he joined the Economics Department at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.

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