Mohammad Moeini-Feizabadi

Mohammad Moeini-Feizabadi
Visiting Faculty

Mohammad Moeini-Feizabadi's research focuses on the relationship between R&D, the productivity of labor, the profitability of manufacturing businesses, and economic growth.


Biography

Moeini-Feizabadi's PhD research focuses on the relationship between R&D, productivity of labor, profitability of manufacturing businesses, and economic growth. While a MA student, he translated into Farsi (Persian) Douglass C. North’s seminal book entitled Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Growth. After graduating from his Master’s program, he worked from 1999 to 2004 as a researcher and research coordinator at the Majlis (Iranian Parliament) Research Center, where he was engaged in research on the theory of institutional change, on the concept social capital and its relationship to the process of economic development, on globalization and its impact on developing countries, and on the Bill of Tax Reform. He has taught courses on topics such as Introduction to Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, New Institutional Economics,  Economics of Development, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Intermediate Political Economy at a variety of higher education institutions including University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst, Skidmore College, Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), Bard College at Simon’s Rock; and at Iran Academia, the first online Farsi (Persian) language university in humanities and social sciences.

BA (Economics), MA (Economics of Planning and Development) University of Tehran, Iran; PhD (Candidate) University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst.

Moeini-Feizabadi was a visiting faculty member at Bennington for the 2015-2016 academic year and returned for Fall 2016.