Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi, Ph.D.
120 Round Court
Petaluma, CA 94952-4720
(707) 762-3492

zagrossadjadi@yahoo.com


Citizenship United States of America

Education
1996 Ph.D., Political Economy and Public Policy, University of Southern California
1991 B.A., Economics, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
1991 B.S., Computer Science (Applications), Sonoma State University

Honors
1994-5 Occidental Petroleum Fulbright Scholarship, Queen's University, Canada
1994-5 Haynes Dissertation Fellowship, University of Southern California
1991-4 University of Southern California Pre-Doctoral Merit Fellowship
1989-90 California-Quebec Exchange Scholar, McGill University

Teaching / Research Fields
Applied Microeconomics
Applied Macroeconomics
Political Economy and Public Policy

Publications
(i) Books
Instructor's Manual for John J. Macionis and Vincent N. Parrillo, Cities and Urban Life, co-authored with Enrico Marcelli and Pascale Joassart (Princeton, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998).

(ii) Monographs

The Living Wage: The Issues and the Impact, San Francisco, California: California Department of Industrial Relations, 2001.

(iii) Articles

"The Potential Jamaican Impact of Criminal Deportees from the US," co-authored with Dillon Alleyne in Bernard Headley and Marlyn Jones, eds., Caribbean Emigration: Crime and Deportation, forthcoming.
"Comparing Outcomes: Apprenticeship in Canada, the United States, and Australia", Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, forthcoming, August 2005.
On the Problematic Definition of Terrorism," Journal of Diplomatic Language, co-authored with C. Daniel Vencill, volume 2, number 1 (June 2005): 66-81.
"Identifying National Types: A Cluster Analysis of Politics, Economics and Conflict", co-authored with Murray Wolfson and Patrick James, Journal of Peace Research, volume 41, number 5 (September 2004): 607-623.
"The Three Faces of John Elliott: His Contribution to Political Economy", American Review of Political Economy, volume 2, number 1 (June 2004): 55-79.
"Genesis: An Economic Interpretation", Rethinking Marxism, volume 16, number 4 (April 2004): 211-214.
"Allocation of the California Drug War Costs: Direct Expenses, Externalities, Opportunity Costs, and Fiscal Losses", co-authored with C. Daniel Vencill Justice Policy Journal, volume 1, number 1 (2001): 1-40.
"Fact, Fiction, and Fuzzy Logic: Is There a U.S. Commercial Bank 'Safety Net Subsidy'? Evidence From Canadian Banking", co-authored with C. Daniel Vencill in Refuting the Federal Safety Net "Subsidy" Argument (Washington, DC: The Bankers Roundtable,1999).
"Review Essay: Globalization and the Nation-State," American Review of Canadian Studies, volume 25, number 1 (Spring 1995): 111-122.
"After NAFTA," co-authored with H. Eric Schockman in J. Kirlin, ed., California Policy Choices, 9th edition (Sacramento: University of Southern California School of Public Administration, 1994): 95-113.
"Cultural Genocide of the Kurds" in Kurdistan in the Media (Palo Alto, California: Kurdish Relief Aid, 1991).

(iv) Book Reviews

"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," Signaling Left, forthcoming.

Manuscripts

The Economics of Crime, Corruption, and Terrorism, co-authored with C. Daniel Vencill Submitted/In of San Francisco State University -- book-length project in preparation.
Preparation Modern State Intervention: The European Union, East Asia, and the Caribbean, co-authored with Nikolaos Kariagiannis of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies-book-length project in preparation.
"Why Economics and Psychology Don't Mix," under submission to Journal of Caribbean Psychology, "The Boundaries of the Discipline are the Boundaries of Knowledge," being revised for resubmission to Journal of Research Practice.
"Politics, Economics and Conflict Continuity and Change in Systemic Democracy," co-authored with Patrick James of the University of Southern California, under submission to International Studies Quarterly.
"Fire in the Firehouse: Informal Economic Activity and Preference Falsification in Peru", co-authored with Enrico Marcelli of Harvard University, under submission to Social and Economic Studies.
"Is There an Optimal Non-Zero Level of Protectionism," co-authored with Abdullahi Abdulkadri of the University of the West Indies, Mona, currently being revised for submission to International Studies Quarterly.
"Is Canadian Voting Behaviour Regionalized? A Polimetric Analysis," in preparation for submission to Canadian Journal of Political Science.
"The Effect of Immigration on Inflation" -for submission to Applied Economics Letters (co-author: Kelly-Ann Dixon of The University of the West Indies, Mona).
"Are Children an Inferior Good?" -for submission to the Southern Economic Journal (co-author: Toshihiro Uchida of the University of the West Indies, Mona)
"An Estimate of Individual and Social Determinants of Working as a Day Laborer Among Foreign-Born Mexicans in Southern California" - co-authored with Enrico Marcelli of Harvard University, for submission to International Migration Teaching July 2003-Present, Lecturer of Economics, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston.

Experience

Jamaica

Courses: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory I, Intermediate Microeconomic Theory II, Microeconomics I (graduate course), Microeconomics II (graduate course) January 2003-July 2003, Lecturer of Public Administration, San Francisco State Univ.
Course: Microeconomic Applications for Public Administration and Policy January 2000-July 2003, Lecturer of Economics, San Francisco State University Courses: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Introductory Microeconomics History of Economic Thought, Law and Economics January 1999-July 2003, Adjunct Professor of Economics and Management, Golden Gate University
Courses: Money and Banking, Introduction to International Business, Introductory Microeconomics, Introductory Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics (graduate course) January 1996-August 1998, Lecturer of Economics, California State University, Fullerton
Courses: Introduction to Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Intermediate Business Microeconomics, Economies of the Pacific Rim, Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy (graduate course) January 1997-June 1998, Part-time Professor of Economics, Chapman University
Courses: Managerial Economics, Introduction to Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Economic Analysis for Business Decisions (graduate course) November 1996-June 1998, Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics, The Union Institute, Los Angeles, California
Courses: Introduction to Comparative Politics, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, American Foreign Policy, Introduction to American Government, Social Responsibility of the Mass Media, Introduction to Microeconomics, Senior Thesis in Political Science September 1995-August 1997, Instructor of Business, Santa Monica College Courses: Assembly Language Programming, Visual C++, COBOL, Pascal, FORTRAN, C++, C, Introduction to Computers January 1997-May 1997, Lecturer of Economics, California State University, Long Beach
Course: Money and Banking January 1993-December 1993, Instructor of Business, Santa Monica College Course: Assembly Language Programming January 1991-June 1991, Teaching Assistant in Mathematics, Sonoma State University
Course: Applied Mathematics for Teachers Conference "An Analysis of the Causal Determinants Behind Why Certain Individuals Become And Invited Day Laborers and an Estimate of their Numbers and Demographic Presentations Characteristics" - co-authored with Enrico Marcelli for the Southern Demographic Association Annual Meeting, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 2004.
"Subnational Sabotage or National Paramountcy? Examining the Dynamics of Subnational Acceptance of International Agreements," Southern Association of Canadian Studies Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, 2004.
"Relative Versus Absolute Gains Maximizers in Free Trade Regimes: A Game-Theoretic Analysis," co-authored with Abdullahi Abdulkadri, Canadian Economic Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 2004.
"Is Canadian Voting Behaviour Regionalized? A Polimetric Analysis," University of Missouri, Columbia Canadian Studies Seminar, 2004.
"Politics, Economics and Conflict Continuity and Change in Systemic Democracy," Conference on Systemic Democracy, University of Iowa, 2004.
"The Potential Impact of Criminal Deportees to Jamaica", Third International Conference on Crime in the Caribbean, Kingston, Jamaica, 2004.
"Chinese Economic Thought Before Adam Smith" presented at California State University, Hayward Economics Department Seminar, 2003.
"Comparing Outcomes: Apprenticeship in Canada, the United States, and Australia", Southern Association for Canadian Studies Founding Meeting, Atlanta, 2003. "The Effect of Immigration on Prices and Consumption Patterns in California", Western Economic Association Meeting, San Francisco, 2001.
"New Security Issues and the Dark Side of Globalization: Transnational Crime, Drug Smuggling, Terrorism, Money Laundering, and the Stealth of Nations", co-author C. Daniel Vencill, Western Economic Association Meeting, San Francisco, 2001.
"Globalization and Regional Inequalities in the Canada and the United States", Union for Radical Political Economics Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2001.
"Democracy and Peace: A Cluster Analysis of National Attributes," co-authored with Murray Wolfson and Patrick James, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2001.
"Regional Development in North America and China" presented at Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China Economics Department Seminar, 2000.
"A Cluster Analysis of National Attributes" co-authored with Murray Wolfson and Patrick James, Peace Studies Association Annual Meeting, Yale University, 2000.
"Regional Empirical Evidence on Guns, Weapons and Violence Prevention in California Public Schools", co-authored with C. Daniel Vencill and Jack W. Osman, Western Regional Science Association Annual Meeting, Kauai, Hawaii, 2000.
"Immigration and the US and Canadian Economies" presented at the Seminar in Political Economy and Public Policy, Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1999.
"In Search of Canadian Neoconservatism", co-authored with David J. Rovinsky, Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 1998.
"Regional Phillips Curves: An Econometric Analysis," co-authored with Lisa Grobar, Western Economics Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, 1997.
"Right, Duty, Responsibility, and Power: The Political Foundations of Liberal Economic Thought," Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting, Montreal, 1997. "A Tale of Two Failures: Canadian and American Energy Policy in the 1970s," Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Reno, 1996.
"Provincial Foreign Currency Debt," Seminar in Political Economy and Public Policy, Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1996.
"The Political Economy of Hong Kong/China Relations" Economics Association of California State University Fullerton Invited Speakers Program, 1996.
"State of the World: Hong Kong 1997," State of the World Panel Series, Office of International Programs, University of Southern California, 1996.
"Globalization and the Canadian Provinces," Canadian Studies Program Lecture Series, University of California, Berkeley, 1995.
"Regional Explanations of Voting Behavior," Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Biennial Conference, Seattle, 1995.
"The Effect of NAFTA on State and Local Governments," Third Millennium Conference Sponsored by the United States Information Agency, Ottawa, Ontario, 1994.
"Capital Controls in ASEAN Countries" co-author Justin Chee, Western Economics Association Pacific Rim Conference, Hong Kong, 1994 (also chaired session). "Towards a More Growth-Oriented Society: Lessons for Canada from East Asia" Seminar in National and International Development, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1994.
"Towards a Theory of Institutional Takeover: The EC-EFTA Experience," Seminar in Political Economy and Public Policy, Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1993.
"Can Canada Bring Down Inflation Without Sacrificing Jobs?" Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Biennial Conference, New Orleans, 1993.
"Perverse Regional Inflation Effects: The Canadian Monetary System as an Institution," Western Economics Association Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 1993
(also chaired and organized session).
"Towards a Quebec International Affairs Policy," American Council for Quebec Studies Biennial Meeting, Montreal, 1992.
"The Political Economy of Canadian Interprovincial Trade Barriers," Western Economics Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1992 (also organized session). "California and the North American Free Trade Agreement" co-author Eric Schockman, Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Denver, 1992.

Other Papers

Budget change proposal for re-establishing the Research Reports Unit within the Division Prepared of Labor Statistics and Research, California Department of Industrial Relations, 1999, approximately 50 pages.

Research Grants

$4,000 from the University of the West Indies for research on the economics of crime, corruption and terrorism, 2004-2005. $2,000 from the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice for research on impact of diverting drug offenders to treatment, 2003
$5,000 from The Bankers Roundtable for research on the safety net subsidy paid by American banks, 1999.
$16,000 from the Canada-United States Fulbright Foundation for research work on the impact of globalization on Canada's provinces, 1994.
$15,000 from the Haynes Foundation for work on Doctoral Dissertation, 1994.
$2,000 from Sonoma State Enterprises for development of teaching materials for chaos theory in Mathematica, 1991.

Public,Professional and/or University Service

Executive Board, International Consortium of Associations for Pluralism in Economics, 2005-Present Member, NCB Economics Scholarship Interview Committee, 2005.
Vice-President, Southern Association for Canadian Studies, 2004-Present.
Referee, Social and Economic Studies, 2004-Present
Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Economics, UWI, 2004-Present
Bookstore and Library Liaison, Department of Economics, UWI, 2003-2004.
Member, Executive Council, Southern Association for Canadian Studies, 2003-Present
Editor-in-Chief, American Review of Political Economy, 2002-Present
Referee, International Studies Quarterly, 2001-Present
Wrote cost/benefit analysis on Streets to Work Program for Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Advisory Board Member, Center on Policy Initiatives, 1998-99
Organized and Chaired Roundtable on "Entering the Profession" at the Biennial Meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, Seattle, 1995
Graduate Student Coordinator, Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, 1994-96
Member, Executive Committee, Academic Council on International Programs, California State University System, 1990-91
Member, Academic and Fiscal Affairs Committee, Academic Council on International Programs, California State University System, 1990-91
Member, American Political Science Association
Member, Canadian Political Science Association
Member, Society for Political Methodology
Member, American Economic Association
Member, Canadian Economics Association
Member, Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Member, Southern Association for Canadian Studies
Member, American Society of International Law
Member, Progressive Economic Forum
Member, American Sociological Association

Research/ Management Experience

August 2000-August 2003, Research Manager (Economics), Research Reports Unit, Division of Statistics and Research, Department of Industrial Relations, State of California
April 1999-July 2000, Research Program Specialist (Economics), Division of Labor Statistics and Research, Department of Industrial Relations, State of California.
August 1998-April 1999, Research Analyst (Economics), Division of Labor Statistics and Research, Department of Industrial Relations, State of California.
January 1996-Present, Independent Economic Consultant.
August 1994-July 1995, Canada-United States Occidental Petroleum Fulbright Scholar, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
June 1992-August 1992, Research Assistant, Prof. Timothy Cason, Economics Dept., University of Southern California.
January 1991-August 1991, Research Assistant, Prof. Paul Wellin, Mathematics Dept., Sonoma State University.

References

Maria Y. Robbins, Deputy Chief, Division of Labor Statistics and Research, California Department of Industrial Relations, P.O. Box 420603, San Francisco, California 94142, (415) 703-4780, MRobbins@hq.dir.ca.gov
Enrico A. Marcelli, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, and Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, 100 Morrissey Blvd, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02125, (617) 642-9361, emarcell@hsph.harvard.edu
Jack W. Osman, Professor of Economics, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, (707) 781-9351, josman@sfsu.edu
Patrick James, Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of Political Science, 202 Professional Building, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, (573) 882-4687, jamesp@missouri.edu