Dr Shahzavar Karimzadi

I have extensive experience in teaching Economics, International Business and Methodology of Research at different institutions both in the UK and abroad. 

I am a Senior Lecturer in Global Business at Christ Church Business School. Currently I teach Research Methods and Global Economics and International Finance at postgraduate level.

I have led and taught a range of modules at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. At postgraduate level I led and taught Global Financial Markets, Monetary Economics and Research Methods. At undergraduate level I taught Introduction to Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Economics, Financial Markets and Institutions, Capital Markets, Macroeconomic Models, History of Economic Thought and Public Finance.

My qualifications include a BSc and MA in Economics. I was graduated from University of London with a PhD in Monetary Economics. My academic background also includes a BA in Philosophy from Birkbeck, University of London and a teacher training certificate from University of Greenwich. Before joining Christ Church Business School, I taught at Hertfordshire University, London Metropolitan University (formerly North London University) and at the Beijing Electronic School in China. My portfolio of lecturing experience also includes teaching Economics at Goldsmith College (University of London), North London College and South Thames college.

I am an author of several research papers and books and currently working on a book on the Elements of Public Economics. Over the years, I have acted as a personal tutor at different teaching institutions and have supervised a large number of dissertations both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This includes supervising PhD research theses. I have also served as external examiner in various different capacities. As the diversity coordinator for the economics division at London Metropolitan University I supported students with a wide range of backgrounds and needs. As a member of the ethics committee in Hertfordshire Business School, I reviewed undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation research proposals for economics, business and finance students, to make sure that the code of ethics and guidelines were in line with policy and procedures. I collaboration with other colleagues, I successfully applied for external research grants from UKRI India agency, in the academic year 2016-17, in order to conduct research on food security in South India. 

My research interests include Money and Interest, Financial Markets and Institutions, Central Banking and Monetary Policy, International Business, Public Economics, Human Rights and Economic Development, and the History and Methodology of Monetary Economics.

Publications

• Money and its Origins (2013) – The book has been reviewed in Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (2013 vol. 6:2) by G. Papadopoulos. The second review of this book is by P. Zarembka in Review of Keynesian Economics (2015 vol. 3:3).
• Methodology of Deception (2015) This book is a significant contribution to methodology of research on stateless nations and development studies.
• Dialectic of Regressive Errors (2015) – This book explores different types of colonialism and reveals that in the mainstream economics the adverse impacts of artificial colonial boundaries are entirely overlooked.
• Culture in Economics (2019) – (published in Advances in Economics and Business vol. 7:1). This paper argues that the tapestry of a human society consists of many intertwined parts and economy is only one of these parts. From this perspective culture is neither monolithic nor stationary. A democratic culture is more profound, organic and dynamic for economic progress and sustainability than it is being perceived in economics.
• Permanent Economic Disorder (2022) – This book is a major scholarly work that provides a thorough analysis of the hidden dimensions and multiple respects of economic disorders. It seeks to provide refreshing recounts of the tenets of economic disorders. This book is in the Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy list as an outstanding scholarly accomplishment.
• Temporary Economic Crisis (2023) – This book is a methodical analysis of the deep-rooted causes of economic crises. It traces the origins and dimensions of economic crises to refine further our understanding of developed contemporary economies. This book probes deeply into aqueducts of salvation in order to dispense with old ways of thinking. This book is also in the Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy list as an outstanding scholarly accomplishment.
• Cost of Renting the Earth (2023) Eurasian Journal of Social Sciences, 11(3-4), 2023, 115-128 DOI: 10.15604/ejss.2023.11.0304.002 This paper critically examines the conventional view of land in economics. Land in conventional economics is detached from the earth and downgraded to a basic factor of production. As a factor of production land delivers a service and for this service it is paid a rent. Ultimately, this comes down to equating the price of the earth to the market rent. This outlook has got many implications. One of implication is turning a blind eye to the anthropomorphic impacts of climate change. In this paper it is argued that the cost of land is more than economic. It is existential and is beyond economic measures.
• Elements of Public Economics (2024) I am currently researching, working on a draft for this book. 

From 2008 to 2014 I was a senior research fellow for the Global Policy Institute (GPI). I have been a part of many delegations on human rights issues and state enforces disappearances, in parliaments across Europe (i.e. in Britain, Sweden, Norway and at the European Parliament) and have taken part in the Oslo Freedom Forum (2014). I have had many interviews and taken part in a number of debates on economics and human rights issues with various media outlets worldwide. Among them are The Diplomat (16 May 2011), the Gunaz TV, the Medyanews (15 January 21), and India Narrative (24 March 2022), the CACC (9 May 2021).