Degrees:
Ph.D., The New School
M.A., The New School
M.S., Int'l Univ. College of Turin
B.S., Birzeit Univ.
Ibrahim earned his PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research, NY in 2019. Prior to pursuing his PhD degree, he worked with local and international institutions conducting economic and policy research in Palestine.
His research revolves around macroeconomics, distribution and inequality, heterodox growth models and political economy. He is particularly interested in identifying and rectifying the shortcomings of macroeconomic analysis when studying the diverse political, social and institutional context of developing countries.
Ibrahim has taught economics in the US, Italy, and Palestine. His teaching experience and the diverse backgrounds of his students allowed him to identify key strategies that he utilizes in the classroom: keeping students updated on the “meta-picture” of the course, understanding the backgrounds and capabilities of his students, and most importantly, he found that students who are constantly reminded of the direct, daily relevance of what they're learning never ask ‘what is the point of all of this?’. |
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Macroeconomics
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Inequality
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Post-Keynesian economics
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Models of macroeconomic fluctuations
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Political economy
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Functional distribution of income
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National accounting data & measurement
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Heterodox growth models
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Inequality
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Palestinian Economy
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Publications:
- Shikaki, I. (2025). Functional Distribution of Income in Palestine: Relevance, Measurement, and Political Economy Implications. Review of Radical Political Economics, 57(2), 282-294.
- Shikaki, I. (2023). A Structuralist Model of the Palestinian Economy: Who Bears the Economic Burden of the Israeli Occupation? Review of Political Economy, 36(4), 1582–1612.
- Shikaki, I. (2021). The Political Economy of Dependency and Class Formation in the OPT since 1967. In A. Tartir, T. Dana, & T. Seidel (Eds.), Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Shikaki, I. (2021). Economic Peace With Israel Won’t Help Palestinians. Foreign Policy.
- Lang, D., Setterfield, M., & Shikaki, I. (2020). Is there scientific progress in macroeconomics? The case of the NAIRU. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, 17(1), 19-38.
Presentations:
- (2025) “The Law and Political Economy of Compartmentalization,” Comparative Legal and Political Futures: From South Africa to Palestine, Yale Law School. New Haven, CT.
- (2024) “The Political Economy of Dependency in Palestine: an Agent Based Approach,” Eastern Economics Association (EEA) 49th annual conference. Boston, MA.
- (2023) “Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in Palestine,” Lecture at Bard College summer workshop on public finance and economic policy. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
- (2022) “A Structural Model of the Palestinian Economy,” Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomics Policy (FMM) annual conference. Berlin, Germany.
- (2021) “A Post-Keynesian Model of the Palestinian Economy: Political Economy and Distribution,” International Conference on Economic Theory and Policy, Meiji University. Tokyo, Japan.
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- C.L.R. James Justice Fellowship, Trinity Social Justice Institute, 2025.
- Dean Arthur H. Hughes Award for Achievement in Teaching, Trinity College, 2024.
- Advocate of the Year Award, Trinity College, 2024.
- US fellow, Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), 2023.
- Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College, 2021.
- Dissertation Fellowship, Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, 2018.
- Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, The New School, 2017.
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