Ali Ahmad is a scholar of economic and intellectual history whose work explores the institutional and epistemological foundations of twentieth-century economic thought and political economy. He is the author of A History of Economic Thought at the Frankfurt Institute: Beyond the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, 1923–1945 (London and New York: Routledge, 2025), the first comprehensive study to recover the economic theories developed by lesser-known members of the Frankfurt Institute.
He holds a PhD in Economic and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge, having worked under Martin Ruehl. He has received awards from the E…
Ali Ahmad is a scholar of economic and intellectual history whose work explores the institutional and epistemological foundations of twentieth-century economic thought and political economy. He is the author of A History of Economic Thought at the Frankfurt Institute: Beyond the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, 1923–1945 (London and New York: Routledge, 2025), the first comprehensive study to recover the economic theories developed by lesser-known members of the Frankfurt Institute.
He holds a PhD in Economic and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge, having worked under Martin Ruehl. He has received awards from the Economic History Society, the Cambridge Political Economy Society, and the Ellen MacArthur Fund. He previously earned a dual BA in Business Administration and Economics from the American University of Beirut, where he was on the Dean’s Honour List, and an MA in Politics and International Relations from Durham University with Distinction.
