Dissertation

Picture"I have measured out my life in coffee spoons" - T.S. Elliot
Dissertation Title: "Non-Parasitic Warlords and Geographical Distance"
Dissertation Committee: 
  • Dr. Dimitrios Diamantaras, Associate Professor (Economics), Temple University; email: dimitrios.diamantaras@temple.edu
  • Dr. Dai Zusai, Assistant Professor (Economics), Temple University; email: zusai@temple.edu
  • Dr. Moritz Ritter, Assistant Professor (Economics), Temple University; email: moritz.ritter@temple.edu
  • Dr. Edward Rosenthal, Professor (Marketing and Supply Chain Management), Temple University; email: edward.rosenthal@temple.edu 

Publications

  • ​​​"Non-ParasiticWarlords and Geographical Distance". Economics of Peace and Security Journal . Vol. 10, No.1 (April 2015).
  • "The Economic Structure of the Modern American Comic Book Market" with Youngha
    Ki. The Journal of Cultural Economics . Online: October 2018; Print: forthcoming.
Conferences & Invited Talks:
1. 2013 Southern Economic Association Conference (Nov. 23-25); Tampa, FL
  • Presented "Non-Parasitic Warlords and Geographical Distance".
2. Economics Department at Saint Joseph's University (Oct. 8, 2013)
  • Presented "Introduction to the Field of Islamic Economics with a Focus on the Microeconomic Foundations"
3. 2014 Eastern Economic Association Conference (March 6-9); Boston, MA
  • Presented "Symmetric and Asymmetric Rates of Seizure within a Warlord Conflict".
4. 2014 Southern economic Association Conference (Nov. 22-24); Atlanta, GA
  • Presenting "Symmetric and Asymmetric Rates of Seizure within a Warlord Conflict (UPDATED)"
  • Presenting "The Case for a Centralized Zakat Distribution Mechanism"
5. 2016 Eastern Economic Association Conference; Washington, D.C.
  •   New Versus Established Consumers with the Market for Comic Books: The role of continuity and the DC Comics Experiment"
  • The Importance of Jargon with the Field of Economics" with Gavin Hurley, LaSell College
  • The Effect of Legal and Shar'ia Characterization of Current Accounts on the Central Banking System Between Full Reserve and Fractional Reserve Banking" with Joe Bradford.
6. 2016 Southern Economic Association Conference; Washington, D.C.
  •  The Economics of the Comic Book Market"
  • The Effect of Legal and Shar'ia Characterization of Current Accounts on the Central Banking System Between Full Reserve and Fractional Reserve Banking" with Joe Bradford.
7. 2019 Eastern Economic Association Conference; New York City, NY
  • The Success of Licensed Comic Book Films and the Sale of Trade Paperback Comic Books"
8. Invited Talks : RadTalks at New York University; New York City, NY, "Islamic Economics: What it is and where it should be going". Economics Department of Saint Joseph's University; Philadelphia, PA, "Introduction to the Field of Islamic Economics  with a Focus on the Microeconomic
Foundations"