Bina, Cyrus

Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota (Morris Campus), USA. He was formerly a fellow and research associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (1990-1995). Bina is a political economist and theorist of oil and energy with numerous scholarly publications in several fields of inquiry, including value theory and globalization. He has written widely, and spoken extensively on the radio and television (via satellite and otherwise) across the globe for more than 200 hours on the issues surrounding the Iranian economy and polity, evolutionary history of petroleum, nature of global polity vis-à-vis the posture of the post-hegemonic America, US foreign policy and US intervention in the Middle East and North Africa, and the worldwide financial and economic crisis of today. Bina is the author of The Economics of the Oil Crisis (1985) and Oil: A Time Machine – Journey Beyond Fanciful Economics and Frightful Politics (2011), and the co-editor of Modern Capitalism and Islamic Ideology in Iran (with H. Zangeneh, 1991), Beyond Survival: Wage Labor in the Late Twentieth Century (with C Davis and L. Clements, 1996), and Alternative Theories of Competition: Challenges to the Orthodoxy (with J. Moudud and P. Mason, 2012 forthcoming). Bina’s forthcoming books include Oil, War, and the Global Polity (Palgrave, 2012), and an editing a three-volume International Economics: An Encyclopedia of Global Trade, Capital, Labor, Technology, and Innovation (Greenwood, 2014). He is currently an editor of the Journal of Critical Studies in Business and Society.