Mohammad Maljoo

Mohammad Maljoo, born in 1972 in Tehran, is an economist, translator, and researcher in political economy and the economic history of Iran. He studied at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Tehran and received his PhD in Economics from the same university in 2004. Maljoo taught at Allameh Tabataba'i University from 2005 to 2009 and also worked for a time at the Tehran Institute for Economic Research.

He has been a visiting researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. Maljoo is best known for his critical research on Iran's political economy, the social history of labor, post-revolution economic policies, the workforce, poverty, property, and the relationship between economics and power.

Maljoo's main focus is on political economy, the economic and social history of Iran, the critique of neoliberalism, labor history, mechanisms of dispossession, inequality, unproductive sectors of the economy, and the interplay of politics, ideology, and economics. In his recent historical works, he has turned to micro-narratives of the lives of the underclass, migrants, workers, and the poor in contemporary Iran.