Faculty Member, Department of Sociology
University of Cambridge, Economics
Doctoral candidate
About
Adel Daoud is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has studied graduate and under-graduate courses in economics, political science, and mathematics. He has during 2010 been hosted by the visiting scholar program of the Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, financed by STINT.
Preliminary thesis titel: Scarcity, Abundance, and Sufficiency: Contributions to Economics and Sociology. Adel Daoud’s research comprises the study of the concept of scarcity, abundance and sufficiency in economics and sociology. One of the main interests is to bring these disciplines closer together through the development of these concepts. This includes both theoretical studies (classical texts by Carl Menger, Lionel Robbins, Emile Durkheim as well as modern schools such as ecological economics) in addition to empirical investigations (consumerism, famines etc.). Another research interest, in proximity to this general program, includes the philosophy of science.
Recent publications
• Daoud, A. (2007) '(Quasi)Scarcity and Global Hunger: A Sociological Critique of the Scarcity Postulate with an Effort to Synthesis', Journal of Critical Realism 6 (2), pp. 199-225
• Daoud, A (forthcoming 2010), “Robbins and Malthus on Scarcity, Abundance, and Sufficiency: The Missing Sociocultural Element” will appear in the November 2010 issue of American Journal of Economics and Sociology
• Daoud, A (forthcoming) “The Modus Vivendi of Material Simplicity: Counteracting Scarcity via the Deflation of Wants”, Review of Social Economy
