Department of Economics
Kevin Gawora
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Department of Economics PhD Student in Economics GTA for Microeconomic Analysis President of Economic History Reading Group
- Department
- Department of Economics
- Qualifications
- B.A. Economics and Diplomacy and World Affairs (Occidental College), M.A. International Economics and Finance (Johns Hopkins University - School of Advanced International Studies)
- Email address
- 723709@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Locked Into Shock: China, Market Reform Debates and Why Poland Could Not Escape Shock Therapy.
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Daniela Gabor
Biography
Kevin Gawora is a PhD Student in Economics at SOAS University of London.
Kevin’s research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics, political economy, economic development and economic history with the objective of understanding how to improve the efficiency, sustainability and equity of economic development policies and to better analyse how the government can improve economic outcomes.
His dissertation, based off of Isabella Weber’s book How China Could Not Escape Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate, seeks to understand the economic and political economic reasons behind why, in the 1980s, Poland could not or did not make Chinese-style marketization reforms. It seeks to do this from both the neoclassical as well as heterodox perspectives, with a focus on Oskar Lange and Michal Kalecki.
He is also a graduate teaching assistant for Microeconomic Analysis. Before SOAS, Kevin lived in Washington D.C., where his master’s thesis examined the institutional and economic factors behind diverging growth paths between Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union after the fall of Communism. After graduate school, he worked for the International Monetary Fund, a think tank, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and founded his own consultancy, Holan Economic Research. After SOAS, Kevin hopes to work for UNDP or the World Bank, with an eventual path to academia.
Research interests
- Macroeconomic Growth
- Economic Development
- Political Economy
- Economic History
- Comparative Economic Systems
