Dr Hanna Szymborska

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Birmingham City Business School

Email:: Hanna.Szymborska@bcu.ac.uk

Hanna joined Birmingham City Business School in 2019. Prior to this, she worked as a lecturer in economics at the Open University.

She holds PhD from the University of Leeds, specialising in inequality, financialisation, and economic policy through the lens of heterodox schools of thought, using theoretical macroeconomic models as well as parametric and non-parametric quantitative methods.

Hanna is committed to promoting pluralism and inclusivity in economics. She sits on the Executive Board of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics, the Advisory Board of the Women’s Budget Group Early-Career Network, the Section Editors Board of E-Finanse Journal, and the Editorial Board of The Mint Magazine. She is a member of Reteaching Economics.

Hanna has worked with the UK Civil Service as Assistant Economist and has also contributed to policy reports, collaborating with Think-tank Action for Social Change (TASC).

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Memberships

Teaching

Research

Postgraduate Supervision

Publications

Journal articles

Szymborska, H.K. (2020) “Are wealth taxes the panacea for the ills of capitalism?”, Aspen Review Central Europe, No. 01/2020.

Szymborska, H.K. “Wealth structures and income distribution of US households before and after the Great Recession”, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, vol. 51, December, pp. 168-185.

Szymborska, H.K. (2019) “Under the Hood of Recovery – Rethinking the State of Contemporary Capitalism”, Aspen Review Central Europe, No. 02/2019. Available at: https://bit.ly/2xhDrOd.

Szymborska, H.K. (2016) "Financial Sector Transformation and Income Inequality – an Empirical Approach", E-Finanse Financial Internet Quarterly, 12(2), pp. 36-48.

Review of J. Hills et al. Wealth in the UK: Distribution, Accumulation and Policy, Oxford University Press 2013, published in Economic Issues, Vol. 19, Part 2, September 2014. Available at: https://bit.ly/2X0TvmQ.

Book Chapters

Szymborska, H.K. “Rentier income”. In: Rochon, L.P. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Post-Keynesian Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (forthcoming).

Szymborska, H.K. (2019) “How can policy tackle inequality in the 21st century?”. In: Monvoisin, V. and Rochon L. (eds.) Finance, Growth and Inequality: Post Keynesian Perspectives, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Szymborska, H.K. (2019) “Wealth Inequality in the European Union”. In: Sweeney, R., and Wilson, R. (eds.) Cherishing All Equally 2019 Report, Dublin: Think-tank Action for Social Change.

Szymborska, H.K. (2018) “Financialisation and Economic Inequality in Latin America”. In: Levy, N. and Bustamante, J. (eds.) Challenges of Financialisation in the Latin American Export-led Growth Model, Abingdon: Routledge.

Szymborska, H.K. (2017) "Inequality in the Twenty-First Century – in Need of a New Theory?". In: Opolski, K. and Gemzik-Salwach, A., eds, Financialisation and the Economy, Abingdon: Routledge.

Szymborska, H.K. (2017) "Luxemburg and the Balance of Power in the 21st Century". In: Delheim, J. and Wolf, F.O., eds. Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Szymborska, H.K. and Toporowski, J. (2014) "'Dr. Kalecki' on Mr Keynes". In: Toporowski, J. and Mamica, Ł., eds. (2014) Michał Kalecki in the 21st Century, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Co-translator and co-editor of Kowalik, T. (2014) Rosa Luxemburg Theory of accumulation and imperialism, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.