In teaching I emphasize pluralism of approaches and understanding of economic issues in historical and systems perspectives. Since I came to Wright State in 2006, I have been teaching mainly Institutional Economics; Economic, Social and Ecological Systems; Principles of Macroeconomics; Economic, Social, and Business Issues; Political Economy of Women; and Development of Economic Thought.

My research is on: institutions and social stratification; macroeconomic policy; consumption as a social process; money and feminist political economy; Job Guarantee; care; and the writings of Thorstein Veblen.

Ongoing research projects include:1) social context of money and diverse economic relations such as debt-credit, exchange, gift, reciprocity, and obligation; 2) a feminist perspective on job guarantee policy; 3) a critique of  “sound finance” and “commodity money” and an updated feminist and institutionalist understanding of functional finance and public economics; 4) a non-dualistic conceptualization of the economy as social provisioning and developing the concepts of social processes; 5) institutions, oppression, and social stratification; 6) a feminist development of Karl Polanyi’s analysis of labor, nature, and money for a contemporary understanding of transnational households, global migrant work, care, remittances, and environmental degradation; 7) a better understanding of conspicuous consumption and developing analyses of consumption as a social process; and 8) and Thorstein Veblen’s writings and theory in contemporary contexts.

In 2007 I was honored to receive the International Veblen Prize awarded jointly by the European Association for Political Economy and the Association for Evolutionary Economics in celebration of Thorstein Veblen's 150^th birthday.  My first book was Money and Households in a Capitalist Economy: a Gendered Post Keynesian-Institutional Approach (Edward Elgar 2009). I co-edited a volume (with Dr. Tae-Hee Jo) Advancing Frontiers of Heterodox Economics – Essays in Honor of Frederic S. Lee (Routledge, 2015).

I have been active in service to the economics profession, heterodox economics organizations, and journals. I served as the president of the Association for Institutional Thought (2016), and organized the association's conference program in 2015 under the theme of: Institutionalism: History, Theory, and Futures. I have enjoyed organizing panels, in efforts to build bridges across heterodox economics approaches.

As the Chair of the Economics Department (summer 2017 to summer 2020), I supported and promoted the economics curriculum, faculty, and students, and expanded alumni relations.

Learn more here: https://www.ztodorova.net/.