Professor of Economics at University of California, San Diego
Personal WebsiteEli Berman is professor of economics at UC San Diego, research director for international security studies at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, member of the Empirical Studies of Conflict project, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His book Radical, Religious and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism was published in 2009 by the MIT Press. Berman received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. His research interests include economic development and conflict, the economics of religion, labor economics, technological change, economic demography, and applied econometrics.