Barbara Beinstein

Graduate student in socioeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration - currently working on her thesis on radical institutionalist contributions to poverty research; Research associate, Institute for the Environment and Regional Development (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration).

Skills mobilised

Barbara Beinstein contributes expertise in poverty research and heterodox economics; her main focus lies on the eclectic analysis of inequality; her recent areas of research include poverty/social justice; future development pathways of the social sciences and humanities (FP6 project SSH-FUTURES); community conflicts (FP 6 project PEACECOM); regional development; the role of trust in institutions in transition economies; and diverse heterodox economic approaches; she has worked on different EU-funded projects for two years.