Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Franklin Obeng-Odoom is a Ghanaian-Australian political economist, specialising in urban and regional economics, political economy of development, stratification economics, and the political economy of natural resources. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academy of Social Sciences.^[1]

Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Born	1981 Cape Coast, Ghana
Occupation	Professor and author
Nationality	Ghanaian-Australian
Subject	Political Economy Urban Economics Economic Sociology Land Economy
Notable awards	Joan Robinson Prize 2021

Early life and education

Obeng-Odoom was born in Ghana. He completed his bachelor's degree in land economy in Ghana before studying urban economic development in England and political economy in Australia.^[2]

Career

Obeng-Odoom was a researcher at Global Poverty Project, Australia.^[3] He then taught at the University of Sydney as a Teaching Fellow^[3] before becoming a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Property Economics at the University of Technology Sydney.^[3]

Obeng-Odoom was Associate Professor of Social Sustainability of Urban Transformations in the Global South,^[4] at Global Development Studies and the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science in Finland. In 2021, he became a Docent in Sociology (Urban and Economic Sociology)^[4] at the University of Turku.^[5]

Currently, Obeng-Odoom is Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.^[5] Obeng-Odoom serves as an Associate Editor of the Forum for Social Economics and Series Editor of Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy.^[6]

Selected publications

• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2011). "The Informal Sector in Ghana Under Siege". Journal of Developing Societies. 27 (3/4): 355–392. doi:10.1177/0169796X1102700406. hdl:10453/18737.
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2015). "Africa: On the rise, but to where?". Forum for Social Economics. 44 (3): 234–250. doi:10.1080/07360932.2014.955040. hdl:10453/30276.
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2023). "Rethinking Development Economics: Problems and Prospects of Georgist Political Economy". Review of Political Economy. 35 (1): 316–333. doi:10.1080/09538259.2021.1928334.

Books

• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2014). Oiling the urban economy: land, labour, capital, and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. Routledge studies in international real estate. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-74409-6.^[7][8]
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2016). Reconstructing urban economics: towards a political economy of the built environment. London: Zed Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78360-659-7. OCLC 936144105.^[9]
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2020). Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa. Cambridge studies in stratification economics. Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-49199-0.
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2021). The commons in an age of uncertainty: decolonizing nature, economy, and society. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-0176-1. OCLC 1145338068.^[10]
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2022). Global migration beyond limits: ecology, economics, and political economy. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-886718-0. OCLC 1261879995.^[11]