Sahar Milani, PhD

Dr. Sahar Milani is an innovation economist, heavy metal music enthusiast, and associate professor at St. Lawrence University. Her research interests include environmental economics, macroeconomics, and the financing of innovation. Her work has been published in a variety of academic journals including Research Policy, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Environmental & Resource Economics, and Economics Bulletin. She has written for Inomics.com, a career website for economists, and regularly provides expert commentary for personal finance websites such as Wallethub and MoneyGeek. In her blog, Metalnomics.com, she explores metal music and culture from a social science perspective. She received her PhD in economics at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.