Sahar Akhtar

Associate Professor, Practice

Sahar Akhtar is an Associate Professor, Practice, with the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Duke University.

Books

Oxford University Press

Immigration and Discrimination (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Are states are morally permitted to use for their admission decisions and policies, and why?

Publications

December 18, 2023 • Review of Austrian Economics

“Behavioral Economics and the Problem of Altruism” The Review of Austrian Economics, December, 2023

By Sahar Akhtar

April 18, 2022 • Ethics

“Race Beyond our Borders: Is Racial and Ethnic Immigration Selection Always Morally Wrong?”

By Sahar Akhtar