Galal Ahmad Amin (Arabic: جلال أمين; 1935 – 25 September 2018) was a professor of economics at the American University in Cairo and Egyptian economist and commentator.
After a year's teaching at UCLA in 1978–1979, Amin joined the American University in Cairo.
Historian Albert Hourani describes Amin's writing as "forceful," particularly his argument in Mihnat al- iqtisad wa’l-thaqafa fi Misr (The Plight of the Economy and Culture in Egypt), among his better known books, which:"...tried to trace the connections between the infitah and a crisis of culture.
The Egyptian and other Arab peoples had lost confidence in themselves...the infitah, and indeed the whole movement of events since the Egyptian revolution of 1952, had rested on an unsound basis: the false values of a consumer society in economic life, the domination of a ruling élite instead of genuine patriotic loyalty.
To be healthy, their political and economic life should be derived from their own moral values, which themselves could have no basis except in religion.