Speakers
 

Elizabeth Anderson (Philosophy, University of Michigan) [Website]

Elizabeth Anderson is the John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research has focused on democratic theory, equality in political philosophy and American law, the ethical limits of markets, theories of value and rational choice (alternatives to consequentialism and economic theories of rational choice), the philosophies of John Stuart Mill and John Dewey, and feminist epistemology and philosophy of science. She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (Harvard University Press, 1993) and is currently writing a book on the ideal of ethno-racial integration in democratic theory, paying special attention to African-Americans and Latinos in the United States, and Muslims in Europe.

Marc Fleurbaey (CNRS, CERSES-University Paris 5, France) [Website]

Marc Fleurbaey is senior researcher at CNRS, Paris and Lachmann Fellow at the LSE. Most of his publications are about social choice, welfare economics, tax policy and distributive justice.

Nancy Folbre (Economics, University of Massachusetts) [Website]

Nancy Folbre is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and an Associate Editor of the journal Feminist Economics. Recent books include The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New Press, 2001), Family Time: The Social Organization of Care, co-edited with Michael Bittman (Routledge, 2004) and The New and Revised Field Guide to the U.S. Economy (New Press, 2006). Her current research projects explore valuation of time devoted to unpaid work and policy issues related to the "care sector" of the U.S. economy.

Dan Hausman (Philosophy, University of Wisconsin) [Website]

Dan Hausman is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His expertise lies mainly in the philosophy of economics. He is one of the founding editors of the journal Economics and Philosophy and the author or editor of several books on philosophy of economics including Capital, Profits and Prices, The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics and (jointly with Michael McPherson) Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy. He has also written extensively concerning causation. His current research focuses on the measurement of health and the ethics of health-related resource allocation.

Susan Mayer (Public Policy, University of Chicago) [Website]

Susan E. Mayer is dean and an associate professor at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and at the College at the University of Chicago, and is the past director of the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research. She also serves as a faculty affiliate with the University's Center for Human Potential and Public Policy. Mayer received her Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University in 1986. She was a research associate at the Institute for Policy Studies at Northwestern University before joining the faculty of the Harris School in 1989.

Mayer is the author of several articles and book chapters on the measurement of poverty, the consequences for poor children of growing up in poor neighborhoods, and the effect of income on children's well-being and the social and political consequences of economic inequality and segregation. She is the author of the book, What Money Can't Buy: Family Income and Children's Life Chances (Harvard University Press) and co-editor with Paul Peterson of the book, Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter (Brookings Institution Press). Mayer's current research is on the effect of economic mobility across generations and the role of non-cognitive skills on social and economic success.

Ann Phillips (Gender Institute and Government Department, London School of Economics) [Website]

Ann Phillips has been Professor of Gender Theory at the London School of Economics since 1999, and holds a joint appointment between the Gender Institute and the Government Department. From 1999-2004, she was Director of the Gender Institute. Her research interests cover normative and feminist political theory, particularly issues of equality, difference, democracy, political representation, and multiculturalism. Her publications include: Which Equalities Matter? (1999), The Politics of Presence (1995), Democracy and Difference (1993), and Engendering Democracy (1991). She has recently edited, with John Dryzek and Bonnie Honig, The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (OUP, 2006). Her book on Multiculturalism without Culture will be published next year by Princeton. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.

John Roemer (Political Science, Yale University) [Website]

John Roemer is the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University. His current work concerns distributive justice, political economy, and the relationship between them. Recent books are Democracy, Education and Equality (Cambridge UP, 2006), Political Competition (Harvard UP, 2001), Equality of Opportunity (Harvard UP, 1998), Theories of Distributive Justice (Harvard UP, 1996), and A Future for Socialism (Harvard UP, 1994). His collaborative book, with Woojin Lee and Karine Van der Straeten, tentatively entitled Racism, Xenophobia, and Redistribution is forthcoming at Harvard UP, to be co-published with Russell Sage. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and a past fellow of the Guggenheim and Russell Sage Foundations.

Debra Satz (Philosophy, Stanford University) [Website]

Debra Satz is Associate Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also Director of the interdisciplinary program in Ethics in Society. She teaches courses in ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of the social sciences. Within these fields, her research has focused on the ethical limits of markets, theories of rational choice, democratic theory, feminist philosophy, and issues of international justice. Her articles have appeared in Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, the Journal of Philosophy and the World Bank Economic Review.

Bertil Tungodden (Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) [Website]

Bertil Tungodden is a Professor in Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and a Researcher at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. He is editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy and managing coordinator of the website "Equality Exchange." His research has mainly been in the areas of distributive justice, welfare economics, experimental economics and development economics. His articles have appeared in Journal of Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, Economic Theory, Social Choice and Welfare, and a number of other international journals. He has also edited the book Towards Pro-Poor Policies: Aid, Institutions and Globalization.

Jonathan Wolff (Philosophy, University College, London) [Website]

Jonathan Wolff is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at University College London. He is the author of Robert Nozick: Property Justice and the Minimal State (Polity Press and Stanford University Press 1991), An Introduction to Political Philosophy (OUP 1996), Political Thought (OUP 1999, edited with Michael Rosen), Why Read Marx Today? (OUP 2003), and is currently co-authoring a book on Disadvantage with Avner de-Shalit (forthcoming with OUP), which attempts to provide a model of a society of equals bringing together both abstract philosophical theory and concrete social policy. Other major research projects include the philosophical analysis of public policy, the regulation of safety, and the ethical treatment of animals. He was a member of the Gambling Review Body (2000-1), and the Nuffield Council Working Party on the Ethics of Research Involving Animals (2004-5). He currently sits on the Academy of Medical Science Committee on Brain Science Drugs and Addiction, the Home Office Homicide Review Group, and the steering committee of the Accounting for Sustainability Group.