Roger E. Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham. He is author of The Ordinary Business of Life/The Penguin History of Economics (2002) and an editor (with Bradley W. Bateman) of The Cambridge Companion to Keynes (2006).

Dan W. Brock is the Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics in the Harvard Medical School, where he directs the Division of Medical Ethics and the University Program in Ethics and Health. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine. His most recent book is From Chance to Choice: Justice and Genetics (with Allen Buchanan, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler). His current research focuses on ethical issues in the use of cost-effectiveness analysis for health resource prioritization.

Peter Dietsch is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the Université de Montréal. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the London School of Economics. He works on distributive justice and the philosophy of economics, currently focusing on a normative evaluation of tax competition. His publications include articles in the Journal of Social Philosophy and the Journal of Moral Philosophy.

Jonathan Grose was awarded his PhD in philosophy in 2008 from the University of Bristol. His thesis examined the coevolution of cooperation and signalling via emotional responses. He has lectured in philosophy of science and of social science at the universities of Bristol and Gloucestershire. Email: jonathan.grose@bristol.ac.uk

Daniel Hausman is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a founding editor of this journal and is the author of Capital, Profits and Prices (1981), The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics (1992), Causal Asymmetries (1998) and (jointly with Michael McPherson) Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy (2006). His current research focuses on the measurement of health and the moral significance of health inequalities.

Serge-Christophe Kolm's work provided the bases of modern developments of Public Economics (a term he coined), Normative Economics, the Economics of Inequality, the economic analysis of social sentiments, the psychology of welfare, and choice under risk. His ideas were applied to the analysis of the public or regulated firm; optimum distribution, taxation and transfers; principles of economic justice; environmental policy; the economics or reciprocity, giving and altruism; and other issues. He is currently Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and member of the Institute of Public Economics.

Michael S. Lawlor is a Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University. He is the author of The Economics of Keynes in Historical Context: An Intellectual History of the General Theory (Macmillan-Palgrave, 2006).

Michael S. McPherson is President of the Spencer Foundation. Prior to joining Spencer he served as President of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota for seven years. He is a nationally known economist whose expertise focuses on the interplay between education and economics. McPherson, who is co-author and editor of several books, including College Access: Opportunity or Privilege?, Keeping College Affordable and Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy, was founding co-editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy.

Erik Schokkaert is Professor of Public Economics and Welfare Economics at the Department of Economics at KULeuven, director of the Centre for Economics and Ethics at KULeuven and research associate at CORE (UCLouvain). His research focuses on (a) the theoretical modelling of different concepts of distributive justice; (b) the empirical analysis of opinions about justice in the population; and (c) the application of these theories for the analysis of specific policy problems in the spheres of health insurance, social security and taxation.

David Teira is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science (UNED, Madrid) and research associate of the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation. Email: dteira@fsof.uned.es

Raimo Tuomela is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. His current main field of research is the philosophy of sociality and social action. Recent books: The Importance of Us, Stanford, 1995; Cooperation, Kluwer, 2000; The Philosophy of Social Practices, Cambridge, 2002; The Philosophy of Sociality, Oxford.

Jonathan Wolff is Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health, at University College London. His books include An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Oxford, 1996, 2006) and, with Avner de-Shalit, Disadvantage (Oxford, 2007). He is currently working on a number of areas in the interface between political philosophy and public policy, including distributive justice and health.