Mark Pennington is Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College, University of London. His published books include Planning and the Political Market: Public Choice and the Politics of Government Failure (2001), Liberating the Land (2002), and, most recently, Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy (2011). His research interests include democratic theory, the economics and ethics of environmental protection, and comparative political economy. He is currently European Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics.
Vernon L. Smith is Professor of Economics and Law, George L. Argyros Endowed Chair in Finance and Economics at Chapman University. Formerly he has held faculty positions at Purdue University, Brown University, University of Massachusetts, University of Arizona, and George Mason University. He was named Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2002 in recognition of his research in experimental economics beginning at Purdue. His recent interest in Adam Smith’s model of human sociability has stemmed from experimental research in environments where there is no external enforcement of property rights.
Bart J. Wilson is Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law at Chapman University’s Economic Science Institute. He is currently using experimental economics in his research to examine the foundations of exchange and specialization as well as the origin and morality of property rights systems that undergird trade. Prior to joining the faculty at Chapman, he was Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and before that a Research Scientist at the Economic Science Laboratory at the University of Arizona and an Economist at the Federal Trade Commission.
Lawrence H. White is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Distinguished Senior Fellow of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center. His latest books are The Clash of Economic Ideas (2012) and (as co-editor) Renewing the Search for a Monetary Constitution (2015). Best known for his work on free banking, he is also author of The Theory of Monetary Institutions (1999), Free Banking in Britain (2nd ed., 1995), and Competition and Currency (1989). His research on monetary theory and banking history has appeared in American Economic Review, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and other leading economics journals. His popular writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere.
Gerald Gaus is James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, where he directs the program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. He is the author of a number of books, including The Order of Public Reason (2011), Justificatory Liberalism (1996), and Value and Justification (1990). His most recent book is The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society (2016).
Shaun Nichols is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His research is at the intersection of philosophy and psychology, and it has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Templeton Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. He has published the books Sentimental Rules (2004) and (with S. Stich) Mindreading (2003), and over a hundred articles in edited volumes and in journals such as Journal of Philosophy, Nous, Journal of Cognition and Culture, and Science.
Linda Radzik is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. The author of Making Amends: Atonement in Morality, Law, and Politics (2009), her research addresses moral, legal, and political issues that emerge in the aftermath of wrongdoing. She has published on topics such as forgiveness, criminal punishment, and political reconciliation. Radzik’s most recent work explores bystanders’ reactions to wrongdoing, including the ethics of minding one’s own business. She was the recipient of research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2004-05 and 2011.
James R. Otteson is Professor of Economics, Executive Director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, and the Thomas W. Smith Presidential Chair in Business Ethics at Wake Forest University. He is the author of several books, including The End of Socialism (2014), Adam Smith (2013), Actual Ethics (2006), and Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life (2002), as well as a number of chapters in edited volumes. His published papers appear in journals such as Issues, Society, Journal of Social Philosophy, and Public Affairs Quarterly.
Jeffrey D. Grynaviski is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University. He has held academic appointments at the University of Chicago and the University of Connecticut, and is the past recipient of a Wayne State University Career Development Chair and a Howard Foundation Fellowship. He is the author of Partisan Bonds: Political Reputations and Legislative Accountability (2010), and has a number of published papers that appear in journals such as American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and elsewhere. His research and teaching focus on American political parties, the U.S. Congress, electoral politics, and quantitative research methods.
Michael C. Munger is Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at Duke University. He has held previous positions at the Federal Trade Commission, Dartmouth College, University of Texas, and University of North Carolina. He is a past President of the Public Choice Society. Among his numerous publications, he is coeditor (with Jonathan Anomaly, Geoffrey Brennan, and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord ) of the collection Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: An Anthology (2015), coauthor (with Kevin Munger) of Choosing in Groups (2015), and author of Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practice (2000). His articles appear in journals such as Journal of Value Inquiry, Review of Austrian Economics, Independent Review, Georgetown Review of Law and Public Policy, and Public Choice. Much of his recent work has focused on the nature of voluntary exchange.
Jonathan Wolff is Blavatnik Chair of Public Policy at Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. He is a political philosopher who works on questions of equality, disadvantage, and social justice. His work in recent years has also turned to applied topics such as public safety, disability, and the regulation of recreational drugs, which he has discussed in his books Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry (2011) and The Human Right to Health (2012). Earlier works include Disadvantage (2007), with Avner de-Shalit; An Introduction to Political Philosophy (1996, third edition 2016); Why Read Marx Today? (2002); and Robert Nozick (1991). His current work concerns social equality and social exclusion. He also writes a monthly column on higher education for the Guardian.
Miriam Ronzoni is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. Her main interests and publications concern global justice, global institutional design, republicanism, the normative implications of global economic integration, and methodological issues in political philosophy. She is editor of the collections Global Political Justice (2013; with Terry MacDonald) and Social Justice, Global Dynamics: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (2011; with Ayelet Banai and Christian Schemmel), and is the author of papers published in journals including European Journal of Political Theory, Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Political Studies. She is also an editor of the electronic journal Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric.
Alan Hamlin is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester and Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College, London. He was previously Professor of Economics and Dean of Law, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of Southampton, held visiting posts at the Australian National University, The Center for Study of Public Choice, Virginia, and All Souls College, Oxford, and served as a member of the UK Competition Authority. He is the author (with Geoffrey Brennan) of Democratic Devices and Desires (2000) and has written widely at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics with a recent focus on work on expressive political behavior, constitutional political economy, and conservatism.
Kevin Vallier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (2014) and the forthcoming book Must Politics Be War? In Defense of Public Reason Liberalism (2017). He has a number of papers either published or forthcoming in journals such as Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Social Theory and Practice, and Journal of Moral Philosophy. His main areas of work are within political philosophy and ethics, with strong additional interests in philosophy of religion. His current research focuses on public reason and political economy.
Ryan Muldoon is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Previously he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also a core author of the 2015 World Development Report at the World Bank. His primary research investigates how we can turn the challenge of increasing diversity into a resource to be tapped for our mutual benefit. Specifically, he investigates how diversity can lead to more just societies, to an increase in the quality of scientific production, and to greater wealth. He also works on social and behavioral aspects of development policy.
Ryan Patrick Hanley is Mellon Distinguished Professor in Political Science at Marquette University. He is the author of Love’s Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity (2016), and Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (2009), and his edited volumes include Adam Smith: His Life, Thought and Legacy (2016), the Penguin Classics edition of Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments (2010), and (with Darrin M. McMahon) The Enlightenment: Critical Concepts in History, 5 vols. (2010). He is currently completing two projects: a monograph on the political philosophy of Fénelon, and a volume of translations of Fénelon’s moral and political writings.
