James Otteson
James R. Otteson received a BA from the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, an MA in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and an AM and PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago. He has taught previously at Georgetown University and at the University of Alabama. He is currently joint professor of philosophy and economics at Yeshiva University in New York, and the Charles G. Koch Senior Fellow at the Fund for American Studies in Washington, DC. He is author of Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life (Cambridge, 2002) and Actual Ethics (Cambridge, 2006), the latter of which won the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award. He is also the editor of The Levellers: Overton, Walwyn, and Lilburne, 5 vols. (Continuum, 2003) and of Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings (Imprint Academic, 2004). His book Adam Smithwill be published by Continuum Press in 2010.
