Faculty

Faculty at recent Career Development Seminars have included:

John Tomasi 
Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown University

John Tomasi is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he specializes in political theory and ethics and public policy. He has a B.A. from Colby College, an M.A. from the University of Arizona, and a B. Phil. and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in philosophy. Professor Tomasi held a previous teaching appointment at Stanford University and has been a research fellow at Harvard University, Princeton's University Center for Human Values and the Social Philosophy & Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. His work has appeared in journals such as Ethics, The Journal of Philosophy and Political Theory. Professor Tomasi is the author of Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens Society and the Boundaries of Political Theory (Princeton University Press, 2001) and is currently writing a book entitled Global Federalism: Normative Foundations of Global Political Order.

Chris Coyne
Assistant Professor of Economics, West Virginia University

Christopher Coyne is an Assistant Professor of Economics at West Virginia University.  He is also the North American Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics, a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center and at The Independent Institute, a member of the Board of Scholars for the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, a member of the Advisory Board of The Cobden Centre, and Distinguished Scholar for the Center for the Study of Political Economy at Hampden-Sydney College. In 2008, he was named the Hayek Fellow at the London School of Economics.  Coyne is the author of After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy (2007, Stanford University Press), Media, Development and Institutional Change (co-authored with Peter Leeson, 2009, Edward Elgar Publishing), and numerous academic articles.  He received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University.

Art Carden
Economics and Business, Rhodes College

Art Carden’s research interests include economic history, new institutional economics, development economics, applied labor economics, and microeconomics. He is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Business at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.  In addition, Carden is an Adjunct Fellow with the Independent Institute, a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a scholar with the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. »»

James Otteson
Philosophy and Economics, Yeshiva University

Dr. James R. Otteson specializes in the history of modern philosophy, political philosophy, and the history and philosophy of economics. He currently teaches at Yeshiva University and previously at Georgetown University and at the University of Alabama. He is also the Charles G. Koch Senior Fellow at the Fund for American Studies in Washington, DC.He has received the Templeton Enterprise Award and a Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Order Prize. He received his BA from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD from the University of Chicago. His publications include Adam Smith, Adam Smith's Marketplace Of Life, and Actual Ethics.

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