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Ryan Doody
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political EconomyRyan Doody is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Economy at Brown University. Previously he held positions at the University of San Diego, UNC Chapel Hill, the University of Groningen, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ryan received his PhD in philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work deals with questions of rationality and value. He has a specialism in decision theory. Ryan's current research focuses on incommensurability, social risk, and public policy.
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Simone Gubler
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political EconomySimone Gubler is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Economy at Brown University. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of Nevada, Reno. Originally trained as a lawyer in her home country of Australia, Simone received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. Her philosophical work addresses questions at the intersection of moral psychology, normative ethics, political theory, and the philosophy of law. She has a particular interest in the relationship between morality and public institutions and the ways in which moral and economic thought intersect. She is currently working on a book project that offers novel philosophical justifications for New Deal policies like the minimum wage and limited working week. Another strand of her research deals with the concept of forgiveness. Against the prevailing view that forgiveness is a positive value, Simone urges a skeptical attitude.
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Emily Skarbek
Associate Professor, Research, Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Research SeminarEmily Skarbek is Associate Research Professor in the Political Theory Project at Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University in 2009. Her research examines civil society, governance, and history of economic thought. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Public Choice, Journal of Institutional Economics, and American Journal of Economics and Sociology. In 2014, she was awarded the annual Gordon Tullock prize for best article published in Public Choice by a junior scholar. She is also a contributing author to several books including After Katrina: The Political Economy of Disaster and Community Rebound and Hayek and the Modern World.
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Governing Board
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Prudence Carter
Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professor of Sociology at Brown University -
Francis Doyle
Frank Doyle is a professor of Engineering and the 14th provost of Brown University. -
David Estlund
Lombardo Professor of the Humanities, Philosophy -
Stelios Michalopoulos
Eastman Professor of Political Economy at Brown University, a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Research Fellow of the CEPR -
Eric Patashnik
Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science, Chair of Political Science -
Melvin Rogers
Associate Director, Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Political Science -
David Skarbek
Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Michael Targoff Professor of Political Economy -
Karin Wulf
Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian, John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History, Brown University