ABOUT

the Authors

This website was created by Jason Brennan, William English, John Hasnas, and Peter Jaworski, who together constitute the core ethics faculty at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics. Together, they are the authors of Business Ethics for Better Behavior (Oxford University Press, 2021.)


  • Jason Brennan

    Jason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. He is the author of sixteen books, which have been translated twenty-nine times into fifteen languages. His research and teaching concerns topics in politics, philosophy, and economics (PPE), business-government relations, perverse incentive problems in non-profit management, the moral foundations of market economies, and taboo markets.

  • William English

    William English his Assistant Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. He has authored papers in political science, economics, and business ethics. His research and teaching concerns topics in ethics, education, institutional change, and the methodological foundations of the social sciences.

  • John Hasnas

    John Hasnas is Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business, and (by courtesy) Professor of Law, at Georgetown University. He is the author of two books and dozens of papers in philosophy and law. His research and teaching concerns topics torts, corporate criminal liability, business ethics, and regulation.

  • Peter Jaworski

    Peter Jaworski is Associate Teaching Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business. He is the author of two books and many papers in philosophy journals. His research and teaching concerns ethical leadership, taboo markets (especially markets in blood plasma), and theories of property.