James R Otteson

What Adam Smith Knew: Moral Lessons on Capitalism from Its Greatest Champions and Fiercest Opponents James R Otteson

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: James R. Otteson is the executive director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, and teaching professor of political economy at Wake Forest University. He received his B. A. from Notre Dame and his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. His published works include "Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life" (Cambridge, 2002) and "Actual Ethics" (Cambridge, 2006), the latter of which won the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award. His most recent book is "Adam Smith" (Bloomsbury, 2013). His next book, "The End of Socialism," will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. Contributor Bio:  Otteson, James R James Otteson is associate professor in and chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. The author of Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life, he has held research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, at the Centre for the Study of Scottish Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, and at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has also received grants from the University of Alabama, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Earhart Foundation.