Mark D. White

Not very much–being department chair involves meeting after meeting, which doesn't leave much energy at the end of the day for writing, creativity, or wakefulness. Nonetheless, I have to learn to manage this somehow, as I have things I need (and even want) to do…

There have been some interesting developments, however, if not progress:

• I have a new post at Psychology Today that did rather well: "Is It More Important to Be Good for Someone or Right for Someone?"–and one comment to it may lead to another PT post soon. (I love when that happens–most of my commenters at PT are fantastic, and they give me lots of ideas for future posts.)
• My synopsis of my book Kantian Ethics and Economics: Autonomy, Dignity, and Character appeared at The Montréal Review, titled "Returning Dignity to Economics."
• A review of my edited book Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy appeared in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (from Rutgers).
• Another review, this time of my edited book Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics, appeared in the Eastern Economic Journal. (Also, plans for a mini-conference at St. John's University School of Law to celebrate and discuss the book are moving forward nicely.)
• And regarding yet another edited book, Oxford University Press gave me and my co-editor Chrisoula Andreou official word that the paperback edition of The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination will be published this coming winter.

As for what I'm working on now: a paper on moral compromise for the upcoming Southern Economic Association conference in Washington in mid-November, and a blog post on gender roles that I hope will appear (somewhere) in a week.