Mark D. White

Writer, editor, teacher

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I’m a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where I teach courses in philosophy, economics, and law, and the author/editor/co-editor of several books.

Category: Economic theory

  • That oldtime utilitarian economics (no, thank you) [UPDATED AGAIN]

    Mark D. White The Wall Street Journal today features a paean to A.C. Pigou and good old-fashioned utilitarian economics, written by John Cassidy, author of How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities. To Cassidy's (or the editors') credit, statements from other economists (such as Milton Friedman and Ludwig von Mises) are included for counterpoint,…

  • Welcome to the Economics and Ethics blog!

    Welcome to Economics and Ethics, a new group academic blog which we hope will allow us—and you, our readers and commenters—to: Showcase and discuss new work in ethics-and-economics by scholars around the world, Discuss ways to include treatments of ethics in economics education, Announce new projects and initiatives in ethics-and-economics, including calls for papers for…