GEOFFREY BRENNAN Research Professor

An economist by training, Geoffrey Brennan works actively on issues at the intersection of economics, rationality, and political philosophy. A visitor in the Department in the Fall of 2003, he will be returning on a regular basis for a semester a year for (at least) five years. Among other things, he will be working to establish a UNC-Duke joint program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PP&E). Brennan is the author of nine books, including, with James Buchanan, The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (1985); with Loren Lomasky, Democracy and Decision: the Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (1993); with Alan Hamlin, Democratic Devices and Desires (2000) and most recently, with Philip Pettit, The Economy of Esteem (forthcoming). He is also the author of over 100 articles.  Sample publications: "Pareto Optimal Redistribution: The Case of Malice and Envy," Journal of Public Economics (1972); "Pareto Optimal Redistribution: The Non-Altruistic Dimension," Public Choice (1973); "The Normative Purpose of Economic Science," (with Buchanan) International Review of Law and Economics (1981); "Restrictive Consequentialism," (with Pettit) Australasian Journal of Philosophy (1986); "Methodological Individualism Under Fire," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation (1987); "The Political Economy of Communist Reform," Public Choice Studies (1991); "Freedom, Government and Economics," Transformation (1991); "Invisible and Intangible Hands," (with Pettit) Synthese (1993); "Constitutional Political Economy: The Political Economy of Homo Economicus?" (with Hamlin) Journal of Political Philosophy (1995); "The Hidden Economy of Esteem," Economics and Philosophy (2000); "Constitutional Reticence and Expressive Voting," Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy (2000); "Bargaining over Beliefs," (with Goodin) Ethics (2001); "Republican Liberty and Resilience," (with Hamlin) Monist (2001).  [Complete CV]

phone: (919) 834-2039
email: Geoffrey.Brennan@anu.edu.au