ENTREPRENEURSHIP
I've been involved in a number of entrepreneurial ventures and am fortunate to have an office next to extraordinary colleagues who run the Georgetown Entrepreneurship initiative. We have experimented with classroom projects that encourage entrepreneurial thinking and provide select groups with seed funding to launch a business. I continue to be very interested in connecting pedagogy and entrepreneurship.
CHARTER CITIES
Paul Romer's proposal for Charter Cities remains one of the most promising ideas for addressing a wide range of global concerns related to poverty, migration, development, and corruption. While Romer and associates have turned their focus to examining urban governance at large, I hope there will be opportunities to explore viable paths forward for the kind of Charter Cities that Romer initially envisioned.
GOVERNANCE & BLOCKCHAINS
Blockchain technologies are interesting for many reasons, but one of the most promising applications may be to solving governance problems in contexts where central authorities are not trusted and there is a need for transparency with regard to votes or processes. I am closely following a number of projects trying use blockchain technologies for governance.
I'm an academic interested in ethics, education, institutional change, and the methodological foundations of the social sciences.
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William English, PhD
Assistant Professor
Strategy, Economics, Ethics, & Public Policy
McDonough School of Business
Georgetown University
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Phone:
202-456-7890
Email:
william.english@georgetown.edu
Address:
307 Hariri
3700 O St, NW
Washington, DC 20057
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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Assistant Professor
Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy
Oxford University
2003-2004
Research Director, Emond J Safra Center for Ethics
PostDoc, Political Theory Project
Duke University
1999-2003
BA, Mathematics; BA, Economics
MSt, Ethics
PhD, Political Science
Harvard University
2016-Current
Duke University
2004-2010
Brown University
2010-2011
Research Associate, Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching
2013-2015
Georgetown University
2016-Current
Fellow, Program for Integrative Knowledge
2011-2013
2013-2015
Research Fellow, Emond J Safra Center for Ethics
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Affiliations
CURRENT RESEARCH
How to lie with data science
Institutional Corruption
Pure inquiry or pragmatic insights: a short history of the social sciences
Effective Mentoring Programs
Nudging towards honesty
Career aspirations and academic success
EVOLVING INTERESTS
"The Logic of Gift: Inspiring Behavior in Organizations Beyond the Limits of Duty and Exchange" Business Ethics Quarterly . April 2016: Vol 26 (2), 159180. (with Tomas Baviera and Manuel Guillen)
"Genopolitics and the Science of Genetics" American Political Science Review. April 2013: Vol 107 (2), 382-395. (with Evan Charney)
"Candidate Genes and Political Behavior" American Political Science Review. February 2012: Vol 106 (1), 1-34. (with Evan Charney)
"Varieties of Citizenship and the Moral Foundations of Politics" in The Ethics of Citizenship in the 21st Century, David Thunder (Eds): Springer
"Two Cheers for Nudging" Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy , Vol. 14, 2016: 829.
"Institutional Corruption and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy" Edmond J. Safra Working Papers, No. 15. June, 2013
"Economic and Ideological Corruptions of the Regulatory State" Society , May/June, 2014: Volume 51, Issue 3.
"Locke, Hegel, and the Economy" Society , October, 2013: Volume 50, Issue 6.
"Demystifying Trust: Experimental Evidence from Thailand and Cambodia." Journal of Theoretical Politics. April 2012 vol. 24 no. 2 172-209.