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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
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
CLIENTS
SKILLS
EXPERTISE

"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.

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