Welcome to my website! I serve as the John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics, Rex and Alice A. Martin faculty director of the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership, and the faculty director of the Business Honors Program in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. I’m also a Senior Scholar at The Fund for American Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute.
My latest book is Seven Deadly Economic Sins, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.
“You have heard of the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Each is a natural human weakness that impedes happiness. In addition to these vices, however, there are economic sins as well. And they, too, wreak havoc on our lives and in society. They can seem intuitively compelling, yet they lead to waste, loss, and forgone prosperity. In this thoughtful and compelling book, James Otteson tells the story of seven central economic fallacies, explaining why they are fallacies, why believing in them leads to mistakes and loss, and how exorcizing them from our thinking can help us avoid costly errors and enable us to live in peace and prosperity.”
UPDATE: Seven Deadly Economic Sins was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal.
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Contact: jotteson@nd.edu