Grove City College’s Winklevoss School of Business will host author and Notre Dame professor of business Dr. James Otteson for a lecture at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Staley Hall of Arts and Letters on campus.
Otteson will discuss “Honorable Business,” which is also the name of his 2019 book that presents an approach to business that counters the ruthless and amoral, zero-sum gain stereotype of commerce. Done correctly, Otteson argues, business activity can create value for all parties involved, and “enable flourishing for individuals and prosperity for society,” according to publisher Oxford University Press.
“Grove City is immensely honored to be hosting James Otteson to speak on his book, ‘Honorable Business.’ Few modern scholars exhibit Otteson's masterful integration of economics, ethics, and political philosophy. He is also a worldclass authority on the thought of Adam Smith and a dynamic and articulate communicator,” Associate Professor of Economics Caleb Fuller ’13 said.
Otteson serves as the John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics at the Mendoza School of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago.
In addition to “Honorable Business,” Otteson is the author of “Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life,” “Actual Ethics,” “The Essential David Hume,” “Seven Deadly Economic Sins,” and “Should Wealth Be Redistributed? A Debate,” with Steven McMullen.
The lecture is free and open to the public.