Faculty
Michael Taylor
Office: Gowen 131
(206) 543-2766
mjtaylor@u.washington.edu
(Ph.D., University of Essex), professor, is a political theorist
and political economist. His research interests focus on identity,
moral motivation, and the limits of rational choice theory; hierarchy
and the origins of the state; markets and commodification; and environmental
ethics and politics. Recent publications include Community, Anarchy
and Liberty (Cambridge, 1982), The Possibility of Cooperation (Cambridge,
1987), and Rationality and Revolution , (co-author and editor, Cambridge,
1988). His recent research has appeared in a number of articles
including, "Common Property, Collective Action, and Community" (Journal
of Theoretical Politics), "The Communal Resource: Transaction Costs
and the Solution of Collective Action Problems" (Politics and Society),
"Cooperation, Norms, and Moral Motivation" (Analyse Und Kritrik),
"Good Government: On Hierarchy, Social Capital and the Limitations
of Rational Choice Theory" (Journal of Political Philosophy), and
"Governing Natural Resources" (Natural Resources Journal). He taught
at Yale and the University of Essex in England and was a Visiting
Professor/Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford, the
Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, the Institute of Advanced
Studies in Vienna, the European University Institute in Florence,
and the Australian National University. Taylor teaches courses on
economic theories of politics, environmental politics, and markets
and hierarchies.
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