Daniel Hausman

A Columbia Ph.D., Daniel Hausman is the Herbert A. Simon Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for 32 years. Before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, he taught at the University of Maryland-College Park and Carnegie Mellon University, and for the last five years he has been a member of the Center for Population-Level Bioethics at Rutgers. His research has focused on methodological, metaphysical and ethical issues at the boundaries between economics and philosophy, with a focus during the past two decades on issues concerning the measurement of health and the allocation of health-care resources. Jointly with Michael McPherson, he founded the journal Economics and Philosophy and edited it during its first ten years. He is the author of 8 books and nearly 200 articles. In 2009 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.