Dr. Constanze Binder

Biography

Constanze Binder is a full professor of Political Philosophy and Economic Ethics at Erasmus School of Philosophy and co-director of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE). She studied Economics and Environmental System Science at Graz University and obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Groningen. Prior to her current role, she taught in the Philosophy Departments of the University of Groningen and Leiden University, and worked in the Economics Department at the University of Osnabrück. She has also contributed to projects for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Environment and the Austrian Human Dimensions Program. Constanze's research lies at the interface of philosophy and economics, with a particular focus on the analysis of freedom, responsibility, distributive justice, political philosophy, welfare economics, and the ethics of individual and collective decision-making in politics and economics.

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