Edward Hadas

Departmental Tutor in Political Economy

Biography

Edward Hadas has a BA from Columbia University (USA) in Mathematics, an MA from the University of Oxford in Philosophy and Classics, and an MBA from the University of Binghamton (USA). He is currently completing a PhD by Published Works from St Mary's University, Twickenham. Prior to coming to Oxford in 2017, Professor Hadas worked in finance as an equity analyst from 1980 to 2004, and then in financial journalism as a columnist for Reuters Breakingviews and the Lex column of the Financial Times. In addition to teaching at Oxford Lifelong Learning, he provides tutorials and training in writing to visiting undergraduates at Stanford, Middlebury and other American universities in topics including philosophy, history of ideas, economics, and finance.

Research interests

His primary research interest is the reformulation of the disciplines of social science to be based on a realistic understanding of human nature, that is as essentially moral, always flawed, both social and antisocial, and profoundly but often opaquely called to the transcendental. He continues to work on developing a realistic model of economics, and hopes to write about war, romance and marriage, and political legitimacy in a bureaucratic age. He is currently finishing a synthetic study titled, Prometheus, Pandora, Philoctetes, and the Cross, Four Narratives of Modernity.

Publications

Hadas, Edward (2007) Human Goods, Economic Evils, A Moral Look at the Dismal Science", ISI Books)

Hadas, Edward (2020) Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching, Catholic University of America Press

Hadas, Edward (2021) “Locke, Hegel, and Covid-19”, Humanum Review Hadas, Edward (2022) Money, Finance, Reality, Morality, A New Way to Look at Old Problems (Ethics Press, 2022).

Hadas, Edward 2021) Desacralising the Monetary Economy: The Ideologies of Money, Telos

(2022) Same Roots, Different Flowers: How one Catholic Social Teaching Led to Radically Opposed Prudential Judgements, in Cheryl M. Patton and Eleftheria Egel, The COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethical Challenges and Considerations (Ethics Press, 2022)