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Overview
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Professional and Personal Interests
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Professional interests:
Since the 18th century, mainstream economic analysis has been
viewed as a science much like classical physics and the data
it uses has been treated as value free. Most economic work adopts
a rational choice framework that focuses primarily on the egoistic
motivations of behavior. Except at the policy level this makes
moral reflection irrelevant and ignores many non-egoistic motivations
underlying our actions. By studying the moral philosophy of
Adam Smith and tapping into the more recent work on non-egoistic
motivations of behavior there is opportunity to relate more
directly to the underlying values and philosophical orientation
of economic life. This effort to emphasize moral reflection
in economics, even at the data level, provides the foundation
for Halteman's research.
Personal Interests:
Jim and Jane have two married children, both pursuing academic
careers in philosophy. Jane co-manages a Ten Thousand Villages
third world crafts store and is a spiritual director. Jim is
a choir member, Sunday school teacher, layminister of education
in his local congregation, and a member of the Illinois Conference
Peace and Justice committee of the Mennonite denomination. Apart
from family and church activity, Jim enjoys golf, home improvement
projects and travel.
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- Intermediate microeconomics
- Government finance
- European political economy
- International business
- The history of economic thought
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- American Economic Association
- Association of Christian Economists
- Association of Social Economists
- MEDA, Mennonite Econ. Dev. Associates
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Moral Reflection in Economic Thinking from the Ancient World
to Modern Times
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- Selected Papers and Presentations
- Halteman, James, "Mennonite Attitudes Toward Capitalism,"
Anabaptist/ Mennonite Economics: Breaking the Silence.
(New York: American Press, Chapter 16, 1994).
- Halteman, James, The Clashing Worlds of Economics
and Faith. (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1995) [Revised
edition of Market Capitalism and Christianity]
- Halteman, James, Study Guide and Instructor's Manual
to accompany Microeconomics and Behavior by
Robert Frank, (New York: McGraw‑Hill Publishing
Co., 1990. 2nd edition, 1994. 3rd edition, 1996, 4th
edition, 2000, 5th edition, 2002)
- Halteman, James, "Why Christians Differ on Money",
Conciliation Quarterly Winter 1998, Vol. 17,
No. 1.
- Halteman, James, "Across the Bridge of Time:
Carrying Biblical Economic Principles into our Modern
Lives", Sharing, Winter 1998, Volume 32,
Number 3.
- Halteman,
James, "The Market System, The Poor, and Economic
Theory" chapter 3, Toward a Just
and Caring Society, ed. by David Gushee,
(Baker Books, 1999.)
- Halteman, James, "A Mennonite Approach to Business Ethics",
Spiritual Goods: Faith Traditions and the Practice of
Business, Stewart W. Herman, editor. (PhilosophyDocumentation
Center, 2001) pp. 275-91.
- Presented a paper "The Moral Hierarchy of Adam Smith",
Illinois Economic Association annual meetings November 2,
1996.
- Presented a paper: "Adam Smith and Thorstein Veblen as
Inspiration for a Social Economics." (Cambridge, UK: Tenth
World Congress of Association of Social Economists. August,
2000.)
- Halteman, James, "Adam Smith and the Prospects for Moral
Reflection in the Enlightenment," presented at a conference,
Baylor University, November, 2002.
Faculty Continued: Dr. Peter J. Hill
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