Short Bio

C. Mantzavinos holds the Chair of Economics and Philosophy at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany. He is the author of Wettbewerbstheorie (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1994), Individuals, Institutions, and Markets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Naturalistic Hermeneutics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) and the editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals in four languages, notably “Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance” in Perspectives on Politics, 2004 (with Douglass North and Syed Shariq). He has taught at Freiburg, Bayreuth and Stanford, was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute and served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard (twice) and at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (twice). He holds two Ph.D`s, in Economics and in Philosophy, both from the University of Tübingen, Germany.

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• Born in Athens, Greece (1968)
• B.A., Economics, University of Athens (1989)
• Ph. D., Economics, University of Tübingen (1992)
• Assistant Professor, University of Freiburg (1995-1997)
• Military Service, Greek Army (1997-1999)
• Habilitation, Economics, University of Bayreuth (1999)
• Privatdozent, Economics, University of Freiburg and University of Bayreuth (1999-2000)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science, Stanford University (2000-2001)
• Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn (2001-2004)
• Ph. D., Philosophy, University of Tübingen (2003)
• Visiting Scholar, Philosophy, Harvard University (2004)
• Professor of Economics and Philosophy (Endowed Chair), Witten/Herdecke University (2004- )
• Chercheur Invité, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (2006) and (2008-2009)

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