Edward Hadas is a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. He is the author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching (published by Catholic University of America Press), as well two books on the philosophy of economics. He is completing a book on narratives of modernity, with the working title Prometheus, Pandora, Philoctetes, and the Cross: Understanding the Moreness of the Modern World. Edward is also the Secretary of the Philosophical Society of the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education and has a regular slot on the English Radio Maria discussion Catholic Anthropology. He teaches philosophy and economics at several programs for undergraduate students visiting Oxford from American colleges. Prior to entering academic life, Edward worked in finance, as an analyst and later as a journalist, in the United States, France, and the UK. He has a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. from the University of Oxford, and a M.B.A. from the University of Binghamton.