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Welcome to Martin E. Sandbu's homepage at the Department for Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of Business.
Sandbu is a lecturer in Business Ethics. He has a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford University.
Sandbu's pursues two main strands of research. The first concerns questions at the intersection between economics and philosophy. His Ph. D. dissertation focused on non-instrumental valuation of decision process and the rationality of such preferences. He is currently working on collective responsibility, with applications to the responsibility of stockholders for the actions of the corporations they own.
His second strand of research is the political economy of development, with particular attention to the role of nnatural resource wealth in the development process. In addition to academic research, Sandbu has advised developing-country governments and NGOs on how to manage the challenges that natural resource rents pose to sound economic policy, good governance, and transparency. He is part of the "Oil Team" of the advisory project to Sao Tome and Principe at the Center for Globalization and Economic Development, Columbia University Earth Institute.
Sandbu has published academic work in leading peer-reviewed journals in economics, philosophy, and political science.
At Wharton, Sandbu teaches Legal Studies 210: Ethics and Corporate Responsibility. Originally from Norway, Sandbu is the co-founder and chairman of the board of the Norwegian think-tank Liberalt Laboratorium ("Liberal Laboratory") and directs its working group on Islam and Liberal Society.
Legal Studies and Business Ethics The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Suite 600 JMHH 3730 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
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