Debra Satz

Professor Debra Satz is the Vernon R. & Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society in Stanford's Department of Philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.  Her research focuses on political philosophy, ethics, and economics, with particular expertise in democratic theory, distributive justice, and the moral limits of markets. She is the author of Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets (Oxford University Press, 2010) and has published extensively on topics including educational equity, reproductive labor, and the ethics of commodification. Satz received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from MIT and her B.A. from the City College of New York, joining the Stanford faculty in 1989.