Peter Dietsch

Peter Dietsch is a philosopher and economist, and professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Victoria. His research focuses on issues of economic ethics, notably on tax justice, normative dimensions of monetary policy, and on income inequalities. Dietsch is the author of Catching Capital – The Ethics of Tax Competition (Oxford University Press, 2015), co-author of Do Central Banks Serve the People? (Polity Press, 2018), and co-editor of Global Tax Governance – What is Wrong with It and How to Fix It (ECPR Press, 2016). He has published numerous articles and book chapters, and is a regular contributor in the media on debates in his field. Dietsch received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in 2021 and was nominated to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017. Dietsch has held visiting positions at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (on a Humboldt fellowship) and at the European University Institute in Florence.

While at CFGS, Peter will be working on a book manuscript on just incomes.

For more details on Dietsch’s work, see https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/philosophy/people/facultymembers/profiles/dietsch-peter.php