Emma Tieffenbach

Emma Tieffenbach is a substitute lecturer at the University of Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchâtel. Her areas of research are economic philosophy and political philosophy. After her thesis on "Explanations by the invisible hand", defended in Geneva in 2011, she was awarded an SNSF Marie Heim-Vögtlin scholarship for a research project on economic values. She published on rational choice theory, fictitious genealogies, the invisible hand, money, exchange, philanthropic motivations, organ donation, envy and on the moral limits of the market. From November 2022, she is a research associate at the University of Lugano, on the SNSF project "Essentialism and Mentalism in Austrian Economics" under the supervision of Prof. Kevin Mulligan.