Michael Taylor (born 1942) is a political theorist and political economist, who is currently a professor at the University of Washington. His research interests include rational choice theory, moral motivation and game theory.
Taylor completed his PhD at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. He has taught at Essex and at Yale University and was previously Visiting Professor or Fellow has held visiting positions at the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford University, the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, the European University Institute in Florence, and at the Australian National University in Canberra.
He is the author of Community, Anarchy and Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 1982), The Possibility of Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 1987), and Rationality and Revolution (co-author and editor, Cambridge University Press, 1988).