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    A structured approach to a diagnostic of collective practices
    with Cristina Bicchieri and Ting Jiang
    Frontiers in Psychology 5 121138. 2014.
    “How social norms change” is not only a theoretical question but also an empirical one. Many organizations have implemented programs to abandon harmful social norms. These programs are standardly monitored and evaluated with a set of empirical tools. While monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of changes in objective outcomes and behaviors is well developed, we will argue that M&E of changes in the wide range of beliefs and preferences important to social norms is still problematic. In this paper, we …Read more
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    Purpose: To answer the following questions: Is all knowledge based on ‘experience’ in Hayek’s view? Was he an ‘empiricist’ or a ‘Kantian’? In what sense? Methodology/approach: Starting from a thorough analysis of Hayek’s explicit ideas about empiricism and experience in The Sensory Order and some related writings, I reconstruct his epistemology but also try to improve on it with the help of some other philosophers. Findings: Empiricism has many meanings depending on how you define ‘experience’. …Read more