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18A methodological perspective on economic modelling and the global pandemicEconomic Thought 10 (2): 1. 2022.A question that recent research on the global pandemic raises is: how do the assumptions underlying epidemiological models and economic models differ? Epidemiological models we now know have become quite sophisticated (see Avery et al., 2020). Debate among economic methodologists regarding the nature of modeling has generated a considerable literature as well (Reiss, 2012; Hands, 2013). Yet these two literatures are largely non-communicating. Perhaps this is because economics has produced relati…Read more
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Behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, and identityIn Barbara Montero & Mark D. White (eds.), Economics and the mind, Routledge. 2007.
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Explaining difference and diversity in an increasingly complex economicsIn Samuel Decker, Wolfram Elsner & Svenja Flechtner (eds.), Advancing pluralism in teaching economics: international perspectives on a textbook science, Routledge. 2019.
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9The theory of the individual in economics: identity and valueRoutledge. 2003.The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy. All strands of thought at heart contain to a particular theory of the individual. Economics, though, is guilty of taking this hugely important concept without questioning how we theorize it. This superb book remedies this oversight. The new approach put forward by Davies is to pay more attention to what moral philosophy may offer us in the study of personal identity, self consciousness and will. This crosses the tr…Read more
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30The Elgar companion to economics and philosophy (edited book)Edward Elgar. 2004.Read this excellent collection of informative papers in the field to stimulate your ow the field and readers interested in the nature of the discipline of ...
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92Identity Problems: An Interview with John B. DavisErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 5 (2): 81-103. 2012.In this interview, professor Davis discusses the evolution of his career and research interests as a philosopher-economist and gives his perspective on a number of important issues in the field. He argues that historians and methodologists of economics should be engaged in the practice of economics, and that historians should be more open to philosophical analysis of the content of economic ideas. He suggests that the history of recent economics is a particularly fruitful and important area for …Read more
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12Objectivity in economics and the problem of the individualJournal of Economic Methodology 30 (4): 276-289. 2023.This paper addresses objectivity in economics. It criticizes a closed science, ‘view from nowhere’ conception of economics and defends an open science, ‘view from somewhere’ conception of objective science. It ascribes the first conception to mainstream economics, associates it with its principle practices – reductionist modeling, formalization, limited interdisciplinarity, and value neutrality – and argues their foundation is the Homo economicus individual conception. Two problematic consequenc…Read more
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405Transformation without PaternalismJournal of Human Development and Capabilities 17 (3): 360-376. 2016.Human development is meant to be transformational in that it aims to improve people's lives by enhancing their capabilities. But who does it target: people as they are or the people they will become? This paper argues that the human development approach relies on an understanding of personal identity as dynamic rather than as static collections of preferences, and that this distinguishes human development from conventional approaches to development. Nevertheless, this dynamic understanding of pe…Read more
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14Individuals and Identity in EconomicsCambridge University Press. 2010.This book examines the different conceptions of the individual that have emerged in recent new approaches in economics, including behavioral economics, experimental economics, social preferences approaches, game theory, neuroeconomics, evolutionary and complexity economics, and the capability approach. These conceptions are classified according to whether they seek to revise the traditional atomist individual conception, put new emphasis on interaction and relations between individuals, account …Read more
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26What topic modeling could reveal about the evolution of economicsJournal of Economic Methodology 25 (4): 329-348. 2018.
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43Cooter and Rappoport on the NormativeEconomics and Philosophy 6 (1): 139-146. 1990.In a recent examination of the origins of ordinal utility theory in neoclassical economics, Robert D. Cooter and Peter Rappoport argue that the ordinalist revolution of the 1930s, after which most economists abandoned interpersonal utility comparisons as normative and unscientific, constituted neither unambiguous progress in economic science nor the abandonment of normative theorizing, as many economists and historians of economic thought have generally believed. Rather, the widespread acceptanc…Read more
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28Uncertainty and identity: a post Keynesian approachErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 3 (1): 33. 2010.Marshall's asset equilibrium model provides a way of explaining the identity of entrepreneurs. Keynes adopted this model but transformed it when he emphasized the short-period and volatile character of long-term expectations. This entails a view of entrepreneur identity in which radical uncertainty plays a central role. This in turn deepens the post Keynesian view of uncertainty as ontological in that entrepreneurs' survival plays into their behavior. This paper explores this role-based view of …Read more
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6 The normative significance of the individual in economicsIn Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma & Deborah M. Figart (eds.), Ethics and the market: insights from social economics, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 69. 2006.
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32The Turn in Economics and the Turn in Economic Methodology: Past Chair Address: International Network for Economic Method Conference, Grinnell College, 22 June 2006 (review)Journal of Economic Methodology 14 (3): 275-290. 2007.There is now considerable evidence that economics is undergoing significant change in which a collection of new research programs all at odds in important respects with standard neoclassical economics is increasingly dominating the economics research frontier (Davis 2006b). These new programs include game theory, evolutionary economics, behavioral economics, experimental economics, agent‐based complexity economics and neuroeconomics. All raise new issues for economics, and contest long‐held assu…Read more
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32The idea of public reasoningJournal of Economic Methodology 19 (2). 2012.Journal of Economic Methodology, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 169-172, June 2012
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56Soros's Reflexivity Concept in a Complex World: Cauchy Distributions, Rational Expectations, and Rational AddictionJournal of Economic Methodology 20 (4): 368-376. 2013.George Soros makes an important analytical contribution to understanding the concept of reflexivity in social science by explaining reflexivity in terms of how his cognitive and manipulative causal functions are connected to one another by a pair of feedback loops (Soros, 2013). Fallibility, reflexivity and the human uncertainty principle. Here I put aside the issue of how the natural sciences and social sciences are related, an issue he discusses, and focus on how his thinking applies in econom…Read more
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132Introduction: values and justiceJournal of Economic Methodology 19 (2). 2012.Journal of Economic Methodology, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 99, June 2012
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33Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being, George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, Princeton University Press, vi + 185 ppEconomics and Philosophy 27 (3): 331-338. 2011.
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28Introduction: economic methodology and philosophy of economics twenty years since the MillenniumJournal of Economic Methodology 28 (1): 1-2. 2021.The papers in this special symposium issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology advance a variety of perspectives on the current state and possible future development of economic methodology and...
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30Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology (edited book)Edward Elgar Publishers. 2011.Practitioners in the vanguard of new economic thinking will also find plenty of useful information in this path-breaking book.
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77Economic theory and cognitive science, by Don Ross. MIT press, 2005, 384 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 23 (2): 245-252. 2007.
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19Chalcedon ContemporizedPhilosophia Christi 22 (2): 273-288. 2020.This article argues that within the framework of historic Chalcedonian Christology, Jesus should be recognized not only as a fully divine Person, as the incarnation of the Logos, but also as a fully human person, and that this recognition of the full human personhood of Jesus does not constitute a new form of Nestorianism. It is further argued that the concept of the human hypostasis of Jesus nested within the divine hypostasis of the Logos provides a plausible explanation of how Jesus’s human l…Read more
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5Review of Economic Theory and Cognitive Science (review)Economics and Philosophy 23 (2): 245-252. 2007.
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19Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography, D. E. Moggridge. London and New York: Routledge, 1992, xxxi + 941 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 10 (2): 359. 1994.
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54Introduction: Methodology, systemic risk, and the economics professionJournal of Economic Methodology 20 (1). 2013.(2013). Introduction: Methodology, systemic risk, and the economics profession. Journal of Economic Methodology: Vol. 20, Methodology, Systemic Risk, and the Economics Profession, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1080/1350178X.2013.774842
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