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96Reflections on the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize Awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido ImbensErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 16 (1): 77-96. 2023.
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76Causal bias in measures of inequality of opportunitySynthese 200 (6): 1-31. 2022.In recent decades, economists have developed methods for measuring the country-wide level of inequality of opportunity. The most popular method, called the ex-ante method, uses data on the distribution of outcomes stratified by groups of individuals with the same circumstances, in order to estimate the part of outcome inequality that is due to these circumstances. I argue that these methods are potentially biased, both upwards and downwards, and that the unknown size of this bias could be large.…Read more
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62Property Rights with Respect to Modern Money: A Libertarian JustificationJournal of Social Ontology 6 (2): 315-349. 2020.The traditional Lockean justification of property rights has been argued to be no longer valid in a world in which much wealth does not derive from acquisitions of natural resources, and in which much property, such as money, is intangible. This means that libertarians need to reconsider whether and why property rights are justified for objects that fall outside of the scope of the Lockean justification. This paper gives a justification of property rights in relation to modern money, which uses …Read more
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53Review of Thomas Kelly’s Bias: A Philosophical Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, x + 288 pp (review)Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 16 (2). 2024.
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44Infinite frequency principles of direct inferenceSynthese 200 (2). 2022.According to an infinite frequency principle, it is rational, under certain conditions, to set your credence in an outcome to the limiting frequency of that outcome if the experiment were repeated indefinitely. I argue that most infinite frequency principles are undesirable in at least one of the following ways: accepting the principle would lead you to accept bets with sure losses, the principle gives no guidance in the case of deterministic experiments like coin tosses and the principle relies…Read more
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität, MünchenMunich Centre for Mathematical PhilosophyPost-doctoral Fellow
Munich, Bavaria, Germany