- On some methodological aspects of theory choice from the economist’s perspectiveJournal of Economic Methodology24 December 2024By Peter Galbács Faculty of International Management and Business, Budapest Business School, Budapest, Hungary
- Theories and models in economics: an empirical approach to methodology (2024)Journal of Economic Methodology23 December 2024By Miguel M. Torres Kent Business School, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
- Economic methodology to preserve the past? Some reflections on economic theories and their dueling interpretationsJournal of Economic Methodology20 December 2024By Catherine Herfeld Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, GermanyCatherine Herfeld is a Professor of Philosophy and History of Economics at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany and an external member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. Before this, Herfeld worked as an Assistant Professor of Social Theory and Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her expertise lies mainly in the philosophy of economics and the history of economics. In the context of an ERC Starting Grant, Herfeld is currently studying the phenomenon of model transfer in science, the kinds of challenges that can hamper such transfers, and whether they necessarily lead to progress.
- Cost-benefit analysis, ethical values, and a ‘taste’ for fairnessJournal of Economic Methodology16 December 2024By Patricia Marino Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, CanadaPatricia Marino is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where she specializes in the philosophy of economics, ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of sex and love. Her current research projects consider normative perspectives on formalization, idealization, and quantification.
- Rethinking public choiceJournal of Economic Methodology22 November 2024By Erica Celine Yu Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsErica Celine Yu is a PhD student at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She works on issues of political representation in deliberative democracies using formal political theory and normative democratic theory.
- Introduction to the special issue: economic theories and their dueling interpretationsJournal of Economic Methodology05 November 2024By Jack Vromen N. Emrah Aydinonat a Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlandsb Faculty of Social Sciences, TINT – Centre for Philosophy of Social Science, Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Authors’ reply to commentsJournal of Economic Methodology25 October 2024By Itzhak Gilboa Andrew Postlewaite Larry Samuelson
- On the contents and agents of commentary in modellingJournal of Economic Methodology23 October 2024By Uskali Mäki TINT Centre for Philosophy of Social Science, University of HelsinkiUskali Mäki is professor emeritus of practical philosophy at the University of Helsinki, active in TINT Centre for Philosophy of Social Science. In 1995-2006 he was professor of philosophy at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, directing EIPE (Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics). He is a former editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology (1995-2005), and former Chair of the International Network for Economic Method. His current research is mainly on the philosophy of economics and on models, interdisciplinarity, scientific realism, and social aspects of science. https://tint-helsinki.fi/maki
- Economic models as argumentative devicesJournal of Economic Methodology12 October 2024By N. Emrah Aydinonat Faculty of Social Sciences, TINT – Centre for Philosophy of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandN. Emrah Aydinonat is a philosopher of economics at the University of Helsinki, currently focusing on model-based explanations, policy proposals and debates, and the serviceability of economics to society. He holds the title of docent in both Practical Philosophy and Economics and is a member of the Centre for Philosophy of Social Science (TINT).
- Taking psychology seriously: a self-determination theory perspective on Robert Sugden’s opportunity criterionJournal of Economic Methodology28 September 2024By Malte Dold Elias van Emmerick Mark Fabian a Economics Department, Pomona College, Claremont, USAb Law School, University of Chicago, Chicago, USAc Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UKMalte Dold is Assistant Professor of Economics at Pomona College in California where he teaches in the Economics and PPE Programs. Previously, he was a post doctoral fellow at New York University. He holds a master's degree in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Bayreuth, and received his PhD in Economics from the University of Freiburg. His research lies at the intersection of Behavioral Economics, Philosophy of Economics, and History of Economic thought.Elias van Emmerick is a law student at the University of Chicago focused on Behavioral Law and Economics and the Political Economy of Energy Law. He holds a B.A. in Economics & Politics from Pomona College.Mark Fabian is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Warwick in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS). He is also an affiliate researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at Cambridge University. He was previously a Fulbright Scholar at the Brookings Institution in DC. He holds a BA in Philosophy and History, an MA in Development Economics, and a PhD in Economic Policy, all from the Australian National University. He studies wellbeing from an interdisciplinary perspective with a particular focus on policy applications.
- Beyond uncertainty: reasoning with unknown possibilities (Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy)Journal of Economic Methodology23 July 2024By E. Piermont Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK
- Normative empirical concepts – a practical guiding tool for economistsJournal of Economic Methodology23 July 2024By Irene van Staveren Institute of Social Studies (of Erasmus University Rotterdam), The Hague, The NetherlandsIrene van Staveren is Professor of Pluralist Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has published in a variety of fields, including on economics and ethics (see, for example, The Values of Economics – an Aristotelian Perspective, Routledge, 2001) as well as a pluralist economic textbook (Introduction to Economics from a Pluralist and Global Perspective, Routledge, 2015). Recently, she published pluralist economic perspectives in Alternative Ideas from Ten (almost) Forgotten Economists (PalgraveMacMillan, 2021).
- Economics from a biological perspective: the role of sociocultural homeostasisJournal of Economic Methodology22 May 2024By Marco VerweijAntonio Damasioa Department of Business, Social and Decision Sciences, Constructor University, Bremen, Germanyb Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USAMarco Verweij is a professor of political science at Constructor University. In his research, he aims to understand how complex social, economic and environmental problems can be resolved through the combined forces of (inter)governmental action, entrepreneurship, technological innovation, as well as civil society engagement. In addition, he explores synergies between social, economic and political theory on the one hand and social and affective neuroscience on the other.Antonio Damasio is a prominent neuroscientist/neurobiologist/neurologist who directs the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is well known for his investigation of the biology of affect, consciousness, and decision-making. He is the recipient of numerous scientific awards.
- Spectres of Mises: controversial methodological claims reassessedJournal of Economic Methodology22 May 2024By Diogo LourençoMoura Mário GraçaSchool of Economics and Management and Center for Economics and Finance, University of Porto, Porto, PortugalDiogo Lourenço is an assistant professor at the School of Economics and Management, University of Porto. He is also a principal investigator and researcher in political economy at the Center for Economics and Finance, University of Porto.Mário Graça Moura is an associate professor at the School of Economics and Management, University of Porto and a researcher in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology at the Center for Economics and Finance, University of Porto.
- Paternalism for rational agentsJournal of Economic Methodology03 May 2024By Kevin LeportierCentre d’Économie de la Sorbonne, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, FranceKevin Leportier is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne. His thesis focuses on the links between commitment and freedom, from the perspective of normative economics.
- Kirzner’s argument for the relevance and uniqueness of Austrian economics relating to neoclassical theory: the tendency to equilibrium and the Jevons’ law of indifferenceJournal of Economic Methodology22 April 2024By Lucas CasonatoEduardo Angelia Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazilb Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil Lucas Casonato is a professor at the Department of Economics at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) and at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR). He has a Ph.D. in Economic Development from the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). His research areas are the History of Economic Thought, Behavioral Economics, and Economic Methodology.Eduardo Angeli is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). His research focuses on the history of economic thought, particularly the history of modern Austrian Economics and the ideas of F.A. Hayek. Additionally, he has written works on James Buchanan and Brazilian economic thought.
- Kirzner’s argument for the relevance and uniqueness of Austrian economics relating to neoclassical theory: the tendency to equilibrium and the Jevons’ law of indifferenceJournal of Economic Methodology22 April 2024By Lucas CasonatoEduardo Angelia Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazilb Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil Lucas Casonato is a professor at the Department of Economics at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) and at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR). He has a Ph.D. in Economic Development from the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). His research areas are the History of Economic Thought, Behavioral Economics, and Economic Methodology.Eduardo Angeli is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). His research focuses on the history of economic thought, particularly the history of modern Austrian Economics and the ideas of F.A. Hayek. Additionally, he has written works on James Buchanan and Brazilian economic thought.
- Kirzner’s argument for the relevance and uniqueness of Austrian economics relating to neoclassical theory: the tendency to equilibrium and the Jevons’ law of indifferenceJournal of Economic Methodology22 April 2024By Lucas Casonato Eduardo Angeli a Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazilb Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, BrazilLucas Casonato is a professor at the Department of Economics at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) and at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR). He has a Ph.D. in Economic Development from the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). His research areas are the History of Economic Thought, Behavioral Economics, and Economic Methodology.Eduardo Angeli is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). His research focuses on the history of economic thought, particularly the history of modern Austrian Economics and the ideas of F.A. Hayek. Additionally, he has written works on James Buchanan and Brazilian economic thought.
- Pluralism in economics and the question of ontological pluralismJournal of Economic Methodology22 April 2024By Imko MeyenburgSchool of Economics, Finance and Law, Faculty of Business and Law, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UKImko Meyenburg is Senior Lecturer in Economics and International Business in the School of Economics, Finance and Law at the Faculty of Business and Law, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. His research focuses on the linguistics of social ontology, ethics, the ontology and the philosophy of economics, and political economy. His current work looks at the meaning and ontology of populism in political discourses in the UK.
- Experimental approach to development economics: a review of issues and optionsJournal of Economic Methodology18 April 2024By C. S. C. SekharNamrata Thapaa Agricultural Economics Research Unit, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, Indiab Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida, IndiaC. S. C. Sekhar is currently Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) and former Honorary Director of Agricultural Economics Research Centre, University of Delhi, India. His major areas of research and teaching include applied econometrics; agricultural markets & price formation; international commodity markets and agricultural trade.Namrata Thapa is an assistant professor of Economics at the Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH). Previously, she was working with the Institute of Economic Growth. Her research interests span across Development Economics, Institutions and Innovation Studies, Agriculture and Rural Development, and Gender Economics.
- Economic models and their flexible interpretations: a philosophy of science perspectiveJournal of Economic Methodology05 April 2024By Jaakko KuorikoskiCaterina MarchionniPractical Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandJaakko Kuorikoski is a professor of practical philosophy at the University of Helsinki and a member of The Centre for Philosophy of the Social Sciences TINT. Before this, Kuorikoski worked as an associate professor in a cross-disciplinary New Social Research program at Tampere University and as a lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at Helsinki. His main areas of specialization are philosophy of economics and philosophy of social sciences. His current research interests include new kinds of data and evidence in the social sciences, philosophy of macroeconomics, scientific understanding, and model-based social epistemology of science.Caterina Marchionni is a philosopher of science working in practical philosophy at the University of Helsinki. She is also a member of The Centre for Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the same institution. Caterina specializes in the philosophy of economics and the philosophy of the human and social sciences, in particular on issues of modelling, evidence, and interdisciplinarity. Updated information about Caterina's publications and research projects can be found on her homepage.
- Insider apology for microeconomic theorising?Journal of Economic Methodology18 March 2024By Maarten JanssenTarja KnuuttilaMary S. Morgana Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austriab Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austriac Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, London, EnglandMaarten Janssen is Professor of Microeconomics at the University of Vienna. Before joining Vienna he was a professor of Microeconomics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and director of the Tinbergen Institute. He created the Vienna Graduate School of Economics, is a fellow of the CEPR, an elected foreign member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities and he was awarded an honorary doctorate at Higher School of Economics (Moscow). He holds masters degrees in Econometrics and Philosophy of Science and a PhD in Economics from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). His main research areas are consumer search and auctions.Tarja Knuuttila has been Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna since August 2018. Earlier she was appointed as an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina (USA). She holds a PhD degree in Theoretical Philosophy (University of Helsinki). She served 2007–2010 as the Editor-in-Chief of Science & Technology Studies and is an elected member of Academia Europaea and European Academy of Sciences. Knuuttila's areas of specialization are scientific representation and modelling. She has studied modelling in economics, ecology, systems and synthetic biology, computational linguistics, and neuroscience. She is presently engaged with ERC Consolidator Grant project “Possible Life - The Philosophical Significance of Extending Biology” (2019–2024) and John Templeton Foundation project “Pushing the Boundaries: Agency, Evolution, and the Dynamic Emergence of Expanding Possibilities” (2022–2025).Mary S. Morgan is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics at the London School of Economics; she is an elected Fellow of the British Academy; an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences; and is currently President of the Royal Economic Society (2023–24). She has published widely on social scientists' practices of modelling, observing, measuring, and making case studies; and has long-standing interests in tracing how social science research is used to effect change in the world. She has just completed an ERC team project on ‘Narrative Science’ investigating the functions of narratives across the natural, human and social sciences.
- Explanation, prediction, and conceptual explorationJournal of Economic Methodology18 March 2024By Daniel HausmanCenter for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USADaniel Hausman is a research professor at the Rutgers Center for Population-Level Bioethics. He previously taught at the University of Maryland, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research addresses philosophical issues at the boundaries between economics and philosophy and currently focuses on health measurement and allocating health care by cost-effectiveness.
- Equilibrium modeling in economics: a design-based defenseJournal of Economic Methodology31 January 2024By Armin W. SchulzDepartment of Philosophy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USAArmin W. Schulz is an interdisciplinary researcher investigating what we can learn from linking evolutionary biology and the cognitive and social sciences. His particular focus is on the evolutionary pressures on representational decision-making, both with a view towards cognitive psychology and economics.
- To change or not to change. The evolution of forecasting models at the Bank of EnglandJournal of Economic Methodology31 January 2024By Aurélien GoutsmedtFrancesco SergiBéatrice CherrierJuan AcostaClément FontanFrançois Claveaua ISPOLE; F.R.S.-FNRS, UCLouvain, Louvain, Belgiumb LIPHA, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Paris, Francec CNRS; Ecole Polytechnique, CREST, Paris, Franced Facultad de Economia, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombiae ISPOLE; USL-B, IEE, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgiumf CIRST, Université de Sherbrooke, Montréal, CanadaAurélien Goutsmedt is research fellow (chargé de recherche) of Belgium FNRS at UCLouvain. His research topics include the history of macroeconomics, the history of economic expertise and of economic policy in the 1970s and the 1980s. He is also the developer of several quantitative tools, in particular R-packages for bibliometric research.Francesco Sergi is Associate Professor in Economics at Université Paris Est Créteil and a member of the LIPHA research centre. His research topics include the history of macroeconomics and macroeconometric modelling, and the computerization of economics.Béatrice Cherrier is a historian of economics, CNRS researcher, affiliated with the CREST research centre, and an associate professor at Ecole Polytechnique. Her research work addresses the history of applied economics in the 20th century, which includes researching the history of several fields (macroeconomics, public economics, urban economics, etc), as well as various efforts to make economic models tractable, the consequences of the rise of the computer on economists' practices, and whether the development of applied practices transformed the status of women in the discipline.Juan Acosta is a historian of economics at Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. His research focuses on the history of macroeconomics and monetary economics, the role of economics as expert knowledge in central banks, and the history of economics in Colombia. Juan Acosta is part of GIHPTE and COAPTAR.Clément Fontan is Professor of European Political Economy at the UCLouvain and at Université Saint-Louis in Bruxelles. His research focuses on political economy, European studies, the ethics of finance, central banking and financial crises.François Claveau is a philosopher of science and a Professor at the Department of Philosophy and applied ethics at Sherbrooke University. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Applied Epistemology.
Journal of Economic Methodology
- On some methodological aspects of theory choice from the economist’s perspective
- Theories and models in economics: an empirical approach to methodology (2024)
- Economic methodology to preserve the past? Some reflections on economic theories and their dueling interpretations
- Cost-benefit analysis, ethical values, and a ‘taste’ for fairness
- Rethinking public choice
- Introduction to the special issue: economic theories and their dueling interpretations
- Authors’ reply to comments
- On the contents and agents of commentary in modelling
- Economic models as argumentative devices
- Taking psychology seriously: a self-determination theory perspective on Robert Sugden’s opportunity criterion
- Beyond uncertainty: reasoning with unknown possibilities (Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy)
- Normative empirical concepts – a practical guiding tool for economists
- Economics from a biological perspective: the role of sociocultural homeostasis
- Spectres of Mises: controversial methodological claims reassessed
- Paternalism for rational agents
- Kirzner’s argument for the relevance and uniqueness of Austrian economics relating to neoclassical theory: the tendency to equilibrium and the Jevons’ law of indifference
- Kirzner’s argument for the relevance and uniqueness of Austrian economics relating to neoclassical theory: the tendency to equilibrium and the Jevons’ law of indifference
- Kirzner’s argument for the relevance and uniqueness of Austrian economics relating to neoclassical theory: the tendency to equilibrium and the Jevons’ law of indifference
- Pluralism in economics and the question of ontological pluralism
- Experimental approach to development economics: a review of issues and options
- Economic models and their flexible interpretations: a philosophy of science perspective
- Insider apology for microeconomic theorising?
- Explanation, prediction, and conceptual exploration
- Equilibrium modeling in economics: a design-based defense
- To change or not to change. The evolution of forecasting models at the Bank of England