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Experimentation in Economics
According to some authors, experimental economics can be defined as “the use of experimentation as a method of investigation in economics.” In this...
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Ecological rationality and economics: where the Twain shall meet
Over the past decades psychological theories have made significant headway into economics, culminating in the 2002 (partially) and 2017 Nobel prizes...
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Methodological Individualism in Behavioral Economics
This chapter discusses the role of methodological individualism in behavioral economics. Since behavioral economics developed in reaction to...
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A Critical Approach to Critiquing Economics
The critique of mainstream economics and its damaging role in bringing about the ecological is based on a number of misconceptions: about the...
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The Utopia of Interdisciplinarity: A View from Economics
This text discusses interdisciplinary exchange and the intellectual obstacles to interdisciplinarity that arise from attempts to talk across...
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Evolutionary Economics and the Theory of Cultural Evolution
“Evolutionary economics” is a heterogeneous field of economic research that still lacks a coherent theoretical foundation. Some contributions dealing...
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Normative Challenges in Climate Change Economics
This chapter provides a brief overview of some of the key normative challenges in climate change economics with a focus on the social cost of carbon....
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Normative Challenges in Climate Change Economics
This chapter provides a brief overview of some of the key normative challenges in climate change economics with a focus on the social cost of carbon....
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Unlike Agents: The Role of Correlation in Economics and Biology
While there are many important similarities between evolution in biology and learning in economics, we should be cautious when importing ideas from...
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Economics: A Methodological Individualism in Search of Its Own Incompleteness
The traditional methodological individualism (MI) of mainstream economics has frozen its opposition to methodological holism within a process of...
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K.E. Løgstrup’s Ethics: Is There a Christian Alternative to Economics?
There is a fundamental gap between a mainstream economics dealing with rational management of a society with selfish actors and economic incentives,...
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Keywords in Economics and Evolutionary Biology: Twenty Five Concepts
This section exposes twenty-five key concepts in evolutionary biology and in economics. Each concept is explicated first in evolutionary biology,...
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Concluding Remarks 2: Economics and Evolutionary Biology: An Overview of Their (Recent) Interactions
Over the past fifty years, the conceptual exchanges between evolutionary biology and economics have been greatly intensified. From these exchanges,...
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Discoveries in the Science of Organizational Economics
This chapter takes organization scholars and economists beyond the idea that scientific discoveries are first and foremost the product of a stroke of...
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Model robustness in economics: the admissibility and evaluation of tractability assumptions
Lisciandra (2017) poses a challenge for robustness analysis (RA) as applied to economic models. She argues that substituting tractability assumptions...
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Natural Concepts and the Economics of Cognition and Communication
This article takes a cognitive approach to natural concepts. The aim is to introduce criteria that are evaluated with respect to how they support the...
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Naturalisation of Normative Economics
It is almost taken for granted among economists that the ultimate goal of public policyPublic policy is to provide society with more “welfare”, and...
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Chances, Problems and Limits of Experimental Ethics
Throughout its age-old tradition, philosophy has continuously been presented with new challenges. The latest one in this series comes from the...
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Expressive Responding, Experimental Philosophy, and Philosophical Expertise
The Experimental Philosophy (“X-Phi”) movement applies the methodology of empirical sciences – most commonly empirical psychology – to traditional...