Volume 1, Issue 1, Autumn 2008

 

  • Welcome to the inaugural issue of EJPE [PDF]

C. Tyler DesRoches, Luis Mireles-Flores, and Thomas Wells

 

Articles:

 

  • (Why) do selfish people self-select in economics? [PDF]

Alessandro Lanteri

  • Are we witnessing a ‘revolution’ in methodology of economics? About Don Ross’s recent book on microexplanation [PDF]

Maurice Lagueux

  • Reply to Lagueux: on a revolution in methodology of economics [PDF]

Don Ross

  • The impossibility of finitism: from SSK to ESK? [PDF]

David Tyfield

  • Bernard Mandeville and the ‘economy’ of the Dutch [PDF]

Alexander Bick

  • Is history of economic thought a “serious” subject? [PDF]

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

 

Special contribution:

 

  • Realism from the ‘lands of Kaleva’:

an interview with Uskali Mäki [PDF]

 

Book reviews:

 

  • Review of Donald MacKenzie’s An engine, not a camera: how financial models shape markets [PDF]

Job Daemen

  • Review of Stephen Ziliak and Deirdre McCloskey’s The cult of statistical significance: how the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives [PDF]

Aris Spanos

  • Science is judgement, not only calculation: a reply to Aris Spanos’s review of The cult of statistical significance [PDF]

Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey

  • Review of David Colander’s The making of an economist, redux [PDF]

René L. P. Mahieu

  • Review of Arjo Klamer’s Speaking of economics: how to get into the conversation [PDF]

Erwin Dekker

 

Recent PhD thesis summaries:

 

  • The imprisoner’s dilemma: the political economy of proportionate punishment [PDF]

Daniel D’Amico

  • Rationality and institutions: an inquiry into the normative implications of rational choice theory [PDF]

Bart Engelen

  • The moral trial: on ethics and economics [PDF]

Alessandro Lanteri

 

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