Deepening and Widening Social Identity Analysis in Economics

Authors

  • John B. Davis Marquette University, United States and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v14i2.619

Abstract

As part of an article symposium on Partha Dasgupta and Sanjeev Goyal’s “Narrow Identities” (2019, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics), John B. Davis reflects on the variety of social identities and the implications this variety has for social identity analysis.

Author Biography

John B. Davis, Marquette University, United States and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

John B. Davis is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Marquette University and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Keynes’s Philosophical Development (Cambridge University Press, 1994), The Theory of the Individual in Economics: Identity and Value (Routledge, 2003), Individuals and Identity in Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2011)and co-author with Marcel Boumans of Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science (Palgrave, 2010). He has been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, Cambridge University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Duke University. He was editor of the Review of Social Economy (1987–2005), co-editor with Wade Hands of The Journal of Economic Methodology (2005–2019), and is the editor of the book series “Routledge Advances in Social Economics”. He is a past president or chair of the History of Economics Society, the International Network for Economic Method, and the Association for Social Economics, and a past vice-president of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

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Published

2021-10-05

How to Cite

Davis, J. B. (2021). Deepening and Widening Social Identity Analysis in Economics. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 14(2), 87–98. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v14i2.619