EIPE Research Seminar Archive
Seminar Programme
Autumn 2011
12 September 2011
Isabelle Drouet (Paris)
"Causal assumptions in causal discovery"
Discussant: Joris Mooij (Utrecht)
26 September 2011
Constanze Binder (EUR)
“Diversity Revealed”
Discussant: Harrie de Swart (EUR)
3 October 2011
Cristina Bicchieri (Pennsylvania)
"Third party sanctioning and compensation behavior: findings from the Ultimatum game"
24 October 2011
Jan Stoop (EUR)
“From the Lab to the Field with Envelopes: Testing the External Validity of Altruism”
Discussant: Thomas de Haan (Amsterdam)
7 November 2011
Cars Hommes (UvA)
“Behavioral Rationality”
21 November 2011
Kirsten Rohde (EUR)
“A social decision making experiment on risk and inequality”
Discussant: Conrad Heilmann (EUR)
5 December
Caterina Marchionni (Helsinki)
“Playing with networks: how economists explain"
Discussant: Rogier de Langhe (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
Seminar Programme
Spring 2011
7 February
Dagmar Provijn (Gent) “Goal-directed proofs as multi-tool”
Comments Tim De Mey (EUR)
21 February
Olivier Roy (Groningen) “Interactive Rationality and Responsiveness to Reasons” (Joint work with Eric Pacuit, TILPS)
Comments Elias Tsakas (Maastricht)
7 March
Michel de Vroey (Louvain-la-Neuve) “Lucas on the Relationship between Theory and Ideology”
Comments Marcel Boumans (UvA)
21 March
Conrad Heilmann (EUR) “Foundations of Time Discounting”
Comments Marcel Boumans (UvA)
4 April
Peter Rodenburg (Amsterdam) “Measurement as a Heuristic Action; The Case of early Unemployment Measurement”
Comments Julian Reiss (EUR)
18 April
Filip Buekens (Leuven, Tilburg) “Searlean Reflections on Holy Mountains”
Comments Frank Hindriks (Groningen)
2 May
Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde (Paris) “How Neural Data can make Sense in Economics”
Comments Jan Stoop (ESE)
16 May
Christoph Fehige (Saarland University)
“Peace, Tolerance and the Obligation to Do the Best”
Comments Rutger Claassen (Leiden)
5 July
Mauro Rossi (Montreal) "Degrees of Preference Satisfaction"
Room H5-32
Seminar Programme
Autumn 2010
20 September 2010
Tim DeMey (EUR)
“Human, all too human knowledge”
Comments Frans Schaeffer (EUR)
4 October 2010
Carsten Hermann-Pillath (Frankfurt)
“A Neurolinguistic Approach to Institutional Creativity: The Case of Money”
Comments Clement Levallois (EUR)
18 October 2010
Ulrich Kühne (Berlin)
“Rationality in normative belief change”
1 November 2010
Paul Ormerod (London)
“Macroeconomic theory and political economy: lessons from the financial crisis”
Comments Harry van Dalen (Tilburg)
15 November 2010
Anssi Korhonen (Helsinki)
“The comfortable pluralism now so often taken for granted”
Comments Fred Muller, EUR
29 November 2010
Alan Kirman (d’Aix-Marseille)
“Why Macroeconomic Theory is in Trouble”
Comments Casper de Vries (EUR)
13 December 2010
Arno Riedl (Maastricht)
“Sociality and Institutions: What laboratory experiments can tell us about the interaction of institution design and social behavior”
Comments Robert Dur (EUR)
Spring 2010
15 February 2010
Tiago Mata (UvA)
“Metaphors of Crisis in USA media, 2007-09”
Discussant: Arjo Klamer (EUR)
01 March 2010
Floris Heukelom (Radboud University Nijmegen)
“Origin and Interpretation of Internal and External Validity in Economics”
Discussant: Gerdien van Eersel (EUR)
15 March 2010
Ivan Moscati (Bocconi Milano)
“Random behavior and the as-if defense of rational choice theory in demand experiments” (jointly written with P. Tubaro)
Discussant: Eva van den Broek (UvA)
29 March 2010
Roger Backhouse (Birmingham; EUR)
"Hayek, Friedman and the end of the Keynesian era"
Discussant: Eric Schliesser (Ghent)
12 April 2010
Sjoerd Zwart (Delft)
"Ethics of modeling in engineering design"
(jointly written with I. van de Poel and U. Jacobs)
Discussant: Marcel Boumans (UvA)
26 April 2010
Rutger Claassen (Leiden)
“Three Concepts of Leisure”
Discussant: Gijs van Donselaar (UvA)
10 May 2010
Gunnar Heinsohn (Bremen)
“Defence of property as the cause of crises”
Discussant: Ben Vollaard (UvT)
31 May 2010
Till Grüne-Yanoff (Helsinki)
“Welfare Notions for Soft Paternalism”
Discussant: François Claveau (EUR)
Autumn 2009
14 September 2009, room G2-41
Federica Russo (Louvain-la-Neuve, Kent) “Downstream differences in different types of extrapolation”
Comments Leen de Vreese (Gent)
28 September 2009, room G2-41
Martijn Boot (EUR)
“Equity versus efficiency in the distribution of health care resources” (EUR)
Comments Arthur Attema (EUR)
5 October 2009, room G2-41
Debra Satz (Stanford)
“Markets in Everything? Selling and buying human kidneys”
Comments Rutger Claassen (University of Leiden)
Friday 16 October 2009, room G2-46
Daniel Hausman (Wisconsin-Madison)
“Six mistakes about preferences”
Comments Vladimir Karamychev (EUR)
Wednesday 21 October 2009, 11:00 hrs, room G3-21
Harold Kincaid (Alabama at Birmingham)
“Current Trends in Philosophy of Economics”
Comments Marcel Boumans (UvA)
9 November 2009, room G2-41
Geoff Hodgson (Hertfordshire)
“The Great Crash of 2008 and the Reform of Economics”
Comments Olav Velthuis (UvA)
16 November 2009, room G2-41
Herbert Gintis (Massachusetts)
“Five Principles for the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences”
Comments Jelle de Boer (Universiteit van Delft)
30 November 2009, room G2-41
Fred Muller (EUR)
“Understanding with and without Explanation”
Comments Tim de Mey (EUR)
14 December 2009, room G2-41
Bart Engelen (Leuven)
“My Way or the Highway: Why Economists Should Stop Isolating Themselves From Other Scientists”
Comments Clement Levallois (EUR)
Spring 2009
22 January 2009
Ulrich Witt (Jena)
“Novelty and the Bounds of Unknowledge in Economics”
Comments Koen Frenken (Utrecht)
9 February 2009
Peter Wakker (EUR)
"Using modern Non-expected Utility Theories for Risky Decisions and Modern Tools from Experimental Economics to revisit Classical Debates in Economics, and to Restore the Classical Utility Concept" (co-authors: Mohammed Abdellaoui and Carolina Barrios)
Comments Jan Sprenger (TiLPS, Tilburg)
2 March 2009
Martin O’Neill (Manchester, Louvain-la-Neuve)
“Social Justice, Corporations and the Basic Structure”
Comments Gijs van Donselaar (UvA)
16 March 2009
Paul Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz)
“Whatever happened to Analytic Philosophy of History?”
Comments Harro Maas (UvA)
30 March 2009
Tony Lawson (Cambridge)
“Heterodox Economics and Pluralism”,
Comments Esther-Mirjam Sent (Nijmegen)
20 April 2009
Johan Graafland (Tilburg)
"Doux Commerce and Self-Destruction in a Curvilinear Relation between Competition and Virtues"
Comments Rudi Verburg (EUR)
11 May 2009
Federica Russo (Louvain-La-Neuve, Kent),
“Explaining causal modelling. Or, what a causal model ought to explain”
Comments Leen de Vreese (Gent)
25 May 2009
Wybo Houkes (Eindhoven)
"Universal Darwinism and the Unity of Science"
Comments Jan-Willem Stoelhorst (UvA)
Autumn 2008
29 September 2008
M. Braham (University of Groningen)
“Causation and Moral Responsibility: A Re-examination” (with Martin van Hees)
Comments Maureen Sie (EUR)
8 October 2008
Jesus Zamora Bonilla (UNED, Madrid)
"Two point five dogmas of value driven epistemology"
Comments Giedre Vasiliauskaite (EUR)
27 October 2008
Ingrid Robeyns (EUR)
“Are children public goods”
Comments Rutger Claassen (University of Utrecht)
10 November 2008
Frank Hindriks (University of Groningen)
“Idealization, Explanation and Understanding”
Comments Julian Reiss (EUR)
24 November 2008
John Davis (UvA)
“Evolution and the Individual - Identity through Change”,
Comments TBA
1 December 2008
Emrah Aydinonat (Ankara University/ University of Helsinki)
"How does the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem survive despite its “poor” empirical performance?"
Comments TBA
Spring 2008
4 February 2008
Luis Fernández Moreno (Complutense Madrid)
“On the Reference of Proper Names: A Reply to Kripke”
Comments Filip Buekens (Tilburg)
18 February 2008
Fabienne Peter (Warwick)
"Pure Epistemic Proceduralism"
Comments Tim de Mey (EUR)
3 March 2008
Mark Blaug (UvA, EIPE)
“The trade-off between rigour and relevance; Sraffian economics as a case in point”
Comments Marcel Boumans (UvA)
17 March 2008
Roman Frigg (LSE)
“Models and Fiction”
Comments F.A. Muller (EUR)
31 March 2008
Matthew Braham (Groningen)
“Smithian Social Justice”,
Comments Eric Schliesser (Leiden)
14 April 2008
Alessandro Lanteri (EIPE)
"What is Behavioural Economics Like?"
Comments Arno Riedl (Maastricht)
28 April 2008
Alex Voorhoeve (LSE)
“Why it Matters that Some are Worse Off Than Others”
Comments Boudewijn de Bruin (Groningen)
19 May 2008
Tarja Knuuttila (Helsinki)
"Representation, idealization and fiction in economics: From the assumptions issue to the epistemology of modelling"
Comments Julian Reiss (EIPE)
Autumn 2007
17 September 2007
Julian Reiss (EUR)
”Thought Experiments, Counterfactuals and Historical Policy Analysis”
Comments James McAllister (Leiden)
1 October 2007
Frans van Winden (UvA)
“Affective Public Choice”
Comments Barbara Krug (EUR)
8 October 2007
Keith Dowding (LSE/Canberra)
“Independence, Invariance and Interpretation”
Comments Maarten Franssen (Delft)
15 October 2007
Aki Lehtinen (Helsinki)
”Robustness in economic models”
Comments Bauke Visser (EUR)
29 October 2007
Mieke Boon (Twente)
“Phenomena: a transcendental stance”
Comments F.A. Muller (EUR)
12 November 2007
Des Gasper (The Hague)
”From ‘Hume's Law’ to Policy Analysis for Human Development - Sen after Myrdal, Streeten, Stretton and Haq”
Comments Ingrid Robeyns (Nijmegen)
26 November 2007
Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg)
“Consensus, Deliberation and the Paradoxes of Judgment Aggregation”
Comments Martin van Hees (Groningen)
Spring 2007
5 February 2007
Caroline Gerschlager (Vienna)
“Self-Deception in Adam Smith”
Comments: Mark Blaug (UvA, EIPE)
19 February 2007
Irene van Staveren (Nijmegen, ISS The Hague)
“The ethics of efficiency”
Comments: Bert van der Ven (Tilburg)
5 March 2007
Maurice Lagueux (Montreal)
“Are we witnessing a “revolution” in methodology of economics?”
Comments: Menno Rol (Groningen)
19 March 2007
Frans van Winden (UvA)
“Affective public choice”
Comments: Barbara Krug (EUR)
2 April 2007
Huib Looren de Jong (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
“Mindreading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction” (joint author Maurice Schouten)
Comments: Marc Slors (Nijmegen)
16 April 2007
Simon Blackburn (Cambridge)
"Overcoming the War of All Against All"
Comments: Bruno Verbeek (Leiden)
16.00-18:00, Room C-5
7 May 2007
Jeanne Peijnenburg (Groningen)
“Achilles, the Tortoise and Zeno balls: Ancient and modern paradoxes” (joint author David Atkinson)
Comments: Tim de Mey (EUR)
21 May
Margaret Schabas (British Colombia)
“More Like Apes than Angels: Natural Historical Modes of Thinking in the Political Economy of David Hume and Adam Smith”
Comments: Bert Mosselmans (Middelburg)
4 June
Roger Backhouse (Birmingham)
"Economics in the United States since the Second World War"
Comments: Arjo Klamer (EUR)
Autumn 2006
Time Mondays 16:00 – 18.00
Place Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Woudestein campus, Room H5-32
(unless otherwise indicated)
18 September
Raymond Corbey (Tilburg and Leiden)
“Homo Reciprocans: Mauss, Hobbes and Darwin”
Comments Reimar Schefold (Leiden)
2 October (Room A2)
Ken Binmore (UCL)
“Rational Decisions in a Large World”
Comments Boudewijn de Bruin (ILLC, UvA)
16 October
Alessio Moneta (Jena)
“Empirical validation of simulation models in economics: methodological issues and open problems”
Comments Kees Jan van Garderen (UvA)
30 October
Jan-Willem Romeijn (University of Amsterdam)
“The Proper Use of Statistics in Economics”
Comments: Marcel Boumans(UvA)
13 November
Ana Santos (EIPE; ISCTE Lisbon)
“The 'materiality' of economics experiments: laboratory experiments and the
real world”
Comments Arthur Schram (UvA)
17 November (Friday 14.00 Room H5-32)
Timothy Ketelaar (New Mexico State University)
“Using facial displays of emotion to identify strategy types: Predicting cooperative and uncooperative behavior from characteristic facial displays.”
Comments Roberta Muramatsu (EIPE; Mackenzie University, São Paulo)
20 November
Roberta Muramatsu (EIPE)
“Emotions and Bounded Rationality”
Comments Arjo Klamer (EUR)
4 December
Jeroen van Bouwel (University of Ghent)
“Elucidating scientific pluralism”
Comments Caterina Marchionni (EIPE)
Spring 2005
Time
Mondays (except 10 March) at 4:00 pm
Place
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rooms H5-5 (see below for exceptions)
31 January H5-05
Michael Howard (University of Waterloo and NIAS)
“The rationality of violence, terror and war”
Comments by Chris Kortekaas (Erasmus)
14 February G3-39)
John Groenewegen and Rolf Künneke (Delft)
“On Institutional Change: Equilibrium, Evolution and Revolution.
The Case of the Dutch Electricity Sector”
Comments by Roland Spekle (Erasmus)
28 February H5-05
Govert den Hartog (Amsterdam)
“The reality of ownership. Are there any principles of fiscal justice?”
Comments by Heico Kerkmeester (Erasmus)
10 March H5-05
Sanjeev Goyal (Essex and Erasmus)
“The social structure of economics”
Comments by Harry van Dalen (Erasmus and NIDI)
14 March H5-05
Marc Slors (Nijmegen)
“Against physicalism”
Comments by Lars de Nul (Antwerpen)
4 April H4-02
Martin van Hees (Groningen)
“Preferences, Counterfactual Success, and Freedom”
Comments by TBA
18 April H6-05
Werner Guth (Max Planck Institute)
“Shared Interest versus Repeated Interaction”
Comments by TBA
9 May H5-05
Filip Buekens (Tilburg)
“Observing in the Space of Reasons”
Comments by Fred Muller (Erasmus)
Autumn 2004
17 September (Friday, 2pm) H5-32
Robert Sugden (East Anglia)
“Experiments as exhibits and experiments as tests”
4 October H5-05
Gulbahar Tezel (Netherlands Competition Authority)
“Marshall’s ontology and his views on the nature of economic theory”
Comments by Mark Blaug (Erasmus)
18 October H5-05
Francesco Guala (Exeter)
"On the external validity of economic experiments"
Comments TBA
1 November H4-10
Hans Radder (Free University of Amsterdam)
“Observation, concepts, and abstraction”
Comments by Fred Muller (Erasmus)
15 November H5-05
Irene van Staveren (Nijmegen and ISS)
“Modelling care: Mediating theory and the real world”
Comments by Edith Kuiper (Amsterdam)
29 November H5-05
Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (Witten/Herdecke)
"Human actions as meaningful events"
Comments by Guy Widdershoven
13 December H4-10
Fred Muller (Erasmus)
“Seeing is believing: Observability and knowledge”
Comments by Filip Buekens
Spring 2004
2 February
Geert Reuten (University of Amsterdam)
"Productive force and the degree of intensity of labour:
Marx's concepts and formalizations in the Middle Part of Capital I"
Comments by Henk Plasmeijer (Groningen)
16 February (NOTE: Room L1-094)
Stathis Psillos (University of Athens)
"Scientific Realism and the Base-Rate Fallacy"
Comments by Janneke van Lith (Utrecht)
23 February
Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
"On some recent responses to Machine Dreams"
Comments by Marcel Boumans (Amsterdam)
8 March
Elias Khalil (Vassar College)
"The two faces of beliefs"
Comments by Bart Nooteboom (Erasmus)
22 March
Rainer Hegselmann (University of Bayreuth)
"Opinion Dynamics - Insights by radically simplifying models"
Comments by Igor Douven (Erasmus)
5 April (NOTE: Room G3-38)
Arjo Klamer (Erasmus)
"The economy of the common goods"
Comments by John Groenewegen (Erasmus)
19 April
Michel ter Hark (University of Groningen)
"Popper's evolutionary theory of objective knowledge: A historical perspective"
Comments by Henk Visser
3 May
Gido Berns (Tilburg University)
"The endlessness of economy and rationality"
Comments by Peter-Wim Zuidhof (Erasmus)
14 May (NOTE: 2pm, Room D-5) CANCELLED
Tiziano Raffaelli (University of Pisa)
"Marshall on character: A revaluation"
Comments by Gulbahar Tezel (Erasmus)
7 June (NOTE: Room L1-070)
Robert C. Solomon (University of Texas at Austin)
"Adam Smith and the sentiment of sympathy"
Comments by Mark Blaug (Erasmus)
Autumn 2003
22 September
Erik Weber (Ghent)
"Open the social sciences: A sequel"
6 October
Jack Vromen (Erasmus)
"Philip Pettit on resilience explanation"
Comments by Maarten Franssen (Delft)
20 October
Eric Schliesser (Washington University)
"Some Principles of Adam Smith's 'Newtonian' Methods in the Wealth of Nations"
Comments by Mark Blaug (Erasmus)
10 November
Thomas Schelling (Maryland and Harvard)
"The legacy of Hiroshima"
1 December
Arjo Klamer and Deirdre McCloskey (Erasmus)
"The Rhetorical Ethos of Positive Economics"
Uskali Mäki (Erasmus)
"Unrealistic assumptions and unnecessary confusions: Rereading and rewriting F53"
15 December
Kevin Hoover (California at Davis)
"Nonstationary Time Series, Cointegration, and the Principle of the Common Cause"
Comments by Teun Kloek (Erasmus)
Spring 2003
27 January
Theo van Willigenburg (Erasmus)
"In praise of conceptual analysis:
A comparison of 'fragile', 'disgusting', 'red', 'bitter', 'admirable' and 'good'"
Comments by Jan Bransen (University of Nijmegen)
10 February
Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam)
"The instruments of an economist: How to evaluate them?"
Comments by TBA
24 February
Bruno Verbeek (University of Bayreuth)
"Justifying a theory of rational choice"
Comments by Igor Douven (Erasmus)
10 March
Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria)
"Chicago Economics and Institutionalism"
Comments by John Groenewegen (Erasmus)
24 March
Arie Rip (University of Twente)
"Science in the Twenty First Century"
Comments by Josee van Eijndhoven (Erasmus)
7 April
Jesus Zamora Bonilla (UNED, Madrid)
"The (game-theoretic) logic of scientific discovery"
Comments by Esther-Mirjam Sent (University of Notre Dame and NIAS)
28 April
Bert Mosselmans (Utrecht and Antwerp)
"Quetelet's methodology and the prehistory of the representative agent"
Comments by Evert Schoorl (Groningen)
12 May
Barbara Krug (Erasmus)
" Networks in cultural, economic, and evolutionary perspective"
Comments by Päivi Oinas (Erasmus)
Autumn 2002
23 September
Olav Velthuis (Konstanz)
"The art of pricing"
Comments by Wilfred Dolfsma (Erasmus)
7 October
Roland Speklé (Erasmus)
"Towards a transaction cost theory of management control"
Comments by Barbara Krug
21 October
Joshua Cohen (Erasmus and Tufts)
"The fairness-efficiency tradeoff in health economics and health policy"
Comments by Gijs van Donselaar
4 November
Esther-Mirjam Sent (Notre Dame and NIAS) and Matthias Klaes (Keele)
"An conceptual history of the emergence of bounded rationality"
Comments by Jack Vromen (Erasmus)
18 November
Ronald Giere (Minnesota and NIAS)
"Scientific perspectivism"
Comments by Igor Douven (Erasmus)
2 December
Bruno Frey (Zürich)
"Publishing as prostitution"
Comments by Maarten Janssen (Erasmus)
16 December
John Davis (Marquette and Amsterdam) and Matthias Klaes (Keele)
"Reflexivity – Curse or Cure?"
Comments by Frans Schaeffer (Erasmus)
Spring 2002
4 February
Harro Maas (University of Amsterdam)
"Exorcising Mill and Whewell: Jevons's Introduction of Graphs in Economics"
Comments by Bert Mosselmans (University of Antwerp)
18 February
Claude Ménard (Paris I, Sorbonne, and Erasmus)
"Measuring the Welfare Effects of Reform: The Case of Urban Water Supply "
Comments by Roland Speklé (Erasmus)
4 March
Mozaffar Qizilbash (University of East Anglia)
"Value Incommensurability and Economic Analysis"
Comments by Gijs van Donselaar (Erasmus)
18 March
David Atkinson (University of Groningen)
"Galileo and A Priori Argument in Natural Science"
Comments by Hans Koeze (Erasmus)
8 April
Barbara Krug and László Pólos (Erasmus)
"Identities that Matter: Entrepreneurship in an Environment of High Uncertainty"
Comments by Päivi Oinas (Erasmus)
29 April
Michael Hutter (Witten/Herdecke University)
"The Role of Ambiguity in the Evolution of Economic Ideas: Four Episodes"
Comments by Arjo Klamer (Erasmus)
13 May
Harold Kincaid (University of Alabama)
"Scientific Realism and the Empirical Nature of Methodology"
Comments by Igor Douven (Erasmus)
27 May
Deirdre McCloskey (University of Illinois at Chicago and Erasmus)
"A Useable Ethics of the Virtues for a Useable Economics"
Comments by Theo van Willigenburg (Erasmsus)
Autumn 2001
24 September
Karl-Dieter Opp (University of Leipzig)
“When do norms emerge by human design and by the unintended consequences of human action? The example of the no-smoking norm”
Comments by Jack Vromen (Erasmus University)
8 October
Bertil Tungodden (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
"The value of equality"
Comments by Gijs van Donselaar (Erasmus University)
22 October
Bart Nooteboom (Erasmus University)
“Governance and competence: How can they be combined?”
Commentator TBA
5 November
Igor Douven (Erasmus University)
“Decision theory and the rationality of further deliberation”
Comments by Martin van Hees (University of Groningen)
19 November
Erik Weber (University of Ghent)
“Explanatory pluralism in the social sciences”
Comments by Frans Schaeffer (Erasmus University)
3 December
Jan Potters (Tilburg University)
"Culture and trust in a lemons market experiment"
Comments by Barbara Krug (Erasmus University)
17 December
Herman de Regt (Tilburg University)
"Observing economists: Empiricism and the science of economics"
Comments by Mark Blaug (Amsterdam and Erasmus)
Spring 2001
22 January
Uskali Mäki (Erasmus and NIAS)
"Theoretical isolation and explanatory progress: Transaction cost economics and the dynamics of dispute"
Comments by George Hendrikse (Erasmus University)
5 February
Wade Hands (University of Puget Sound and Erasmus)
"Economic methodology is dead - Long live economic methodology"
Comments by Maarten Janssen (Erasmus University)
19 February
Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University)
"Essential tensions between property and possession"
Comments by Slawomir Magala (Erasmus University)
5 March
Govert den Hartogh (University of Amsterdam and NIAS)
"Mutual expectations: A conventionalist theory of obligatory norms"
Comments by Theo van Willigenburg (Erasmus University)
9 March
Bruce Caldwell (University of North Carolina and the LSE)
“Hayek: Right for the wrong reasons?”
Comments by Wade Hands (University of Puget Sound and Erasmus)
2 April
John Davis (Marquette University and Erasmus)
"Agent identity in economics: The embedded individual of heterodox economics"
Comments by Jack Vromen (Erasmus University)
23 April
Richard Whitley (Manchester Business School and Erasmus)
"The restructuring of knowledge production in the late 20th century: The end of science as we know it?"
Comments by Loet Leydesdorff (University of Amsterdam)
21 May
László Pólos (Erasmus and NIAS) and Michael Hannan (Stanford University and NIAS)
"Reasoning with partial knowledge"
Comments by Igor Douven (Utrecht University)
Autumn 2000 Programme
25 September
Igor Douven (Utrecht University)
"Testing inference to the best explanation"
Comments by Hans Koeze (Erasmus University)
9 October
Gregory Dow (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
"Explaining the rarity of workers’ control. What can economic theory contribute?"
Comments by John Groenewegen (Erasmus University)
23 October
Michael Rushton (University of Regina, Canada)
"Economists and the Marketplace of Ideas"
Comments by Ruth Towse (Erasmus University)
6 November
Bart Nooteboom (Erasmus University)
"Generality, specificity and discovery"
Comments by Wilfred Dolfsma (Technical University Delft)
20 November
Gerrit Antonides (Erasmus University) and Fergus Bolger (University of Bilkent, Ankara)
“Dual processes in consumer choice: The dependence of preferences on modes of thought”
Comments by Joep Sonnemans (University of Amsterdam)
4 December
Ton Derksen (University of Nijmegen)
"Dennett’s consciousness explained and the seven rhetorical strategies of the sophisticated pseudo-scientist"
Comments by Gert-Jan Lokhorst (Erasmus University)
18 December
Jack Vromen (Erasmus University)
"What can be learned from ‘serious’ psychology and biology?"
Comments by Rudy Verburg (Erasmus University)
Spring 2000
2 February 2000
Laszlo Polos (Erasmus University)
"Identities and forms: Classifications in the social sciences"
Comments by Päivi Oinas (Erasmus University)
16 February 2000
Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University)
“The art of economic persuasion”
Comments by Frans Schaeffer (Erasmus University)
1 March 2000
Bruno Frey (University of Zurich)
"What is the effect of economics on the economy and society"?
Comments by Harry van Dalen (Scientific Council for Government Policy and Erasmus University)
15 March 2000
Uskali Mäki (Erasmus University)
"Economics imperialism: Concept and constraints"
Comments by Maarten Janssen (Erasmus University)
29 March 2000
Steve Fuller (University of Warwick)
“Knowledge management as a test case for the economics of science”
Comments by Jeroen van den Hoeven (Erasmus University)
12 April 2000
David Campbell (Cardiff University) and Matthias Klaes (Erasmus)
“Ronald Coase's political views at the time of writing 'The Nature of the Firm'“
Comments by Ben Elzas (Erasmus University)
3 May 2000
Jack Amariglio (Merrimack College) and David Ruccio (University of Notre Dame)
"Modern economics: The case of the missing body?"
Comments by Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University)
Autumn 1999
29 September 1999
Mark Blaug (University of Amsterdam and EIPE)
"The Formalist Revolution, or What Happened to Orthodox Economics After World War 2?"
Comments by Eric van Damme (CentER, Tilburg University)
13 October 1999
Nicolai Foss (Copenhagen Business School)
"Idealization in contract economics”
Comments by Uskali Mäki (Erasmus University)
27 October 1999
Matthias Klaes (Erasmus)
"The Diffusion of 'The Nature of the Firm': A Sociology of Error?"
Comments by Henk van den Belt (TU Eindhoven)
10 November 1999
George Hendrikse (Erasmus)
"Switching behavioral assumption in one organizational theory?"
Comments by Maarten Janssen (Erasmus University)
24 November 1999
Ekkehart Schlicht (University of Munich)
"Hume's Counterpoint - a Chapter on Property”
Comments by Heico Kerkmeester (Erasmus University)
8 December 1999
Edward McClennen (University of Bowling Green)
"Rational Society"
Comments by Jack Vromen (Erasmus University)
Spring 1999
27 January 1999
Barbara Krug (Erasmus)
"On customs in economics"
Comments by Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University)
10 February 1999
Jack Vromen (Erasmus)
"Evolutionary psychology and economic theory”
Comments by Hans-Cees Speel (Technical University of Delft)
24 February 1999
Matthias Klaes (Erasmus)
“The emergence of the concept of transaction costs: A case study in institutional history”
Comments by Albert Jolink (Erasmus University)
10 March 1999
Anthonie Meijers (Tilburg University and Technical University of Delft)
"The individual and the collective"
Comments by Theo van Willigenburg (Erasmus University)
24 March 1999
Claude Ménard (Sorbonne, Paris)
"The applicability of new institutional economics. The case of water supply"
Comments by Bart Nooteboom (NIAS and University of Groningen)
7 April 1999
John Groenewegen and Rudi Verburg (Erasmus)
"Economics and other social sciences: The issue of interdisciplinarity"
Comments by Judith Mehta (Erasmus University)
12 May 1999
Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire)
"Structure and institutions: Reflections on institutionalism, structuration theory and critical realism”
Comments by Uskali Mäki (Erasmus University)
Autumn 1998
16 September 1998
Aldo Geuna (Maastricht University and Université Louis Pasteur)
"The economics of university research behaviour:
Changes in the funding rationale of university research and unintended consequences”
Comments by H.J. van der Molen (Erasmus University)
30 September 1998
Terence Hutchison
"The Wealth of Nations and modern general equilibrium ‘theory’:
Should Adam Smith be regarded as a primitive forerunner of Arrow and Debreu?"
Comments by Uskali Mäki (Erasmus University)
14 October 1998
Arjo Klamer (Erasmus)
"The value of value"
Comments byTheo van Willigenburg (Erasmus University)
28 October 1998
Barry Smith (State University of New York at Buffalo)
"Social ontology"
Comments by Anthonie Meijers (Tilburg University)
11 November 1998
Albert Jolink (Erasmus)
“Moving the circles: T.W. Hutchison’s role in the dissemination of Otto Neurath’s physicalism in the UK”
Comments by Esther-Mirjam Sent (Erasmus)
25 November 1998
Esther-Mirjam Sent (University of Notre Dame and Erasmus)
"Bounded rationality on the rebound"
Comments by Maarten Janssen (Erasmus University)
9 December 1998
Sanjeev Goyal (Erasmus)
“Economic Theory: A Practitioner’s Viewpoint”
Comments by Jack Vromen (Erasmus University)
Spring 1998
28 January 1998
Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Ecole polytechnique, Paris)
"Projected equilibrium: Philosophical foundations of a new concept of equilibrium in the social sciences"
Comments by Sanjeev Goyal (Erasmus University)
11 February 1998
Daniel Hausman (University of Wisconsin and LSE)
"Revealed preference, belief and game theory"
Comments by Maarten Janssen (Erasmus University)
25 February 1998
Maarten Franssen (Technical University of Delft)
"The not so trivial truth of methodological individualism”
Comments by Jack Vromen (Erasmus and University of Amsterdam)
11 March 1998
Judith Mehta (Erasmus)
"Modes of agreement in inter-firm business relations ... histories, futures, promises and gifts”
Comments by Emiel Wubben (Erasmus Uniersity)
25 March 1998
James McAllister (University of Leiden)
"Is beauty a sign of truth in scientific theories?"
Comments by Hans Koeze (Erasmus University)
22 April 1998
Bruna Ingrao (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
"Equilibrium and the boundaries of economics: Pareto's logical and non-logical actions revisited"
Comments by Wil Arts (University of Tilburg)
6 May 1998
Silke Stahl (Max-Planck-Institut, Jena)
"Why is economics not an evolutionary science? A new interpretation of Veblen’s 1898 article"
Comments by John Groenewegen (Erasmus University)
20 May 1998
Uskali Mäki (Erasmus)
“The way the world works (www): An ontological constraint on theorizing”
Comments by Pieter Ruys (University of Tilburg)
Autumn 1997
24 September 1997
Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University)
“The loss of character in economics”
Hans Blom (Erasmus) comments
8 October 1997
Bart Nooteboom (University of Groningen)
"The foundations and limits of trust"
Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University) comments
22 October 1997
Max Albert (University of Konstanz)
"Bayesian learning and expectations formation: Anything goes"
Hugo Keuzenkamp (ESB and University of Tilburg) comments
5 November 1997
Albert Jolink (EUR) and Jack Vromen (EUR and University of Amsterdam)
"Path dependent structures in scientific evolution"
Edith Kuiper (University of Amsterdam) comments
19 November 1997
Hans Amman (University of Amsterdam)
"Computational economics"
Albert Jolink (Erasmus University) comments
3 December 1997
Maarten Janssen (Erasmus University)
"The nature of microeconomic theory"
Judith Mehta (Erasmus University) comments
17 December 1997
Abu Rizvi (University of Vermont)
"The evolution of game theory"
Maarten Janssen and Jack Vromen (Erasmus University) comment
Spring 1997
February 1997
Uskali Mäki (EUR)
"Free market economics of economics: Issues of reflexivity and consistency"
John Groenewegen (EUR) comments
19 February 1997
Jack Vromen (EUR and University of Amsterdam)
"If homo oeconomicus survived, who is he?"
Maarten Janssen (EUR) comments
5 March 1997
Maurice Lagueux (University of Montréal, Canada)
"Do metaphors affect economic theory?"
Albert Jolink (EUR) comments
19 March 1997
Alex Viskovatoff (EUR)
"Foundations of Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems"
Tannelie Blom (University of Maastricht) comments
9 April 1997
Viktor Vanberg (University of Freiburg, Germany)
"Evolution of rules and evolution within rules"
Jack Vromen (EUR and University of Amsterdam) comments
23 April 1997
Julian Lamont (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
"The problems of using efficiency to critique income tax proposals"
Arjo Klamer (EUR) comments
7 May 1997
Theo Kuipers (University of Groningen and NIAS)
"Truth approximation in physics and economics"
Hans Koeze (EUR) comments
Autumn 1996
25 September 1996
Hugo Keuzenkamp (University of Tilburg and LSE)
"Accommodation, prediction and simplicity in (econometric) inference"
Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam) comments
9 October 1996
Bert Hamminga (University of Tilburg)
"The concept of wage labor in economics"
Wim Groot (University of Leiden) comments
23 October 1996
Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham)
"Isolative strategies and controversy in monetary economics:
Friedman and Tobin on the quantity theory"
Arjo Klamer (EUR) comments
6 November 1996
Uskali Mäki (EUR) and Jack Vromen (EUR and University of Amsterdam)
"How far is Chicago from Frankfurt?
From Diskursethik to Sprachethik, or from arguing to marketing"
Deirdre McCloskey (University of Iowa and EUR) comments
20 November 1996
Ulrich Witt (Max-Planck-Institut, Jena)
"Economics and Darwinism"
Jack Vromen (EUR and University of Amsterdam) comments
4 December 1996
Alex Viskovatoff (EUR)
"To what does economic theory refer?"
Maarten Janssen (EUR) comments
Spring 1996 Programme
7 February 1996
Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam)
"Lucas and artificial economies"
21 February 1996
Mary Morgan (London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam)
"Irving Fisher's Models of Money"
6 March 1996
Uskali Mäki (EUR)
"Rhetoric is easy, conversation is difficult -- or, answering and really answering: A rejoinder to McCloskey"
Deirdre McCloskey (University of Iowa and EUR)
"But Conversation is All We Have"
20 March 1996
Arjo Klamer (EUR)
"The Children of Tinbergen"
24 April 1996
Leszek Nowak (University of Poznan)
"Some methodological peculiarities of economic models"
8 May 1996
Philip Pettit (Australian National University)
"Functional explanation and virtual selection"
15 May 1996
Albert Jolink (EUR)
"If history matters, then what is history? Path dependency and all that"
22 May 1996
Robert Sugden and Shaun Hargreaves Heap (University of East Anglia) and Maarten Janssen (EUR)
"The limits of game theory and beyond"
Autumn 1995
27 September 1995
Jack Birner (University of Maastricht)
"Is the past really not what it used to be?"
11 October 1995
Jack Vromen (EUR and University of Amsterdam)
"Institutions as tacit agreements in evolutionary games"
18 October 1995
Geert Reuten (University of Amsterdam)
"Two notions of tendency"
8 November 1995
Michel De Vroey (University of Louvain)
"The concept of involuntary unemployment from Keynes to the neo-Keynesians"
22 November 1995
Arjo Klamer (EUR) and Uskali Mäki (EUR)
"Rhetoric, McCloskey and me: Reflections on the exchange between Mäki and McCloskey in the Journal of Economic Literature, September 1995"
6 December 1995
Geoff Hodgson (University of Cambridge)
"What's wrong with Jack Vromen's Economic Evolution (Routledge 1995)"
Jack Vromen (EUR and University of Amsterdam) "What's wrong with Geoff Hodgson's Economics and Evolution (Polity Press 1993)"