About EIPE

Although researchers with a serious interest in economic methodology are scattered around the world, there is only one Ph.D. program in the field, at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Not surprisingly, this institute has attracted an outstanding faculty; and it regularly hosts as visitors all the leading figures in the field. It is a very special place which I regularly recommend to students interested in graduate studies in economic methodology.

Daniel Hausman
Herbert A. Simon and Hilldale Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

For over a decade now the EIPE has been a leading international center for research in the philosophy of economics, matched only by the London School of Economics.  It has been home to a group of outstanding scholars and teachers, a fine training ground for doctoral students, and a place of pilgrimage for the best of the world's researchers.

Philip Pettit
L.S.Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University

It is critically important that work in political philosophy be informed by work in the empirical social sciences, including economics. At the same time, work in economics inevitably raises a number of important philosophical questions, including questions of ethics.  There are few places where such interdisciplinary research takes place and fewer still which train students to draw out the connections between philosophy and economics.  EIPE is a welcome outlier, a place where inter-disciplinary conversations and research thrives. It was a pleasure to present my work to such a stimulating group of scholars.

I have had the opportunity of being in touch with, and visiting the Erasmus Institute of Philosophy of Economics and I can put on record how impressed I have been with what is being accomplished there in research, teaching, and general intellectual advancement of great social significance.  The activities going on at the EIPE are well conceived and well planned, and skillfully supported and led by experts in both economics and philosophy, to produce achievements of real distinction.

I attended a symposium at EIPE in June 2010 on philosophical work closely related to my own efforts.  The conference facilitated the presentation of some cutting-edge research in the philosophy of justice particularly related to the social sciences and economics.  Both in terms of the range of subjects covered and the quality of the papers presented, as well as the vigourous and productive nature of the discussions that followed the presentation of the papers, the symposium was a spectacular success.

I hope EIPE will continue to play the important role it is presently playing in sophisticated education and momentous research.  It has been my privilege to be associated with the Institute.

Amartya Sen
Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University