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Ph.D. student opening: Full-time 4-year appointment 
 
University of Amsterdam 
 
"Models, measurement, and economic policy" 
Methodology and History of Economics (Department of Economics [AE]) 
 
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Description: Models in economics are instruments of investigation that assist theory
development and facilitate empirical research. They also determine the ways in which
economic policy can be formulated, and affect which social values are the subject of
policy discussion. How do particular economic models generate or preclude particular
policy agendas? More specifically, how do models that employ a commodity-based approach
differ in this regard from models that employ a capabilities-based approach? Further, how
do these two kinds of models differ in terms of the ways in which they are
operationalized, both in connection with the question of what they measure and in
connection with the question of how they are part of an existing policy discourse? This
project combines philosophy and history of economics research with a case study approach.
 
Contact: Prof. dr. J. B. Davis 
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