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International MPhil and PhD Programmes in Philosophy and Economics.
The Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics is a
multidisciplinary research institute and graduate school of the Erasmus
University of Rotterdam, founded in 1997. EIPE is offering MPhil and
PhD Programmess and is currently inviting applications for 2001-2002.
The MPhil Programme
The MPhil Programme is available to students with a master’s degree in
economics, philosophy and/or philosophy of economics (we will also
consider applications from those with a BA plus strong indications of
suitable qualifications). This programme takes one year and has a strong
emphasis on intensive course work. It is also possible to do some of
these courses without doing the whole program.
The PhD Programme
Students who have obtained their MPhil degree are encouraged to apply
for the PhD Programme. This includes submitting a research proposal
that falls within the scope of EIPE’s research programme. The efficiency
of the PhD Programme is enhanced by a very high professor-student ratio,
a teaching programme with a strong emphasis on writing research papers,
participation in ongoing research within the confines of the EIPE
research programme, and subsidiary supportive activities such as
research seminars, workshops, and contacts with visiting scholars.
The MPhil curriculum for 2001-2002 consists of the following courses:
-Advanced Philosophy and Methodology of Economics Uskali Mäki
-The Culture and Rhetoric of Economics Arjo Klamer and Deirdre
McCloskey
-Foundations of New Institutional Economics and Evolutionary Economics
Jack Vromen
-Empirical Studies in Institutional Economics John Groenewegen
-Reforming Public Utilities:
What Have We Learned from New Institutional Economics? (mini-course)
Claude Ménard - Paris I, Sorbonne
-Pluralism and the Study of Human Behaviour (mini-course) John Dupré
– Exeter and London
-One optional course out of a pool of courses EIPE Members
The language of teaching is English.
All courses will be offered in trimesters. During each trimester most of
the time is devoted to class preparation, writing of research papers,
and participation in seminars and workshops. Opportunities will be made
available for participating in exchange programs with partner
universities and research institutes abroad.
EIPE courses are open to a limited amount of external students attending
individual courses.
The EIPE Research Programme
Dissertation topics will fall within the range of the EIPE Research
Programme. The content of the program is based on the research and
ongoing conversations among the Institute Members, whose orientations
are diverse but complementary and overlapping.The Research Programme is
largely focused on the conceptual and philosophical foundations of the
economics of institutions and on the institutional foundations of
economics and science in general. There are four broad overlapping
themes within the program.
Theme A. Economics of Institutions
Theme B. Institutions of Economics
Theme C. Economics in Philosophy
Theme D. Philosophy in Economics
EIPE
Members
Gerrit Antonides (Erasmus) Economic psychology, Consumer behaviour,
Experiments
Mark Blaug (University of Amsterdam) History of economics, Methodology
of economics, Cultural economics,Economics of education
Sanjeev Goyal (Erasmus) Economic theory, Political economy
John Groenewegen (Erasmus) Economic organization, Institutional
economics
George Hendrikse (Erasmus) Corporate governance, Economic organization
theory, Marketing cooperatives, Methodology
Jeroen van Hoven (Erasmus) Ethics of information and communication
technology
Maarten Janssen (Erasmus) Microeconomics, Game theory, Internet
economics, Information economics
Arjo Klamer (Erasmus) Rhetoric, Culture of science, Cultural economics
Barbara Krug (Erasmus) Transaction costs economics, Institutional
economics, Entrepreneurship, China
Theo Kuipers (University of Groningen) Methodology, Research
programmes, Truth approximation, Design research
Deirdre McCloskey (University of Illinois at Chicago and Erasmus)
Economic history, Rhetoric of inquiry, Economics and literature,
Feminist economics
Uskali Mäki (Erasmus) Philosophy and methodology of economics,
Scientific realism and its rivals, Social epistemology, Social ontology
Bart Nooteboom(Erasmus) Organisation and governance,
Inter-organisational relations, Learning and innovation,
Entrepreneurship
Laszlo Polos (Erasmus) Logic and methodology, Philosophy of science and
epistemology, Organizational ecology, Organizational intelligence
Ruth Towse (Erasmus) Cultural economics, Economics of copyright
Jack Vromen (Erasmus) Contemporary evolutionary theory and economics,
Theoretical and philosophical aspects of evolutionary and new
institutional economics,Metatheoretical analyses of game-theoretic
accounts of conventions and institutions
Richard Whitley (Manchester Business School and Erasmus) Economic
sociology, Logics of comparative analysis, Institutional frameworks and
business systems, Innovation competences and strategies, National
research systems and patterns of technical change, Explanation in the
human sciences
Theo van Willigenburg (Erasmus) Meta-ethics, Foundations of normativity,
Conceptions of agency, Business ethics
Advisory board
Mark Blaug (Amsterdam)
Eric van Damme (Tilburg)
Paul David (Stanford and Oxford)
Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Paris and Stanford)
Daniel Hausman (Wisconsin at Madison)
Theo Kuipers (Groningen)
Deirdre McCloskey (Iowa)
Claude Ménard (Paris)
Mary Morgan (LSE and Amsterdam)
Philippe van Parijs (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Philip Pettit (Australian National University)
Amartya Sen (Cambridge)
Robert Sugden (East Anglia)
Raimo Tuomela (Academy of Finland)
Viktor Vanberg (Freiburg)
Oliver Williamson (UC Berkeley)
Ulrich Witt (Max-Planck-Institut)
Stefano Zamagni (Bologna)
Visitors
Research visitors are an important part of our programme. Visitors are
invited to give seminars, to participate in workshops and conferences,
to give brief courses, to spend their sabbaticals at Erasmus, and to do
postdoc research at EIPE. Among those who have spent a period at EIPE
are Terence Hutchison, Daniel Hausman, Alex Viskovatoff, Esther-Mirjam
Sent, Geoff Hodgson, Matthias Klaes, Gregory Dow, Wade Hands, John
Davis. We welcome your interest. As EIPE is a small research institute
with limited funding and office space, those interested in visiting our
institute are requested to apply at least six months prior to the
proposed visit.
How to contact EIPE and to get more information
Address:
Oostmaaslaan 950-952, Rotterdam
Postal address:
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
Erasmus University of Rotterdam
Postbus 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Phone:+31-10-408 8967
Fax: +31-10-2120 448
Internet: E-mail address: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://www.eur.nl/fw/philecon/
The EIPE premises
The Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics is located by the
river Maas in a beautiful building designed by the famous architect
Rietveld. The building provides office space for faculty and PhD
students, thus creating a stimulating intellectual environment. The
seminars, workshops and classes take place in the same building and on
the nearby Woudestein campus of the university.
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