----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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. ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]