Dear list members,

 

The latest issue of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE) is now available online at http://ejpe.org/. Please see below for an overview of the issue and visit our website for more!

 

EJPE is a peer-reviewed bi-annual academic journal supported by the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics at the Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam. EJPE publishes research on the methodology, history, ethics, and interdisciplinary relations of economics, and welcomes contributions from all scholars with an interest in any of its research domains. EJPE is an Open Access Journal: all the content is permanently available online without subscription or payment.

 

**OVERVIEW OF EJPE ISSUE 1, VOLUME 15, 2022**

 

ARTICLES 

Measuring Freedom: Towards a Solution to John Rawls’ Indexing Problem by Thomas Ferretti

The Case of Stated Preferences and Social Well-Being Indices by Shiri Cohen Kaminitz and Iddan Sonsino

“The Hardest of All the Problems”: Hochman, Rodgers, and Buchanan on Pareto Optimal Redistribution by Daniel Kuehn

Why ‘Indirect Discrimination’ Is a Useful Legal but Not a Useful Moral Concept by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

 

INTERVIEW

The Philosophy and Economics of Measuring Discrimination and Inequality: A Roundtable Discussion with Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Xavier Ramos, and Dirk Van de gaer

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Joshua L. Cherniss’s Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century by Jon Murphy

Randall G. Holcombe’s Coordination, Cooperation, and Control: The Evolution of Economic and Political Power by Vaios Koliofotis

Avia Pasternak’s Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their States’ Wrongdoings? by Solmu Anttila

Keith Tribe’s Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850–1950 by Erwin Dekker

 

PHD THESIS SUMMARIES

Thresholds and Limits in Theories of Distributive Justice by Dick Timmer

Desert, Luck, and Justice by Huub Brouwer

Choice Architecture: A Message and Environment Perspective by Luca Congiu

Unfair Inequality: From Measurement to Causal Drivers by Paul Hufe

Issues on the Measurement of Opportunity Inequality by Hugo del Valle-Inclán Cruces

Three Economic Extensions of John Rawls’s Social Contract Theory: European Union, Tax Compliance, and Climate Change by Klaudijo Klaser

Amartya Sen’s Earlier Conception of Economic Agents through the Origins and Development of his Capability Approach (1970–1993) by Valentina Erasmo