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 2, VOLUME 15, 2022

 

ARTICLE

Economic Modeling in Rawls: The Original Position by David C. Coker

 

BOOK SYMPOSIUM on Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise 

Social Engineers Changing the World: Tinbergen and Frisch’s Framing of Economics by Mariana Mortágua and Francisco Louçã

Reading Tinbergen Through the Lens of Max Weber by Thomas Kayzel

Ambiguity of Superiority and Authority: An Analysis of the Keynes-Tinbergen Debate by Jon Murphy

Jan Tinbergen’s Fallacy: Economic Expertise as an A-Political Endeavour by Michele Alacevich

Tinbergen on the Theory and Policy of Economic Development by Mauro Boianovsky

Probability and Statistics in the Tinbergen-Keynes Debates by William Peden

Jan Tinbergen and the Limits of Expertise: Response to My Critics by Erwin Dekker

 

CRITICAL COMMENT

Can Normative Accounts of Discrimination Be Guided by Anti-discrimination Law? Should They? A Critical Note on Sophia Moreau's Faces of Inequality: A Theory of Wrongful Discrimination by Rona Dinur

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Claudia Goldin’s Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity by Sarah F. Small

Ralph Hertwig, Timothy J. Pleskac, and Thorsten Pachur’s Taming Uncertainty by James Grayot

José Luis Bermúdez’s Frame It Again: New Tools for Rational Decision-Making by Bele Wollesen and Lukas Beck

Richard Pettigrew’s Dutch Book Arguments by Luc Lichtsteiner

Juliana Bidadanure’s Justice Across Ages: Treating Young and Old as Equals by Daniel Halliday

Jeff E. Biddle’s Progress through Regression: The Life Story of the Empirical Cobb-Douglas Production Function by Aiko Ikeo

 

PHD THESIS SUMMARIES

The Making and Unmaking of Ordoliberal Language: A Digital Conceptual History of European Competition Law by Anselm Küsters

Methodology and Microfoundations: A New Argument for an Autonomous Macroeconomics by Nadia Ruiz

Why We Need to Talk About Preferences: A Federalist Proposal by Lukas Beck

Attitudes First: Rationality Attributions and the Normativity of Rationality by Lisa Bastian