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Learning to Be Different: Quantitative Research in Economics and Political Science
(2012)The comment addresses the subtle differences that exist between economics and political science in terms of how the standards for the empirical quantitative research are set. It shows that the common methodology is applied ... -
Risk, Networks, and Ecological Explanations for the Emergence of Cooperation in Commons Governance
(2012)The commons literature increasingly recognizes the importance of contextual factors in driving collaboration in governance systems. Of particular interest are the ways in which the attributes of a resource system influence ... -
The Strength of Weak Affects
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Negative Goals and Identity: Revisiting Sen’s Critique of Homo Economicus
(2013)Sen's critique of the homo economicus conception of choice asserts that agents who `displace' their goals, and instead choose on the basis of others', are not therefore irrational. I first defend Sen against the objection ... -
Fairness That Money Can Buy. Procedural Egalitarianism in Practice
(2013)Contrary to communitarian market criticism institutions relying on money and bidding can strengthen faculties of `self-governance'. Securing procedurally egalitarian bidding on the basis of declared monetary evaluations ... -
Why the Conventionalist Needs the Social Contract (and Vice Versa)
(2013)The recent renaissance of work on conventions, informal institutions, and social norms has reminded us that between the state and individual choice is a network of informal social rules that are the foundation of our ... -
Conduct and Contract
(2013)Political philosophy relies on three alternative types of theory to explain social order. The first, is order anarchy, built on the system of spontaneous Humean conventions. They are equilibria, self-enforcing or enforced ... -
Nozick’s Proviso: Misunderstood and Misappropriated
(2013)After almost forty years, Robert Nozick's seminal right-libertarian classic Anarchy, State, and Utopia continues to stand at the center of much of the discussion regarding property and its initial acquisition. Nozick's ... -
External Validity and the New Inductivism in Experimental Economics
(2013)The idea of external validity, which is well-known in the social sciences, has recently also been emphasized in experimental economics. It has been argued that external validity is an important criterion in experimental ... -
Social Contract: The Last Word in Moral Theories
(2013)Most meta-ethical theories fail either for lack of real content or because they fail to make needed distinctions, or to give sufficient account of what a moral theory is about. Positing that values are intuited is useless ... -
Invisible Hand Processes and the Theory of Money
(2013)This paper explores, and rejects, the plausibility--advanced by a number of economists and recently re-affirmed by Robert Nozick--of employing an `invisible hand explanation' to account for the existence of money as a ... -
Hume and the Social Contract. A Systematic Evaluation
(2013)The article systematically explores the compatibility of Hume's political philosophy and contractarianism by reconstructing Hume's criticism of the idea of a social contract. In a nutshell, the dispute concerns the theoretical ... -
Achieving Pareto-Optimality: Invisible Hands, Social Contracts, and Rational Deliberation
(2013)I begin with two simple, similar interactions. In one, maximizing agents will reach a Pareto-optimal equilibrium, in the other, they won't. The first shows the working of the Invisible Hand; the second, its limitations. ... -
Commitment and Goals
(2013)In this Comment, I examine Christoph Hanisch's recent contribution to this journal. In commenting on Hanisch's essay, I offer an interpretation of Amartya Sen's notion of `commitment' which makes committed choices both ... -
Contractarianism as a Broad Church
(2013)I defend the claim, made in a previous paper, that `a Humean can be a contractarian', against the criticisms of Anthony de Jasay. Jasay makes a categorical distinction between `ordered anarchy' (which he associates with ... -
A Governing Convention?
(2013)In this essay I argue that one can understand the relationship between those who rule and those who are ruled in civil society as an implicit contractual relationship or contract by convention. I use variations of the ...