Deadline approaching!

New article with @timkriegerfr.bsky.social on the “deficit–populism double bind”. We argue for a contemporary ordoliberal reform agenda to ease fiscal pressure, curb populism, and revive positive-sum politics in liberal democracies. lnkd.in/eRC28ytN

🎓 Call for applications – 4th Lake Como INEM Summer School in Philosophy of Economics, Villa del Grumello (Como), 7–12 June 2026. Open to PhD students, young scholars & advanced MA students. Deadline 31 Jan 2026. More information: phileco4.lakecomoschool.org

Happy that my article w Ivan Mitrouchev "From heuristics and biases to agency” is out in Mind & Society. We trace how behavioral economics’ normative benchmarks evolved and argue for more agency-centered, co-created standards in behavioral public policy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

INEM has a LinkedIn Page now. Please consider following it if you want to connect with scholars exploring the philosophy and methodology of economics worldwide www.linkedin.com/company/inte...

You might have missed great book reviews in the latest issues of EJHET. In 32(4), Tribe, Le Chapelain, Marcuzzo, @ivan-moscati.bsky.social @massaf.bsky.social reviewed books by Drakopoulos & Katselidis, Mosca, Garegnani, Zappia, and @vhalsmayer.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

New working paper (with @timkriegerfr.bsky.social): "How to Address the Deficit-Populism Double Bind? A Contemporary Ordoliberal Perspective" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Save the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026. Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics. Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy. Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan. More information forthcoming. @catemar.bsky.social @rseri.me

This coming April, Mario Rizzo and I will host a workshop at NYU: "Rethinking Behavioral Economics and Policy: Current Challenges and New Directions" 📍 New York University 📅 April 9–10, 2026 More information about the workshop and on how to submit abstracts: www.ibppa.org/nyu-ibppw

New article (OA!) published in Constitutional Political Economy: I explore Frank Knight’s idea of freedom as self-constitution, the risks of adaptation, and the role of public discussion in liberal societies. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New blog post alert! I argue that recommender systems simplify choices and surface personalized content but also leverage behavioral biases in ways that undermine users’ autonomy and thus call for (nuanced) public policies bppblog.com/2025/09/02/a...

Games help us understand life, @annieduke.com tells @jennygrankin.bsky.social—the best games involve the two things that characterize life and provide the context for the decisions we make—skill, and luck: buff.ly/yMQsF7u

It’s finally out! Our paper on Hayekian Psychological Economics is published in JEM. We argue that Hayek’s theoretical psychology offers valuable insights into learning processes, often overlooked by the heuristics-and-biases tradition in behavioral economics www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EUZIF...

New working paper on a 'hot' topic in @bppjournal.bsky.social: "Personalized Nudging and the Optimality Problem" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Just published the introductory essay to an issue (OA! 😀) of @bppjournal.bsky.social I've been co-editing in honor of Mario Rizzo; with articles by Adam Oliver, Gerd Gigerenzer, Shaun Hargreaves Heap, George Loewenstein, Nick Chater, and Cass Sunstein, among others www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

AI can reinforce biases, amplify overconfidence, and mislead. It can also enhance human reasoning, improve efficiency, and even help us make better decisions. The difference is how we engage with it, argues Matt Grawitch: buff.ly/ltIT2ot

Essential democracy reading: How will we know when we have lost our democracy? By Steven Levitsky, @lucanway.bsky.social, and @dziblatt.bsky.social. Gift link ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

New working paper: A BRIEF HISTORY OF NORMATIVITY IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS. We discuss different interpretations of “irrational” behavior and how these interpretations led to different policy ideas over the last few decades www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New article out! @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social and I explore different notions of autonomy in behavioral public policy, highlighting the role of public deliberation in fostering autonomy as self-constitution—the capacity to reflect critically on one's goals, aspirations, and identity rdcu.be/ee730

Happy and proud to announce that the 17th History of Recent Economics Conference will happen at Radboud University, 23-24 October 2025! hisreco.wordpress.com/2023/06/21/c...

On the Columbia capitulation open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

Kahneman’s tryst with reasonableness: a tease unfulfilled? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Solomon Salim Moore, academic curator, at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, talks in @nytimes.com about growing up in Altadena. Bobby Bradford, a former lecturer in music at Pomona, is also mentioned in the story. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/a...

@maltedold.bsky.social has written a very generous review of my book for Utilitas: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We cannot make decisions outwith a frame of reference—which has two key components: the decision context and our own psychological context (both shaping each other). That is why Decision Making is always personal (and subjective): https://buff.ly/40enXaT

1/ 📢 Proud that our chapter "Market Democracy, Rising Populism, and Contemporary Ordoliberalism", co-authored by @maltedold.bsky.social and me, is part of this volume!

I wrote a review of "A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing" by @MarkFabian_PAIS; it is a thought-provoking, bold book recommendable to any scholar working on wellbeing, welfare, and agency in economics, psychology, philosophy, and public policy analysis www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Easterlin’s work, along with that of Sen and Kahneman, was pivotal in keeping me engaged with economics as an undergraduate. Thank you, RAE!

WaPo article also cites this cool study showing people prefer songs that were released when they an average of 17.6 yo (tho rather flat 10-30yo) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New working paper on Frank Knight's views on preference adaptation and lessons we can draw for modern political economy: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

For all the PPE folks out there: We're co-organizing a PPE+L conference in Bangalore, India, Dec 11-14, 2025. CFA deadline: Jan 15, 2025. Please share widely and spread the word! ppel.tenureslack.com/call-for-abs...

Ever wondered why Frank H. Knight continues to inspire scholars (myself included)? Check out Scott Gordon’s thoughtful tribute published in JPE in 1974 two years after Knight’s passing: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

1. Adam Oliver, LSE, 9th December www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/... #BehaviouralScience #PublicPolicy #Autonomy #BehSci #PoliticalScience

"What If I’m Wrong?" by Daniel Dennett Good thinkers frequently ask themselves this question, the way good doctors frequently check their practices against the Hippocratic oath they swore. behavioralscientist.org/ive-been-thi...

The Department of Economics at Pomona College is hiring a tenure-track professor specializing on Energy Policy. www.pomona.edu/administrati... Pomona is a great place to work, p Please feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions.