Douglas Bernheim (with his co-author Antonio Rangel) is a major contributor of the recent developments within the so-called ‘behavioral welfare economics’ (BWE) research program. BWE can be v...
I have a forthcoming paper in the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics on Ken Binmore’s theory of the social contract. This article especially focuses on the naturalistic features of Bi...
Consider the two following cases: Fission – Your right cerebral hemisphere and your left cerebral hemisphere are simultaneously and separately transplanted into the empty skulls of your two ide...
As I have been working on the relationships between economics and ethics for a couple of years now, I have had several times the opportunity to reflect on the way scholars are producing knowledge...
https://bargaininggame.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/how-to-produce-and-justify-knowledge-in-ethics/
Most economists and many decision theorists equate the notion of rationality with Bayesian rationality. While the assumption that individuals actually are Bayesian rational has been largely dispu...
https://bargaininggame.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/is-it-rational-to-be-bayesian-rational/
As Richard Thaler has just received a well-deserved ‘Nobel prize’ for his pioneering contribution in behavioral economics and behavioral finance, many commentators are reflecting over the sci...
Derek Parfit, one of the most influential contemporary philosophers, died last January. The day before his death, he submitted what seems to be his last paper to the philosophy journal Philosophy...
The philosopher and social scientist Jon Elster is well-known for his critical and insightful views about the (ir)relevance of rational choice theory (RCT) in the social sciences. Among his recen...
You will find below several working papers I have written recently on different (but somewhat related) topics. Comments are welcome! A Bayesian Conundrum: From Pragmatism to Mentalism in Bayesian...
https://bargaininggame.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/recent-working-papers/
Economics is sometimes characterized as the “science of rational choices over the allocation of scarce resources” or even more straightforwardly as the “science of choices”. In a recent b...
https://bargaininggame.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/accounting-for-choices-in-economics/