John B. Davis

Marquette University - Department of Economics

Professor, Economics

P.O. Box 1881

Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881

United States

University of Amsterdam

Professor emeritus, History and Philosophy of Economics

Amsterdam

Netherlands

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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“  I have published a third book on individuals and identity, one in which I develop a reflexive capabilities-based adaptive individual conception alternative to homo economics  ”

Scholarly Papers (72)

1.

Turn in Recent Economics and Return of Orthodoxy

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Aug 2007
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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recent economics, orthodoxy, heterodoxy, core-periphery

2.

Social Capital and Social Identity: Trust and Conflict

Social Capital and Economics: Social Values, Power, and Identity, A. Christoforou and J. Davis, eds., London: Routledge, 2014, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 04 Dec 2013
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 356 (173,661)

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social capital, social networks, social identity, Putnam, conflict analysis

3.

The Homo Economicus Conception of the Individual: An Ontological Approach

HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS, Uskali Mäki, vol. ed., Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, John Woods. gen. eds., Elsevier, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Mar 2010
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Homo economicus, identity conditions, multiple selves, social identity

4.

Economists’ Odd Stand on the Positive-Normative Distinction: A Behavioral Economics View

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Mar 2013
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 317 (196,689)
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value neutrality, Robbins, Putnam, fact-value entanglement, loss aversion

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Economics Imperialism Under the Impact of Psychology: The Case of Behavioral Development Economics

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Sep 2012
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 310 (201,473)
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economics imperialism, choice heuristics, behavioral development economics

6.

Douglass North, New Institutional Economics, and Complexity Theory

Forthcoming in Elgar Handbook: Institutions and Complexity: Emergent Institutions in a Complex World, Lee J. Alston, Eric C. Alston, and Bernardo Mueller, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing Edward Elgar Publishing
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Feb 2024
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Douglass North, New Institutional Economics, complexity theory, cognitive science, scaffolding, Andy Clark, violence

7.

Identity and Individual Economic Agents: A Narrative Approach

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Jun 2008
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 260 (241,695)
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individuals, personal identity, Korsgaard, individual identity, social identity, Livet, social scaffolding

8.

Is Mainstream Economics a Science Bubble?

Forthcoming in Review of Political Economy
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Oct 2017
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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reflexity, science bubble, Soros, Samuelson, recent economics

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Agency and the Process Aspect of Capability Development: Individual Capabilities, Collective Capabilities, and Collective Intentions

Filosofía de la Economía, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Jul 2015
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 239 (262,866)

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Sen, process aspect, Granovetter, collective capabilities, self, collective intentions, social identity

10.

Mark Blaug on the Historiography of Economics

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Jun 2012
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 233 (269,305)
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Blaug, historiography, Samuelson, economics of scientific knowledge, process-conception of competition, path-dependency, evolutionary view

11.

The Individual in Recent Economics: Internalist and Externalist Conceptions

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Mar 2008
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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individual, prospect theory, preference construction, social preference, Bacharach, Ross, civil happiness

12.

Soros's Reflexivity Concept in a Complex World: Cauchy Distributions, Rational Expectations, and Rational Addiction

Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol. 20, No. 4 (2013)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 19 Oct 2013
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Extending Behavioral Economics’ Methodological Critique of Rational Choice Theory to Include Counterfactual Reasoning

Forthcoming in Journal of Behavioral Economics and Policy
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Sep 2018
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 195 (318,630)
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problem of deduction, modal reasoning, counterfactual conditionals, nudge, reflexive agents

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Kenneth Boulding as a Moral Scientist

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 29 Jun 2011
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Boulding, moral science, general systems theory, three systems view, evolutionary economics

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Behavioral Economics and the Positive-Normative Distinction: Sunstein's Choosing Not to Choose and Behavioral Economics Imperialism

Éthique et Économique (Ethics and Economics), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Oct 2017
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 188 (329,502)

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Positive-Normative, Putnam, Sunstein, Freedom, Economics Imperialism

16.

Economics, Neuroeconomics, and the Problem of Identity

Forthcoming in Schmollers Jahrbuch 136 (2016)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Apr 2016
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 182 (339,399)

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neuroeconomics, mainstream economics, isolated science, identity, revealed preference, circularity, MRI, distributed cognition

17.

A Complexity Theory of Financial Cycles With Reflexive Agents

Forthcoming in Review of Evolutionary Political Economy
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Apr 2020
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 178 (346,205)
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reflexivity, feedback, complexity, boom-bust, Soros, judgment, Minsky

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Agent-Based Modeling's Open Methodology Approach: Simulation, Reflexivity, and Abduction

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Sep 2017
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 174 (353,155)
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agent-based modeling, simulation, generative science, reflexivity, abduction, social science model of economics, emergence

19.

Social Identity Strategies in Recent Economics

Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 05-078/2
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Aug 2005
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 173 (354,936)
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Identity, personal identity, reflexivity, individual objective function

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Pluralism and Anti-Pluralism in Economics: Homo Economicus and Religious Fundamentalism

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 16 Nov 2011
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 170 (360,386)
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pluralism in economics, Homo economicus, religion and economics, fundamentalism

21.

The Continuing Relevance of Keynes's Philosophical Thinking: Reflexivity, Complexity, and Uncertainty

Forthcoming in Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Dec 2016
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 164 (371,758)
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Keynes, Complexity, Reflexivity, Non-Ergodic, Policy Activism, Uncertainty, Time

22.

Bounded Rationality and Bounded Individuality

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Jun 2014
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 163 (373,708)
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bounded rationality, bounded individuality, nudge economics, agent-based modeling, social identity theory, Marseille fish market

23.

Neuroeconomics and Identity

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 14 Dec 2013
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 162 (375,658)
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neuroeconomics, philosophy of science, instrumentalism, formalism, decision-maker autonomy, identity

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Identity and Democracy: Linking Individual and Social Reasoning

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 Aug 2007
John B. Davis and Solange Regina Marin
Marquette University - Department of Economics and Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM/CESNORS), Brazil
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identity, democracy, individual reasoning, social reasoning, essential capabilities

25.

Samuels on Methodological Pluralism in Economics

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Feb 2012
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Samuels, methodological pluralism, economic methodology, economics profession

26.

Economics Imperialism versus Multidisciplinarity

History of Economic Ideas, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Oct 2015
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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economics imperialism, Lazear, Chicago School, interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, performative, science naturalism, Wittgenstein, pluralism

27.

Ethics and Economics: A Complex Systems Approach

Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics, OUP, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 May 2018
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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ethics and economics, complex systems, mainstream economics, social economics, positive-normative distinction, efficiency, externalities, cost-benefit, capabilities, off limits, taming the market

28.

Sraffa on the Open vs. ‘Closed Systems’ Distinction and Causality

Forthcoming in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Jul 2017
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 142 (418,825)
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Sraffa, open-closed distinction, objectivism, Bertalanffy, Wittgenstein, Gramsci, causality

29.

Justifying Human Rights: Economics and the Individual

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 26 May 2008
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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human rights, economic rights, Homo economicus, socially embedded individual conception

30.

Social economics

Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Political Economy
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 May 2021
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 132 (443,616)

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social economics, Review of Social Economy, moral limits of markets, taming the market, value neutrality, human dignity

31.

Counterfactual Thinking and Attribute Substitution in Economic Behavior

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Jan 2021
John B. Davis and Theodore Koutsobinas
Marquette University - Department of Economics and Department of Management Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Downloads 130 (449,071)
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counterfactual thinking, attribute substitution, Knightian uncertainty, rational imagination, economic behavior, Homo sapiens

32.

Complex Individuals: The Individual in Non-Euclidian Space

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 May 2008
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 130 (449,071)
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space, individual conception, evolutionary-complexity-computational, Potts, Mirowski

33.

Making Philosophy Relevant to Economists

The Elgar Handbook of Teaching Philosophy to Economists, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Oct 2024
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 129 (451,765)

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economics, philosophy, reconciliation problem, present bias, individual identity, justice, Rawls, institutions, economics

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The Capabilities Conception of the Individual

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Aug 2009
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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individual conception, capabilities, social identity, self-organization

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Obituary: Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011)

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 15 Dec 2011
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Samuels, institutionalism, matrix approach, invisible hand

36.

Stratification Economics as an Economics of Exclusion

Forthcoming, Journal of Race, Economics, and Policy
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Feb 2019
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 126 (460,107)
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stratification, social group identity, complex systems, local public goods, common pool goods, exclusion, political alliance

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Rawlsian Individuals: From the 'Lab' to Adaptation

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 27 Jun 2008
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Rawls, individuals, experiment, complex systems

38.

Change and Continuity in Economic Methodology and Philosophy of Economics

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 25 Jan 2021
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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economic methodology, philosophy of economics, meta-field, technology evolution, specialization, crossdisciplinarity, pluralism

39.

Keynes’s Treatise on Probability 100 Years Later: Small vs. large worlds and closed vs. open systems

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Jan 2022
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Keynes, Treatise on Probability, Savage, small worlds, closed worlds, open systems, closed systems, Sraffa, Wittgenstein

40.

Stratification Economics with Identity Economics

Forthcoming Cambridge Journal of Economics
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Oct 2014
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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stratification, social identity, intersectionality, personal identity, stigma, identity-threat

41.

The Change in Sraffa’s Philosophical Thinking

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Jan 2011
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Sraffa, supervenience physicalism, objectivism, physical real cost, Neurath, Carnap, Wittgenstein

42.

Objectivity in Economics and the Problem of the Individual

Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Methodology
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Mar 2023
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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objectivity in science, science practices, Homo economicus, value-blindness, fatalism, science bubble

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Economics as a Normative Discipline: Value Disentanglement in an ‘Objective’ Economics

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 Dec 2021
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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positive, normative, fact-value entanglement, individual realisation, capability, disciplinarity

44.

Specialization, Fragmentation, and Pluralism in Economics

Forthcoming in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 26: 2 (2019)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Nov 2018
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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specialization, fragmentation, pluralism, innovation-diffusion, internationalization

45.

Hodgson, Cumulative Causation, and Reflexive Economic Agents

Institutions and the Evolution of Capitalism, Essays in Honour of Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Francesca Gagliardi and David Gindis, editors, Edward Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 12 Aug 2016
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 98 (553,032)

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Hodgson, Veblen, cumulative causation, reflexive agents, completeness assumption

46.

Transformation Without Paternalism

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Jan 2016
John B. Davis and Thomas R. Wells
Marquette University - Department of Economics and Leiden University - Institute for Philosophy
Downloads 98 (553,032)
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human development policy, personal identity, paternalism, informed consent, autonomy, democracy, capability approach

47.

Sheila Dow’s Open Systems Methodology

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 12 Oct 2022
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Open systems, Babylonian, Euclidian, structured pluralism, critical realism, Samuels, Sraffa

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Economics and Economic Methodology in a Core-Periphery Economic World

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 04 Feb 2019
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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core-periphery, economics and other disciplines, economic methodology, uneven development, specialization, formal modeling, empirical turn

49.

Stratification economics: Historical Origins and Theoretical Foundations

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 May 2024
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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stratification economics, intergroup inequality, caste, social groups, Ricardo, Marx, Lewis, Du Bois, Veblen, Blumer, social identity theory, goods taxonomy, stigmatization, intersectionality

50.

A Road Not Taken? A Brief History of Care in Economic Thought

Forthcoming in European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Oct 2019
John B. Davis and Robert McMaster
Marquette University - Department of Economics and Glasgow University
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care, Smith, feminist economics, Boulding, social provisioning

51.

A Contextualist Approach to Health Economics

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 19 Jul 2021
John B. Davis and Robert McMaster
Marquette University - Department of Economics and Glasgow University
Downloads 84 (608,403)
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Contextualism, Polanyi, Social Embeddedness, Grossman, Health Systems, Behavioral Economics

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Situating Care in Mainstream Health Economics: An Ethical Dilemma?

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 Oct 2014
John B. Davis and Robert McMaster
Marquette University - Department of Economics and University of Glasgow - Department of Business and Management
Downloads 82 (616,964)
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care; health care; health economics; externality; altruism; social capital

53.

Teaching Economics and Ethics

Forthcoming in Teaching Ethics to economists: a plurality of perspectives edited by Ioana Negru, Craig Duckworth and Imko Meyenburg Edward Elgar Publishing
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 06 Oct 2022
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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economics and ethics, teaching, interdisciplinary, health care

54.

Lawson on Veblen on Social Ontology

Forthcoming in: What is this ‘school’ called neoclassical economics? Debating the issues, ed. Jamie Morgan, Routledge
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Aug 2015
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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neoclassical economics, Veblen, Lawson, closed systems, cumulative causation, reflexivity

55.

Change In and Changing Economics

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Jul 2022
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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change, boundaries, interdisciplinary, core-periphery, research practices, world values survey, open-closed

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Explaining Changing Individual Identity: Two Examples From the Financial Crisis

Forthcoming in International Journal of Pluralism in Economic Education
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 26 Mar 2018
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Identity, Self-Narrative, Social Groups, Self-Concept, Financial Crisis, Pluralism

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Economics Imperialism and Economic Imperialism: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Forthcoming in Review of Political Economy
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Sep 2023
Angela Ambrosino, Mario A. Cedrini and John B. Davis
University of Turin, Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis, University of Turin - Department of Economics S. Cognetti de Martiis and Marquette University - Department of Economics
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economic imperialism, economics imperialism, Rodrik, Golden Straitjacket, Ricardo, financialization, reverse imperialism, pluralism

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A General Theory of Social Economic Stratification: Stigmatization, Exclusion, and Capability Shortfalls

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Jun 2022
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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social group identity, stratification, selective stigmatization, capability devaluation, social exclusion, capability deficit, complexity, discrimination, reparations

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‘Openness’ as a Methodological Principle of Sraffa’s Economic Thinking

Forthcoming in A Reflection on Sraffa’s Revolution in Economic Theory, edited by Ajit Sinha
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 06 Nov 2019
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
Downloads 65 (697,885)
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Sraffa, political economy, fragmentation, open-closed, pluralism, Gramsci

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Attribute Substitution, Counterfactual Thinking, and Heterodox Economics

Journal of Behavioral Economics and Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 May 2021
John B. Davis and Theodore Koutsobinas
Marquette University - Department of Economics and Department of Management Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Downloads 62 (714,536)
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attribute substitution, counterfactual thinking, adjustment behavior, automatic versus reflective, heterodox economics

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The Sea Battle Tomorrow: The Identity of Reflexive Economic Agents

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Mar 2020
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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reflexivity, Simon, Aristotle, identity, self-fulfilling prophecy

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Deepening and Widening Social Identity Analysis in Economics

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 28 Sep 2021
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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social identity, social groups, social roles

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John Tomer’s Reconceptualization of the Concept of Human Capital

Constructing a More Scientific Economics: John Tomer’s Pluralistic and Humanistic Economics, Morris Altman, ed., Palgrave
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 May 2021
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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human capital, human development, social capital, personal capital, inequality, capabilities

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Comment on White on the Relationship Between Economics and Ethics

Forthcoming in Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 18 Oct 2018
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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crossdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, trolley problem, domestication, specialization, complexity

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Emerging Engagement Between Philosophy and Philosophy of Economics: Parfit, Simon, and Sen

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Jan 2025
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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philosophy of economics, mainstream, heterodox/non-mainstream, Parfit, Simon, Sen, temporal sequence

66.

Richard Arena on Sraffa and Wittgenstein

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Jan 2024
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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Arena, Sraffa, Wittgenstein, surplus product, language games, open-closed systems

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What Are Reflexive Economic Agents? Position-Adjustment, SLAM, and Self-organization

Forthcoming in Handbook of Complexity Economics, editors Ping Chen, Wolfram Elsner, Andreas Pyka, London, New York: Routledge.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 31 May 2023
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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reflexive agents, complex systems, position-adjustment, SLAM robotics research, phase transitions, Minsky, Simon

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Managing Contagion: COVID, Public Health, and Reflexive Behavior

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Apr 2022
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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COVID-19, contagion, self-fulfilling prophecy, public health, experts, club goods, common pool goods, public choice, democratic deliberation

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The Dynamic Temporal Sequence and Reflexive Adjustment Behavior: Foundations for a Behavioral Alternative to Optimization Theory

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 May 2024
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics
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temporal sequences, fatalism, reflexive adjustment, future-past uncertainty, open economic thinking

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The Turn in Recent Economics and Return of Orthodoxy

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 349-366, 2008
Posted: 20 Jun 2008
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics

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Recent economics, Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, Core-periphery

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Akerlof and Kranton on Identity in Economics: Inverting the Analysis

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 31, Issue 3, pp. 349-362, 2007
Posted: 16 Jun 2008
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics

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Identity in economics, Social identity approach, Sociological approach to identity, Personal identity objection function, Recent economics

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The Conception of the Individual in Non-Cooperative Game Theory

Tinbergen Institute Working Paper No. 03-095/2
Posted: 07 Dec 2003
John B. Davis
Marquette University - Department of Economics

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conceptions of individuals; Harsanyi; games of incomplete information; fixed point theorems; Nash equilibrium.