I've worked on identity, individual and social, for many years. Forthcoming in February is my third book on this:
Identity, Capabilities and Changing Economics
Identity, Capabilities and Changing Economics
The TOC is here.
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I've also been working on Stratification economics. Four papers that have appeared are:
"Stratification economics: Historical Origins and Theoretical Foundations" is forthcoming in Oxford Review of Economic Policy; at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4811012
“A general theory of social economic stratification: Stigmatization, exclusion, and capability shortfalls,” Review of Evolutionary Political Economy 3: 3 (2022): 493-513; also at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4126307
“Stratification Economics as an Economics of Exclusion,” Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy 2:3 (2019): 163-
172; also at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3328127
“Stratification economics and identity economics,” Cambridge Journal of Economics 39 (2015): 1215-1229.
Three working papers are:
Merve Burnazoglu and John Davis, "Building diversity into the philosophy and methodology of economics:
Stratification economics"
"Redirecting Economic Policy after the Pandemic: Expanding Black Reparations"
"Revising the Moral Arguments for US Black Reparations in light of the Economic Arguments"
My work on Stratification Economics is tied to how I treat individual identity. People are socially embedded in their social identities, both the relational and categorical kinds. The Review of Evolutionary Political Economy paper above is also the fifth chapter of my recent Identity, Capabilities and Changing Economics.
The unity of science and disunity of economics research group I work with has published the following papers:
Ambrosino, Angela, Mario Cedrini, and John Davis (2024) “Economics imperialism and economic imperialism: Two sides of the same coin,” Review of Political Economy.
Ambrosino, Angela, Mario Cedrini, and John Davis (2024) “Economics imperialism and economic imperialism: Two sides of the same coin,” Review of Political Economy.
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Ambrosino, Angela, Mario Cedrini, and John Davis (2024) “Todays’ Economics: One, No One and One Hundred Thousand,” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 31: 1.
Ambrosino, Angela, Mario Cedrini, and John Davis (2021) “The Unity of Science and Disunity of Economics,” Cambridge Journal of Economics 45: 4: 631–654.
Two working papers are:
"Mapping economics at a time of fragmentation: Elements to interpret interfield connections"
Angela Ambrosino, Mario Cedrini, Valentina Erasmo and John B. Davis
"Economics: Pluralism in Times of Fragmentation, and the Chances of Polycentrism "
Angela Ambrosino, Mario Cedrini, Valentina Erasmo and John B. Davis
Ambrosino, Angela, Mario Cedrini, and John Davis (2021) “The Unity of Science and Disunity of Economics,” Cambridge Journal of Economics 45: 4: 631–654.
Two working papers are:
"Mapping economics at a time of fragmentation: Elements to interpret interfield connections"
Angela Ambrosino, Mario Cedrini, Valentina Erasmo and John B. Davis
"Economics: Pluralism in Times of Fragmentation, and the Chances of Polycentrism "
Angela Ambrosino, Mario Cedrini, Valentina Erasmo and John B. Davis
Robert McMaster and I published a book on the concept of care in health care with Routledge in the Advances in Social Economics series:
Health Care Economics
The emphasis as in the italics in the title is on care. Standard health economics fails to account for the nature of care in health care. This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation of care, and therefore for the pattern of health and medical care provision. This book sets out an alternative approach that places care at the center of an economics of health, showing how essential it is that care is appropriately recognized in health care policy as a means of enhancing the dignity of the individual.
Also on health and the pandemic see:
John B. Davis, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Gerry McCartney, and Robert McMaster (2024) "Health economics and the COVID-19 pandemic,” Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare, eds. Robin Chang, Rodney Loeppky, and David Primrose, London: Routledge: 19-33.
John B. Davis (2022) “Managing Contagion: Covid-19, Public Health, and Reflexive Behavior,” Brazilian Journal of Political Economic 42: 3: 555-571. https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org/repojs/index.php/journal/article/view/2338
Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science
Marcel Boumans and I published in 2010 came out in a second edition in 2016. This is an introduction to the field of economic methodology, with a capstone chapter "Value Judgments in Economics." The new edition has applications at the end of each chapter that we believe make teaching the material interesting to students.
Also forthcoming methodology and philosophy of economics:
“The dynamic temporal sequence and reflexive adjustment behavior: Foundations for a behavioral alternative
to optimization theory,” Economic Thought: History, Philosophy, and Methodology https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4823745
“Emerging engagement between philosophy and philosophy of economics: Parfit, Simon, and Sen,” Episteme
I am editing with Ricardo Crespo and Giancarlo Ianulardo The Elgar Handbook of Teaching Philosophy to Economists. My chapter in the volume is:
“Making philosophy relevant to economists,” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4946879
John B. Davis, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Marquette University, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Amsterdam is author of Keynes’s Philosophical Development (Cambridge, 1994), The Theory of the Individual in Economics (Routledge, 2003), Individuals and Identity in Economics (Cambridge, 2011), and co-author with Marcel Boumans of Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science (Palgrave, 2010). He has been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, Cambridge University, Erasmus University, and Duke University. He was an editor of the Review of Social Economy, was co-editor with Wade Hands of the Journal of Economic Methodology, and is editor of the Routledge Advances in Social Economics book series. He is a past president or chair of the History of Economics Society, the International Network for Economic Method, and the Association for Social Economics, and is a past vice-president of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. He has taught two dozen different courses. His areas of research are economic methodology, identity in economics, Keynes, Sraffa, complexity, stratification economics, social economics, identity economics, capabilities, economics and ethics, and health economics.
