I presented “Change in and Changing Economics” at the 25th ESHET Summer School in History of Economic Thought, Economic Philosophy and Economic History, “The evolving future of economics. How data and techniques, specialization, and other disciplines are reshaping the dismal science and economists’ work,” Università di Torino, Campus Luigi Einaudi, August 28 - September 1, 2023.
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At the 50th History of Economic Society meetings in Vancouver I presented my forthcoming paper on the origins and theoretical foundations of Stratification Economics.
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At the recent 2023 International Network for Economic Method meetings in Venice I presented a chapter from my forthcoming book on identity and capabilities. The chapter reviews embodied cognition literatures, including Simon's views. Embodied cognition is an alternative to the standard Cartesian view that cognition occurs only within the person.
Slides from the presentation attached:
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I presented a keynote address 20 April 2022 "Change in Economics and Changing Economics" at the recent 8th Conference of the Latin American Society for the History of Economics (ALAHPE) in Montevideo. This was drawn from the last chapter of a book I've recently finished:
Individuality, capabilities, and change in economics: From the unembedded to socially embedded individual
The slides from the talk are below. Pictures from all three conference keynotes are at: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzLrXX
Individuality, capabilities, and change in economics: From the unembedded to socially embedded individual
The slides from the talk are below. Pictures from all three conference keynotes are at: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzLrXX
| change_alaphe.pdf |
My presentation 9 December 2021at the Fourth Annual" Women in Macroeconomics" conference, 'Who is the ‘individual’ in Macroeconomics? organized by Carolina Alves and Angus Armstrong, examined social identity intersectionality and its relation to personal identity.
The slides from the talk are here:
| women_in_macro.pdf |
| women_in_macroeconomics_-_9_december_2021_-_programme.pdf |
At SocSim Fest 2021, 15-17 March, organized by Gabriel Brida, I presented "Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation in Macroeconomics" on the open system character of complexity in economics. Slides are here:
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"Unity of Science and Disunity of Economics" by Angela Ambrosino, Mario Cedrini, and John Davis was presented at the 16th Annual STOREP conference 28 June 2019. The paper appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Economics in July 2021. Slides are here:
| uos_storep_2019.pdf |
"Economics and Economic Methodology in a Core-Periphery World" presented to the Portuguese Association for Political Economy October 23, 2014 and to the Amsterdam Research Group in History and Philosophy of Economics October 25, 2018.
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"Specialization, fragmentation, and pluralism in economics," Presented at “The Fragmentation of Economics and the New Role of the History of Economic Thought,” an International workshop funded by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHETGrant 2015), Torino, Italy, September 14-15, 2017, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, and at “International circulation of economic ideas, globalization and national histories of economic thought,” the SeventhCentre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, International Seminar on the Foundations of Economics, Faculty of Economics, September 29-30, 2017. In The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 26: 2 (2019)
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"Agent-Based Modeling's Open Methodology Approach: Simulation, Reflexivity, and Abduction,"
66th International Congress of the French Economic Association June 19, 2017, and at the 13th conference of the International Network for Economic Method August 31, 2017
(Davis, John B., Agent-Based Modeling's Open Methodology Approach: Simulation, Reflexivity, and Abduction (September 2, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3031223)
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"The Sea Battle Tomorrow: The Identity of Reflexive Economic Agents," Economics in the Era of Natural Computationalism and Big Data conference, Durham, North Carolina, November 13-15, 2016
"Behavioral economics and the positive-normative distinction: Sunstein’s Choosing Not to Choose and behavioral economics imperialism," GREDEG, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, October 25, 2016
"Economie et philosophie," GREDEG, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France,October 21, 2016
"The Continuing Relevance of Keynes's Philosophical Thinking: Reflexivity, Complexity, and Uncertainty," The Relevance of Keynes to the Contemporary World: Eighty Years Since The General Theory, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino, Italy, October 13-15, 2016
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"The Sea Battle Tomorrow: The Identity of Reflexive Economic Agents," 3rd International Conference Economic Philosophy Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 15-16, 2016.
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"Economics Imperialism versus Multidisciplinarity," STOREP, June 11, 2015, Torino, Italy.
“Stratification economics and identity economics,” GREDEG, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, June 9, 2015.
At Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, REGARDS, I was a Professeur Invité, May 2015. One lecture concerned health capabilities:
| health_capabilities_davis.pdf |
"The Future of Economics," Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), Institute for New Economic Thinking annual meeting, April 16, 2015.
| future_of_economics.pdf |
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"Economics as a Performative Science in a Stratified World," Economics and Power Symposium, House of Lords, London, March 23, 2015
Other presentations:
"Economists' Odd Stand on the Positive-Normative Distinction: A Behavioral Economics View," Association for Social Economics/Allied Social Sciences Association annual meetings, Boston, January 3, 2015
"What are reflexive economic agents? Position-adjustment, SLAM, and self-organization," 18th European Society for the History of Economic Thought Conference, Universite de Lausanne, May 30, 2014
“Moving economics’ individual conception forward,” Workshop on Individuals in Science, Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, November 18, 2013
"Soros; Reflexivity Concept in a Complex World: Cauchy Distributions, Rational Expectations, and Rational Addiction," Workshop on Reflexivity, Central European University, October 8, 2013.
“Social Capital and Social Identity: Trust and Conflict,” Workshop on Economic Methodology, Boğaziçi University, June 4, 2013
"Neuroeconomics and Identity in Economics," Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory,
http://cissct.duke.edu/calendar, Duke University, April 12, 2013
“Foundations of Social Economics,” Lecture, Association for Social Economics Summer School, University of Glasgow, June 19, 2012
“Are there individuals in behavioral economics,” Algorithmic Social Sciences Research Unit (ASSRU), http://www.assru.economia.unitn.it/, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, May 2012
“Stratification economics and identity economics,” Cercle d’épistémologie économique, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, March 8, 2012
“Economics, Methodology, and Identity,” Four Lectures, Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Maison des sciences économiques, http://mse.univ-paris1.fr/, March 2012
“Bounded Rationality and Bounded Individuality,” Second Group for Research into Organisational Evolution (GROE) Awayday Workshop, Privas, France, May 26-30, 2012
Individuals and Identity in Economics, Invited Lecture, University of Lyon, May 24, 2011
