John B. Davis
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economic methodology and philosophy of economics, identity of individual economic agents, social identity, reflexivity in economics, ethics and economics, health economics, social economics, the capability approach, social capital, history of recent economics.

I received a grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (http://ineteconomics.org/) to work on reflexivity and reflexive agents in economics.  That work is on-going.  

​The painting below, 
Las Meninas by Velazquez, is a famous expression of reflexivity, the idea of something reflecting back on or mirroring itself.  For an excellent discussion of how the artist expressed reflexivity in the painting, see: 

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/monarchy-enlightenment/baroque-art1/spain/v/vel-zquez-las-meninas-c-1656

For an application of the idea to economic methodololgy, see Davis, J. and M. Klaes (2003) “Reflexivity: Curse or Cure?”  Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol. 10, no. 3: pp. 329-352 (posted below).

Also see my recent posts on reflexivity on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/



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