Research Areas
economic methodology and philosophy of economics, history of economics (especially recent economics,
Keynes, Sraffa), heterodox economics, stratification economics, social economics, identity economics, capabilities, economics and ethics, health economics
I've worked on identity for a number of years, and have my third book on the identity of economic agents forthcoming in 2024. One dimension of this I have emphasized concerns how agents are reflexive beings. For an application of this idea to financial markets see:
“Belief reversals as phase transitions and economic fragility: A complexity theory of financial cycles with
reflexive agents,” Review of Evolutionary Political Economy 1:1 (2020): 67-84.
In my forthcoming 2024 book I advance an identity conception of individual agents as reflexive beings who continually adjust their behavior in an uncertain world - using a process rather than state description of individuals, as urged by Herbert Simon. Chapter 4 of the book lays out in some detail the account of adjustment I employ, including discussing how individuals are made up of capabilities and can reason counterfactually about the world.
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 reflexivity 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).
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