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Model trustworthiness and modeler responsibility in economic agent-based modeling practices: a meta-analytical approach
Published on 14 Apr 2026
by Massimo Rusconi Davide Secchi Raffaello Seri a InsIDE Lab, Department of Economics, University of Insubria, Varese, Italyb Paris School of Business, Paris, FranceMassimo Rusconi holds a PhD in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions from the University of Insubria, where he currently serves as Adjunct Lecturer for the course Seminar in Industrial Dynamics and Evolution in the Master’s Degree Programme in Global Entrepreneurship, Economics and Management. He is also External Affiliate at the Social Simulation Laboratory (TISSS Lab) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research focuses on the epistemology and methodology of economics and the social sciences, with particular attention to agent-based modeling and innovation dynamics. His academic background includes a double-degree Master’s in Global Entrepreneurship, Economics and Management from the University of Insubria and in International Business and Economics from the University of Hohenheim, a second-level Master’s Degree in Data Science for Economics, Business and Finance from the University of Milan, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from San Raffaele University, Milan.Davide Secchi received his PhD in Management from Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy. He is Professor of Management at Paris School of Business, Paris, France. His work is dedicated to the study of organizational behavior, with a focus on organizational cognition. In one of his latest monographs — Computational Organizational Cognition (Emerald, 2022) — he outlines how agent-based computational simulation can (and should) be used to study cognition dynamics in teams and organizations. He is currently working on a method that merges organizational ethnography with computational simulation work.Raffaello Seri received his MSc and PhD degrees in Management Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; a joint DEA in Mathematics Applied to Economics from ENSAE and Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France; and a second PhD in Mathematics from Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France. He is Professor of Econometrics at DiECO, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese, Italy. His research interests include statistics, probability theory, numerical analysis, operations research, mathematical psychology and economics. He has held visiting positions at several institutions, including Brown University, Providence, and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA; FSU Jena, Jena, Germany; University of Southern Denmark, Slagelse, Denmark; and Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France.
Blunt instrument
Published on 31 Mar 2026
by Don Ross a School of Society, Politics, and Ethics, University College Cork, Cork, Irelandb School of Economics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africac Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
Introduction
Published on 9 Mar 2026
by Kobi Finestone University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USAKobi Finestone is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. His research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy, politics and economics. In particular, his research explores the epistemic capacities of scientific models, the role of expectations and uncertainty in economic thought and the rights and obligations of business leaders, regulators and researchers in an open society.
The inexact and separate science of economics: a response to my excellent critics
Published on 29 Jan 2026
by Daniel M. Hausman Institute for Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USADaniel M. Hausman has recently retired from Rutgers University Institute for Health, having taught previously for more than 30 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most of his research addresses philosophical issues at the boundaries between economics and philosophy. The author of eight books and more than 200 articles and reviews, Hausman also co-founded the journal, Economics and Philosophy with Michael McPherson. In 2009 Hausman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A methodological appraisal of experienced utility
Published on 27 Jan 2026
by Ivan Mitrouchev Université Lumière Lyon 2, CNRS, UJM Saint-Etienne, emlyon business school, GATE, 69007 Lyon, FranceIvan Mitrouchev is a postdoctoral researcher at Université Lumière Lyon 2, affiliated with the GATE research center. His research combines philosophy, experiments, and applications to explore the topics of welfare evaluation, fairness, rationality, and public policy.
Uncovering the hidden value of unpaid work: a global history of marginalized metrics
Published on 14 Jan 2026
by Maylis Avaro Johanna Gautier-Morin Maylis Avaro is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, and is affiliated with the Center of Economic Policy and History. She was previously the Howard S. Marks Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania, and a scientific collaborator at the Department of Economic and Financial History at Université Libre de Bruxelles. She has held visiting positions at the Department of Economics at Rutgers University, the Faculty of History at Oxford University and the Bank of France. She holds a PhD in International Economics and History from the Gevena Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.Johanna Gautier-Morin is a historian of capitalism, economic knowledge, crises, and political ecology. Currently based in Vienna. She collaborates with the Open Society Hub for the Politics of the Anthropocene (OHPA) at the Central European University, where she explores the history of carbon markets, decarbonization and the petrostate. Her broader research examines the critical history of international economic indicators in collaboration with the Center for the Sociology of Organizations (CSO) at Sciences Po Paris. Previously, she was a TEFE Fellow at the Remarque Institute, New York University, and a Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, where she contributed to the ERC-funded ECOINT project on twentieth-century international economic thinking and globalization. Her research appears or is forthcoming in the Journal of Global History, Contemporary European History, Global Networks, Radical History Review, Feminist Economics, and Relations Internationales, among others. It has been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Albert Gallatin Fellowship, the European Research Council, the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche, and the Open Society Foundations. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Measuring the Invisible Economy, under contract with Cambridge University Press for the Elements series and co-editing Decarbonization and the Petrostate with Alexander Etkind at Amsterdam University Press.a Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Irelandb Department of International Relations, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
A forgotten epistocracy? Political institutions and epistemic virtues in Hayek’s market liberalism
Published on 17 Dec 2025
by Samuel Ferey Daniel Zarama Rojas Université de Lorraine, Université de Strasbourg, Nancy, FranceSamuel Ferey is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Expertise on Transitions, University of Lorraine, University of Strasbourg, CNRS, BETA, Nancy F-54000. His research focuses on Law and Economics, the history of liberalism and the epistemology of constitutional deliberation. He thanks the French Agency for Research for its financial support (ANR-21-CE41-0008, Isovote 2021-2025).Daniel Zarama Rojas is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Lorraine, University of Strasbourg, CNRS, BETA, Nancy F-54000. His research focuses on behavioral economics, the philosophy of economics and the epistemology of public policy. He studies the role of epistemic virtues and vices in economic decision-making and policy design.
Pluralism meets diversity in the philosophy of economics
Published on 11 Dec 2025
by Sheila Dow a Division of Economics, Stirling Business School, University of Stirling, Stirling, UKb University of Victoria, Victoria, Canadac Academic Council, Institute for New Economic Thinking, New York, NY, USASheila Dow is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling, Scotland, Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, Canada, a member of the Academic Council of Institute for New Economic Thinking and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her main academic focus is on the history of economic thought (focusing on Hume, Smith and Keynes) and on raising methodological awareness in the fields of macroeconomics, and money and banking. While her career has primarily been in academia, she has held positions with the Bank of England and the Government of Manitoba, and as special advisor on monetary policy to the UK Treasury Select Committee. She has held academic positions such as Chair of the International Network for Economic Method, associate editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology and co-editor of Economic Thought.
Weak-necessity causal reasoning for evaluating counterfactual arguments in law and economics
Published on 25 Nov 2025
by Lilia Qian Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA, USALilia Qian is Senior Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Dan Hausman on macroeconomic models
Published on 19 Nov 2025
by Nadia Ruiz Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, GermanyNadia Ruiz is a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project Managing Performative Sciences at the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover. Her research examines the challenges economists face in constructing models, with a particular focus on how these constraints influence policy development and individual behavior.
Pitfalls in econometrics
Published on 14 Oct 2025
by Marcel Boumans Utrecht University School of Economics, The Netherlands
Hausman’s inexact and separate science of economics
Published on 14 Oct 2025
by Margaret Schabas Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CanadaMargaret Schabas (FRSC), a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, works primarily in the History and Philosophy of Economics. Her books include A World Ruled by Number (Princeton, 1990), The Natural Origins of Economics (Chicago, 2005) and, with Carl Wennerlind, A Philosopher's Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism (Chicago, 2020).
Principles of complexity economics: concepts, methods and applications
Published on 13 Oct 2025
by Filip Lubinski Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
The Knightian entrepreneur as consensus-builder
Published on 8 Oct 2025
by Dillon Tauzin Economics, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USADillon Tauzin is a professor of economics at Chapman University, in the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy.
Diversity in introductory courses in philosophy of economics – A study of course syllabi
Published on 17 Sep 2025
by Milena Dehn Ella Needler a Department of Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USAb Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, PA, NetherlandsMilena Dehn is a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at Colorado State University. She holds a Master's in Economics from SOAS, University of London, and a Master's in Philosophy of the Social Sciences from LSE. She received her B.A. in Philosophy & Economics at the University of Bayreuth.Ella Needler is a PhD student in economics and finance at the University of Groningen. Her research aims to look at the place of fundamental uncertainty in the development of corporate finance. She holds a research master's in Economics and Philosophy from the Erasmus Institute of Philosophy and Economics and bachelor's degrees in Economics and Finance from Washington University in St. Louis. She is an active volunteer and board member of the Women in Economics Initiative.
Commitment, Kantian economics and normative uncertainty: rethinking rational choice and individual responsibility in the wake of climate change
Published on 17 Sep 2025
by Mathieu Guigourez Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, FranceMathieu Guigourez is a PhD Candidate in economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (CES). His research focuses on the philosophy of economics, exploring how ecological challenges reshape our understanding of what is economically rational and morally responsible.
Building diversity into the philosophy and methodology of economics with Stratification economics
Published on 15 Sep 2025
by Merve Burnazoglu John B. Davis a Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlandsb Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United Statesc University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsMerve Burnazoglu is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Utrecht University School of Economics. Merve works in political economy and economic methodology, mainly focusing on identity-based structural exclusion ('stratification') mechanisms in markets, policy and scientific practice. Currently, she investigates the role of technological tools in addressing or potentially reproducing these mechanisms.John B. Davis is Professor Emeritus of Economics, Marquette University, and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Amsterdam. His research areas include identity in economics, capabilities, and stratification economics. He is a former editor of the Review of Social Economy and former co-editor with Wade Hands of the Journal of Economic Methodology.
Introduction to the INEM 2023 conference special issue
Published on 3 Sep 2025
by Guilhem Lecouteux Chiara Lisciandra Johanna Thoma a Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Gredeg, Franceb Department of Philosophy, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germanyc Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, GermanyGuilhem Lecouteux is an Associate Professor of economics at Université Côte d'Azur (Nice, France). His research lies at the intersection of behavioural economics, public policy and philosophy, and investigates the role of behavioural sciences in designing and justifying public policies.Chiara Lisciandra is a Junior Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf. Her primary research interests are in general philosophy of science (models, explanations, and interdisciplinary science), social philosophy (norms, game theory), and philosophy of economics (methodology of behavioural/experimental/development economics).Johanna Thoma is the Chair of Ethics at the University of Bayreuth and current President of the International Network for Economic Method. She works on ethics, philosophy of public policy, decision theory and economic methodology.
The analogical roots of agent-based modeling in economics and social sciences: the case of innovation dynamics
Published on 30 Aug 2025
by Massimo Rusconi Davide Secchi Raffaello Seri a InsIDE Lab, Department of Economics, University of Insubria, Varese, Italyb Management and Strategy Department, Paris School of Business , Paris, Francec Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, DenmarkMassimo Rusconi holds a PhD in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions from Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy, where he is affiliated with the InsIDE Lab in the Department of Economics. He is currently visiting the Technology and Innovation, Social Simulation Lab at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany, and is a guest researcher at the Department of Innovation Economics, Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; a double MSc in International Business and Economics from Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, and in Global Entrepreneurship, Economics and Management from Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy; and a second-level master's degree (third cycle) in Data Science from Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy. His research focuses on the epistemology of economics and the social sciences, with particular attention to knowledge diffusion networks investigated through Agent-Based Modeling.Davide Secchi received his PhD in Management from Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy. He is Professor of Management at Paris School of Business, Paris, France, and, at the moment this bio is written, maintains an affiliation with University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. His work is dedicated to the study of organizational behavior, with a main interest in organizational cognition. In one of his latest monographs — Computational Organizational Cognition (Emerald, 2022) — he outlines how agent-based computational simulation can (and should) be used to study cognition dynamics in organizations. He is currently working on a method that merges organizational ethnography with computational simulation work.Raffaello Seri received his MSc and PhD degrees in Management Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; a joint DEA in Mathematics Applied to Economics from ENSAE and Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France; and a second PhD in Mathematics from Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France. He is Professor of Econometrics at DiECO, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy. His research interests include statistics, probability theory, numerical analysis, operations research, mathematical psychology and economics. He has held visiting positions at several institutions, including Brown University, Providence, USA; FSU Jena, Jena, Germany; University of Southern Denmark, Slagelse, Denmark; and Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
The roles and import of revealed preference theory
Published on 17 Aug 2025
by Mikaël Cozic Faculty of philosophy, Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Université, Lyon, FranceMikaël Cozic is a Professor in philosophy at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Université (France). He works mainly in decision theory, formal epistemology and the philosophy of economics.
Kenneth Arrow’s fundamental critique of neoclassical economics
Published on 7 Aug 2025
by Yam Maayan Yeshoron a Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israelb Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USAYam Maayan Yeshoron is a historian of economics. She completed her PhD at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University, and was a research fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. She is currently a Polonsky Academy Research Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, where she is conducting research on the concept of social institutions in post-war mathematical economics.
Psychological narratives in decision theory: what they are and what they are good for
Published on 7 Aug 2025
by Ivan Moscati a Department of Economics, University of Insubria, Varese, Italyb Baffi Carefin Center, Bocconi University, Milan, ItalyIvan Moscati is Professor of Economics at the University of Insubria, Varese, and Research Associate of the Baffi Carefin Center, Bocconi University, Milan. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of decision theory. He is the author of Measuring Utility: From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The History and Methodology of Expected Utility (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled Classic and Modern Decision Theory: A History of Ideas (1650–2010). URL: .
Behavioural Economics and the Environment: A Research Companion
Published on 7 Aug 2025
by Neni Hardiati Graduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Learning from economic models: the case of DSGE models
Published on 4 Aug 2025
by Alfonso Palacio-Vera Department of Applied Economics, School of Economics and Business, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, SpainAlfonso Palacio-Vera is Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He has been Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts and Duke University (USA). He has published some book chapters and papers in academic journals including Social Epistemology, Economics and Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Rationality and Society, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Metroeconomica, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Review of Political Economy, Eastern Economic Journal, and International Review of Applied Economics. He has published a book titled Karl Popper and Situational Analysis: Theory and Method for Contemporary Economics and Sociology which belongs to the Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology.
Gender homogeneity in philosophy and methodology of economics: evidence from publication patterns
Published on 29 Jul 2025
by Alexandre Truc François Claveau Catherine Herfeld Vincent Larivière a Department of Economics, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, Franceb Département de philosophie et d'éthique appliquée, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canadac Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germanyd École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, Montréal, CanadaAlexandre Truc is a CNRS researcher at Université Côte d'Azur - GREDEG in Nice, France.François Claveau is Canada Research Chair in Applied Epistemology and professor in the Department of Philosophy and Applied Ethics at Université de Sherbrooke.Catherine Herfeld is a professor of philosophy and history of economics at the Institute of Philosophy at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.Vincent Larivière holds de UNESCO Chair on Open Science at the Université de Montréal, where he is professor of information science.
Investigating conspiracy beliefs: methodological biases and experimental challenges
Published on 29 Jul 2025
by Lorenzo Gagliardi Massimo Rusconi a Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padua, Padova, Italyb Department of Economics, University of INsubria, Varese, ItalyDr. Lorenzo Gagliardi holds a PhD in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions from the University of Insubria (Italy), and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Padua, in the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization. He works at the Judgment and Decision-Making Lab (JDM Lab) at the University of Padua. His research focuses on judgment and decision-making, with a particular emphasis on anomalistic beliefs, including conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. Dr. Gagliardi holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Business Administration (B.A., University of Calabria) and a master's degree in Trade & Consumer Marketing (M.Sc., University of Parma), with a focus on medical decision-making and consumer behavior. His work investigates cognitive biases and their role in belief systems that challenge conventional understanding of the world. He is also a member of the Managing Committee of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP), serving in the role of Digital Media Specialist. His email address is lorenzo.gagliardi@unipd.itDr. Massimo Rusconi holds a PhD in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions from the University of Insubria (Italy), and is affiliated with the InsIDE Lab in the Department of Economics at the same university. Moreover, he is currently visiting the Technology and Innovation, Social Simulation Lab at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany), and is a guest researcher at the Department of Innovation Economics at the University of Hohenheim (Germany). He holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy (B.A., University of San Raffaele), a double master's degree in International Business and Economics (M.Sc., University of Hohenheim) and in Global Entrepreneurship, Economics and Management (M.Sc., University of Insubria), with a focus on Innovation Economics. He also holds a second-level master's degree (third cycle) in Data Science (University of Milan). His research focuses on the epistemology of economics and the social sciences, and he investigates knowledge diffusion networks by means of Agent-Based Modeling. His email address is m.rusconi8@studenti.uninsubria.it
What makes economics a separate science?
Published on 28 Jul 2025
by Alex Rosenberg Department of Philosophy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USAAlex Rosenberg is the R.Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.
Minimal models, feminist epistemology, and diversity
Published on 24 Jul 2025
by Patricia Marino Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Modelling conditionally respected social norms: a critique from the intentional stance
Published on 21 Jul 2025
by Don Ross Cuizhu Wang a School of Society, Politics, and Ethics, University College Cork, Cork, Irelandb School of Economics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africac Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USAd Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Comparative economics for model choice
Published on 21 Jul 2025
by Armin W. Schulz Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USAArmin W. Schulz is an interdisciplinary researcher investigating what we can learn from linking evolutionary biology and the cognitive and social sciences. His particular focus is on the evolutionary pressures on social decision-making, both with a view towards cognitive psychology and economics.