New issue of EJPE now available: Special issue on the philosophy and economics of pandemics

The latest issue of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE) is now available online at http://ejpe.org/. It includes a special issue on the philosophy and economics of pandemics, an interview with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, the launch of our new section Into the Archives devoted to archival texts, and more. Please see below for an overview—with links—of the issue.

 

EJPE is a peer-reviewed bi-annual academic journal supported by the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics at the Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam. EJPE publishes research on the methodology, history, ethics, and interdisciplinary relations of economics, and welcomes contributions from all scholars with an interest in any of its research domains. EJPE is an Open Access Journal: all the content is permanently available online without subscription or payment.

 

 

**OVERVIEW OF EJPE ISSUE 1, VOLUME 14, 2021**

 

 

ARTICLE

 

I Choose for Myself, Therefore I Am: The Contours of Existentialist Behavioral Economics by Malte Dold and Alexa Stanton

 

 

SPECIAL ISSUE on The Philosophy and Economics of Pandemics

 

Introduction: The Philosophy and Economics of Pandemics

 

Neighbors Help in a Pandemic by Nora Mills Boyd and Matthew Davis

 

Mandated Shutdowns, the Ratchet Effect, and The Barstool Fund by Jeffrey Carroll

 

Pandemic Windfalls and Obligations of Justice by Brian Berkey

 

Governing Life and the Economy: Exploring the Role of Trust in the Covid-19 Pandemic by Joelle M. Abi-Rached and Ishac Diwan

 

How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918–1920 by Mauro Boianovsky and Guido Erreygers

 

Three Ways in Which Pandemic Models May Perform a Pandemic by Philippe van Basshuysen, Lucie White, Donal Khosrowi, and Mathias Frisch

 

Uncertain Policy Decisions During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Malvina Ongaro

 

How to Handle Trade-Offs in Pandemics by Krister Bykvist

 

Collective Responses to Covid-19 and Climate Change by Andrea S. Asker and H. Orri Stefánsson

 

Vaccine Refusal Is Not Free Riding by Ethan Bradley and Mark Navin

 

 

INTERVIEW

 

Past and Future of Humanomics: A Conversation with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Paolo Silvestri

 

 

INTO THE ARCHIVES

 

Mathematical Psychology by Jan Tinbergen

Translated and annotated by Conrad Heilmann, Stefan Wintein, Ruth Hinz, and Erwin Dekker

 

No Envy: Jan Tinbergen on Fairness by Conrad Heilmann and Stefan Wintein

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Massimiliano Vatiero’s The Theory of Transaction in Institutional Economics: A History by Douglas W. Allen

 

Hélène Landemore’s Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century by Erica Yu

 

 

PHD THESIS SUMMARY

 

Galbraith’s Integral Economics (1933–1983) by Alexandre Chirat