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Economics/Public Choice

An Ecologically Rational Analysis of Nudge Theory

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Abigail Devereaux / 0 Comment

Here’s a short essay on how nudge theory would be interpreted in an ecologically rational frame. This essay is a bit of a teaser for a paper I’m wor...

Economics

My problem with Kirznerian surprise

Posted on July 24, 2016 by Abigail Devereaux / 0 Comment

The problem I see with Kirznerian “surprise,” as Kirzner elaborates on in his “Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process,&#...

Book Review/Public Choice/Publications

Published in Public Choice online: My book review of Colander and Kupers “Complexity and the Art of Public Policy”

Posted on June 18, 2016 by Abigail Devereaux / 0 Comment

My book review of Colander and Kupers “Complexity and the Art of Public Policy” has been published online in the journal Public Choice. http://link....

Book Review/Complexity Economics

Book Review: Complexity and the Art of Public Policy

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Abigail Devereaux / 0 Comment

In Complexity and the Art of Public Policy, David Colander and Roland Kupers introduce the “complexity frame” of policy-making, and argue for bottom-up policy-m...

Economics/Macroeconomics/Methodology

A Conless Macroeconomics?

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Abigail Devereaux / 0 Comment

I’m reading Vela Velupillai’s “Variations on the Theme of Conning in Mathematical Economics” (2007), which is one of his many contributi...

Complexity Economics/Economics/Methodology

Undecidability, Incompleteness and Irreducibility in Mathematical Economics

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Abigail Devereaux / 1 Comment

This essay is written in the style of Morgenstern’s “Thirteen critical points in contemporary economic theory” (1972) Methodological thinkers ...

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