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Ivan Moscati

@ivan-moscati.bsky.social
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Prof at Insubria University, Varese, & research associate at Bocconi University, Milan │ History and methodology of utility and decision theory │ Behavioral and experimental economics │ Web: ivanmoscati.weebly.com

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Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay @mdtremblay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In response to the complacency of some in the face of the risks that AI poses to our shared culture of writing and counting, I wrote a short piece revisiting Adam Smith's warning about the consequences of the division of labour desmarais-tremblay.com/2026/09/25/a...
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In Defence of the Culture of Writing
OpenAI’s announcement landed like a bombshell in the mathematics community. On 8 September, 10,000 AI agents reportedly managed, in the space of 88 hours, to solve a 90-year-old problem by pr…
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Pleased to share that our paper Sleeping Beauties in Economics: Allais, Arrow, and the 75th Anniversary of the 1952 Paris Conference on Risk coauthored with Ivan Boldyrev and Bob Sugden has been published online in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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DiECO, Insubria University @dieco.uninsubria.it · 08/06/2026
Organized by Malte Dold (@maltedold.bsky.social; @pomonacollege.bsky.social), Francesco Guala, Conrad Heilmann, Chiara Lisciandra (@chiaralis.bsky.social), Magdalena Małecka, Caterina Marchionni (@catemar.bsky.social), Ivan Moscati (@ivan-moscati.bsky.social ), Raffaello Seri (@rseri.me).
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DiECO, Insubria University @dieco.uninsubria.it · 08/06/2026
The 4th Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics starts today 📍 Villa del Grumello 📅 8–12 June 2026 🔗 phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
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Home - 4th Lake Como INEM Summer School in Philosophy of Economics
Call for Applications is now open The 4th Lake Como INEM Summer School in Philosophy of Economics will take place atVilla del Grumello, Como, ItalyJune 7–12, 2026   About the course Organizing committ...
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Framing Allais: Is the Paradox Robust to the Pictorial Framing of Probabilities? coauthored with @luca-congiu.bsky.social is now available open access in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics: doi.org/10.1016/j.so... We hope you find it interesting and feel free to share it!
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
1/3: Pleased to share that another paper coauthored with Luca @luca-congiu.bsky.social has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics: Framing Allais: Is the Paradox Robust to the Pictorial Framing of Probabilities? WP at ssrn.com/abstract=578...
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Very glad to be visiting @dipecounive.bsky.social again from 13 to 30 April, and many thanks to Antonio Paradiso and my colleagues there for the invitation! This time I’ll also join Antonio in teaching a class in his History of Economic Thought course at PISE: www.unive.it/web/en/11777...
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Catherine Herfeld @cherfeld.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🎉 Yesterday was the official publication date of my book Conversations on Rational Choice, CUP. So, it really exists and you can order your copy (pic by @maltedold.bsky.social because I still dont own one).
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Deadline approaching!
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Glad to share a new paper with Ivan Boldyrev and Bob Sugden, written for the 75th anniversary of the famous 1952 Paris conference on risk. We reconstruct the rich discussions at the meeting and address the “sleeping beauty puzzle” linked to ideas presented there by Allais and Arrow. bit.ly/4rkZqNn
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Malte Dold @maltedold.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🎓 Call for applications – 4th Lake Como INEM Summer School in Philosophy of Economics, Villa del Grumello (Como), 7–12 June 2026. Open to PhD students, young scholars & advanced MA students. Deadline 31 Jan 2026. More information: phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Call for Applications — DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2026 Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics Como, Italy, 8–12 June 2026 Sponsored by INEM, U. of Insubria, and U. of Milan Full information at: phileco4.lakecomoschool.org phileco4.lakecomoschool.org/application/
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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
HISRECO-2025 starts tomorrow at the department of Economics and Business Economics, Nijmegen School of Management at Radboud University Thrilled to welcome many wonderful colleagues to Nijmegen! (will try to post sth here with h/t #HISRECO2025) hisreco.wordpress.com/next-confere...
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17th HISRECO Conference Program
Day 1 – Thursday, 23.10.2025 Ulbo de Sitter Room | 9:30 – 16:50 9:30–9:40 Opening remarks (HISRECO team) 9:40–10:30 Murat Bakeev (Leibniz University Hannover) How Artificially Intelligent Agents En…
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Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay @mdtremblay.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
You might have missed great book reviews in the latest issues of EJHET. In 32(4), Tribe, Le Chapelain, Marcuzzo, @ivan-moscati.bsky.social @massaf.bsky.social reviewed books by Drakopoulos & Katselidis, Mosca, Garegnani, Zappia, and @vhalsmayer.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...
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The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Volume 32, Issue 4 of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Very glad that Caterina Marchionni (Milan U., @catemar.bsky.social) has joined Francesco Guala (Milan U.), Raffaello Seri (Insubria U., @rseri.me), and me as a local organizer of the Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics. Welcome aboard, Caterina!
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Save the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026. Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics. Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy. Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan. More information forthcoming. @catemar.bsky.social @rseri.me
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Well deserved, Conrad!
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Delighted to share that my paper “Psychological narratives in decision theory: what they are and what they are good for” has been published in the Journal of Economic Methodology: doi.org/10.1080/1350... You can download up to 50 free copies here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/S2UAR...
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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
HISRECO program is now available online! hisreco.wordpress.com/next-confere...
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17th HISRECO Conference Program
Day 1 – Thursday, 23.10.2025 Ulbo de Sitter Room | 9:30 – 16:50 9:30–9:40 Opening remarks (HISRECO team) 9:40–10:30 Murat Bakeev (Leibniz University Hannover) How Artificially Intelligent Agents En…
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DiECO, Insubria University @dieco.uninsubria.it · 22/07/2025
📌 Scholarship Code: CU41. CU Beta.06 ⏰ Deadline: 22/08 – 1PM 📧 Contact: elena.maggi@uninsubria.it 📑 Make sure to include the scholarship code in your application! A great opportunity to research at the intersection of mobility & climate.
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DiECO, Insubria University @dieco.uninsubria.it · 22/07/2025
📢 Call for Applications – PhD Programme in Sustainable Development & Climate Change. 🎓 Focus: Climate Change & Transportation: a critical and complex interrelationship 🗓️ Start: Nov. 25 🌍 Language: English 🌐 Open to international candidates!
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Nicola Giocoli @ngiocoli.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
With the customary couple of months of delay (🙄), issue 1-2025 of HEI - History of Economic Ideas has been published. TOC is in the image below. hei.scholasticahq.com www.libraweb.net/riviste.php?chiave=61 @shoet.bsky.social
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Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
A new issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology is available now www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjec20/3...
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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The list of talks at this year's THETS conference is available, looks awesome! And I hope that other Warwick people who are interested in the topic -- like @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social , @yuvalmillo.bsky.social , and Matthew Watson -- will be there as well thets.org.uk/2025-annual-...
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2025 Annual Conference
The 55th Annual Meeting of The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS) will be held at the University of Warwick in Coventry on 3-5 September 2025. The conference, jointly hosted by the School …
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Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Article: Scarf, Shapley, and Shubik's Applications of the “Core” to General Equilibrium, by Jonathan F. Cogliano doi.org/10.1215/0018...
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judithfavereau.bsky.social @judithfavereau.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Our book with @ustagan10.bsky.social is now published and available on open access 🥳 www.routledge.com/Field-Experi...
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Field Experiments in Economics: History and Methodology
This book adopts an integrated history and philosophy of science approach to consider the historical origins and methodological pitfalls of field experiments in economics. It explains key concepts suc...
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DiECO, Insubria University @dieco.uninsubria.it · 18/06/2025
📢 Call for Applications 📢 41st Cycle of the PhD in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions. 5 scholarships available for the academic year 2025-2026. Deadline: 12/07/2025 www.uninsubria.eu/work-and-stu...
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Call for admission to doctoral courses XLI cycle A.Y. 2025/2026
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DiECO, Insubria University @dieco.uninsubria.it · 05/06/2025
Organised by Department of Economic and Social Sciences with our Department. Org. com. : Samantha Coccia (U. Politecnica delle Marche), Federico Giri (U. Politecnica delle Marche), Mauro Gallegati (U. Politecnica delle Marche), Alberto Russo (U. Politecnica delle Marche), Eugenio Caverzasi.
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DiECO, Insubria University @dieco.uninsubria.it · 05/06/2025
🚨 Call for Applications – 4th HANDS-ON AB-SFC Summer School on Agen- Based Stock-Flow Consistent Macroeconomic Modelling Ancona, Sept 3–5, 2025. Deadline: July 10, 2025 Info & application: lnkd.in/dHu3cDHW
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DiECO, Insubria University @dieco.uninsubria.it · 30/04/2025
Michele Bernasconi (@dipecounive.bsky.social) in London presenting “Equality of Opportunity with Quadratic Social Welfare Functions” w/ Raffaello Seri (@rseri.me) in a seminar of the group Perceptions of Inequality, 30/04, 12:30-13.45. www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
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Perceptions of Inequality
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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science
Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science explores the main themes, problems and challenges currently at the top of the discipline's methodolog…
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DiECO, Insubria University @dieco.uninsubria.it · 15/04/2025
3rd Edition Bioeconomy School - Science, Economics, Business and Society organized by our colleagues Raffaello Seri (@rseri.me) and Andrea Vezzulli with Loredano Pollegioni, Daniela Ubiali (U. di Pavia)
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SHoET @shoet.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Notification of acceptance: June 30th, 2025 Submission of the final paper by August 18th, 2025 Registration and fee payment should be made by July 21th, 2025.
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SHoET @shoet.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Venue: The Summer school will be held at the Department of Literature, Philosophy and Art History, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Columbia 1. The Campus X is within walking distance to the venue. A shuttle service will be available.
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SHoET @shoet.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
CfP 27th ESHET Summer School in History of Economic Thought, Economic Philosophy and Economic History “Capitalism, Democracy and Justice”, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 1-5 September 2025.
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I’ve just completed a revision of a paper titled “Psychological narratives in decision theory: what they are and what they are good for.” I believe it makes a contribution to the recent literature on the epistemic role of narratives in science, particularly in economics. ssrn.com/abstract=476...
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SHoET @shoet.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The March 2025 issue of JHET is out. It opens with the 2024 HES Presidential Address by Maria Pia Paganelli, followed by 5 articles covering a wide range of topics, one letter to the editor on Carl Menger’s Lectures to Crown Prince Rudolf and six book reviews: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest issue | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core
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Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay @mdtremblay.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
New issue of EJHET with book reviews on the history of 20th-c econ tinyurl.com/2pvke4dh @ngiocoli.bsky.social reviews @ivan-moscati.bsky.social on expected util. Rubin reviews Arnon, @henk-jandekker.bsky.social reviews Doganova on discount rate. @dkuehn.bsky.social reviews Cooper on public finance
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The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Volume 32, Issue 2 of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
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DiECO, Insubria University @dieco.uninsubria.it · 20/03/2025
A Research Fellowship is available on the topic "Technological Spillovers from the Space Industry to Other Industrial Sectors" 🔗 Further details and application: uninsubria.it/bandi-e-conc... Deadline: 07/04 at 23:59.
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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📢 Call for Abstracts! Join the student conference "Science and Philosophy - Shared History, Diverging Paths?" at Leibniz University Hannover, 25-26 July 2025! BA and MA students are welcome to submit abstracts. International participants can apply for financial support. Details: sciphihan.de
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Very glad to visit @dipecounive.bsky.social from 17/3 to 11/4 & many thanks to my colleagues there for the invitation! This time, I’ll be leading a reading group with Ph.D. students in Economics on some classics in decision theory, including Simon 1955, Ellsberg 1961, and Kahneman & Tversky 1979.
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Congratulations to Luca and his coauthors on this insightful review of a specific branch of the nudge literature!
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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
F.P. Ramsey’s grave finally has a refurbished headstone! Thank you British Wittgenstein Society for doing all the work and for allowing me to contribute in a more mundane way.
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Catherine Herfeld @cherfeld.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A new poem by Philip Kitcher in which he puts (again) in words where we have arrived at - in a world after morality - but also for what we should stand up: newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
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THE WORLD AFTER MORALITY
The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.
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Catherine Herfeld @cherfeld.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🔥JOB: Come and work with us! The @ERC_Research MODEL TRANSFER team is expanding again: we look for a 2y postdoc with interest and skills in Digital Humanities, Digital/Computational philosophy of science; deadline: Apr 10. Contact me with any questions and share www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/7...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities or Digital/Computational Philosophy of Science – Leibniz University Hannover
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Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A review of Ivan Moscati's book (The history and methodology of expected utility), by Nicola Giocoli buff.ly/42Sg8e8
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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Matteo Vagelli @mvagelli.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
📩 Submissions for ENPOSS 2025 (Venice, 10-12 Sept) are now open! Submit your abstract by March 15 at the following link: easychair.org/conferences/... Help spread the word—share this post widely!
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Ivan Moscati @ivan-moscati.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I’m very glad that Nicola (@ngiocoli.bsky.social) generally liked my book on the The History and Methodology of Expected Utility (Cambridge UP) and I agree with him that Savage’s motivations should have been clarified better. Read Nicola's review in the EJHET: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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N. Emrah Aydınonat @aydinonat.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Comment by Jaakko Kuorikoski & Caterina Marchionni (@catemar.bsky.social): "Economic models and their flexible interpretations: a philosophy of science perspective" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Economic models and their flexible interpretations: a philosophy of science perspective
We mobilise contemporary philosophy of science to further clarify observations on economic modelling made by Gilboa et al. (2023). We adopt a normative stance towards these modelling practices to i...
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