This book examines how economic knowledge shapes policy and society, challenging readers to consider not whether economics influences the real world, but how—through which models, experts, and institu...

Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.

Today’s global economy is undergoing profound structural transformations. These changes are complex, adaptive, and path-dependent—precisely the kind of dynamics that a complexity-science approach to e...

The first English translation of Foucault’s previously lost master’s thesis, itself an original contribution to the study of Hegel’s philosophy.On June 11, 1949, a twenty-three-year-old Michel Foucaul...

There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026…

This volume explores the impact of gender disparities in economics and investigates issues that arise when women are absent from the conversation.

Conference, Utrecht University 11-12 December 2026

David Ricardo initially believed machinery would help workers but revised his opinion, likely based on the impact of automation in the textile industry. Despite cotton textiles becoming one of the lar...

Published in Journal of Economic Methodology (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Economics and fiction often pursue parallel objectives. Economists analyze human decisions and interactions in markets and other institutions. Fiction writers also provide keen insights into individua...

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

The modes of performativity: A meta-theoretical review - Volume 11 Issue 3

Abstract. This book provides an introduction to arguments for and against socialism. The approach is logical and analytic: arguments are broken down into n

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics has been awarded annually since 1969. Who wins the prize is a topic of much interest and tracks the whole course of the academic discipline over the last 57 years

How much is too much? The concept ‘carrying capacity’, believed to be first employed in the context of shipping in the nineteenth century, became a key element of Neo-Malthusianism of the 1960s and...

Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory

AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...

The standard economic problem of optimally allocating scarce resources has, over recent decades, evolved into a set of practical and consequential policy interventions on the part of economists. Key f...

We thought we could address big social problems by steering individual behaviour. But "nudging" people doesn't work, say behavioural scientists Nick Chater and George Loewenstein