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Paul Lewis

@paullewis.bsky.social
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History of economic thought; social ontology; philosophy and methodology of economics; political economy of vocational education and training. Professor of Political Economy at King’s College London.

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School of Politics and Economics @kcl-spe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The PPE Society and the Department of Political Economy at King's are hosting the first annual PPE conference this July in London 💭 Interested in submitting a proposal? The deadline is March 1, so don't forget to apply 📝 For more, see 🔽 ppesociety.org/ppe-society-...
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PPE Society: London 2025 - The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society
We are pleased to share that, in addition to the PPE Society’s Annual Meetings held each year in New Orleans, the international PPE Society will…
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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We'll be hosting the first UK PPE conference in July - please do submit your abstracts and spread the news!
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A seminal work on ontology and economics: Tony Lawson’s Economics and Reality. www.routledge.com/Economics-an...
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
In Public Affairs Quarterly 38.3, @johnmeadowcroft.bsky.social argues that Robert Nozick's "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" has been misread as a defense capitalism's inequalities. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/u…
Title page of essay in open copy of Public Affairs Quarterly 38.3
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Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The Talent Commission was important in highlighting technicians in our universities. The impact of their work still unfolding itss.org.uk/research-rep...
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Research report highlights transformational changes for UK technical workforce - UK ITSS
A new report TALENT Programme: Interventions and Impact has been published to mark the conclusion of the TALENT programme.
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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Thanks to the Royal Economic Society for publishing my overview of Elinor Ostrom's contribution to commons, climate economics and policy, "What works in practice can work in theory."
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Reading: Elinor Ostrom 
What works in practice can work in theory
The Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom study how best to govern common resources, including the global climate 
The Author 
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Grand Valley State University Monochrome picture of Elinor Ostrom in 1968, writing outside her cabin on Manitoulin Island, Canada.
She is sitting, thoughtfully writing, holding sunglasses in her other hand. She is wearing a bandana on her head and a sleeveless shirt. There are trees in the background.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Such a lovely piece about valuing a really good local restaurant by @msrachelcooke.bsky.social (in last week’s Observer). She writes warmly about Trullo. I feel the same about the wonderful Les 2Garcons in Crouch End.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a fine, insightful book on those political aspects of the Ostroms’ work that receive less attention than they deserve. Highly recommended.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Intriguing paper by the great Elinor Ostrom. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fascinating, thought-provoking article on the need for a new moral political economy by Margaret Levi. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Good book; fine cover.
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Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Getting a bit realistic now. The Good Father out on 3 July…
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Fascinating paper by James Buchanan, engaging at a fundamental level with Kenneth Arrow’s work on social choice theory. www.jstor.org/stable/1825570
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Social Choice, Democracy, and Free Markets on JSTOR
James M. Buchanan, Social Choice, Democracy, and Free Markets, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Apr., 1954), pp. 114-123
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Current reading.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A comprehensive analysis of Amartya Sen’s fascinating notion of ’commitment’.
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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
A quick and insightful overview of Elinor Ostrom's life and ideas: "Tackling the sustainability challenge collectively Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for showing that ordinary people, working together, can manage natural resources sustainably. Her work is as relevant as ever."
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Elinor Ostrom: Rethinking sustainable governance today
Discover how Elinor Ostrom's ideas on sustainable governance protect resources - and why her Nobel-winning principles are more vital now than ever.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Interested in how Elinor and Vincent Ostrom drew on ideas from cybernetics? Then check out this paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics | Journal of Institutional Economics | Cambridge Core
The Ostroms on self-governance: the importance of cybernetics - Volume 20
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Another fine episode of Great Lives, this time on James Baldwin. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Great Lives - Ruth Rogers on James Baldwin - BBC Sounds
Ruth Rogers chooses the life of writer James Baldwin.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This paper develops a Hayekian/Ostromian perspective on innovation systems theory. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The innovation systems approach: an Austrian and Ostromian perspective - The Review of Austrian Economics
The innovation systems (IS) approach—developed by Richard Nelson, Christopher Freeman and Bengt-Ake Lundvall, amongst others—has become perhaps the dominant approach in the academic literature for the...
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Terrific episode of Great Lives on the extraordinary Frank Ramsey. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Great Lives - David Spiegelhalter on Frank Ramsey - BBC Sounds
Statistician David Spiegelhalter champions the short, brilliant life of Frank Ramsey.
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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I am always delightfully surprised to see a post from a reader of my book! Thanks Paul and all the readers - past, present, and future. I hope it inspires conversation about how Ostrom's ideas can be applied to today's challenges.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Some reading for today.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A beautifully written, finely observed novella. A delight to read.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Interesting-looking article. academic.oup.com/cpe/advance-...
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Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity
Mary Wollstonecraft was first and foremost a critic. Almost all of what she wrote took the form of critiques. She took exception to institutions, such as t
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Classic article by John Maynard Keynes: ’The General Theory of Employment.’ academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
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The General Theory of Employment
Summary. I. Comments on the four discussions in the previous issue of points in the General Theory, 209. — II. Certain definite points on which the writer
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Make your day better by reading this superb paper by Ryan Hanley. It’s on a fascinating topic, is based on a careful and convincing argument, and is full of insight. Highly recommended. ’PRACTICING PPE: THE CASE OF ADAM SMITH’ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
New purchase.
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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"The purpose of writing isn’t just to demonstrate knowledge in the most expedient way. Writing is to explore knowledge, to connect and synthesise ideas, to create new knowledge, and to share." An interesting analysis of pitfalls of drafting using genAI by @leonfurze.com leonfurze.com/2024/02/21/t...
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The Myth of the AI First Draft
I write daily, often for hours at a time. I’m an author of fiction and nonfiction, and even when I’m not writing something for publication I fill notebooks with ideas and frequently ill…
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Barbara Piotrowska @bpiotrowska.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Citizens hear about democratic backsliding on the news, but they meet it in interactions with street-level bureaucrats. This SI, co-edited with @gabilotta.bsky.social and Nadine Raaphorst, explores how populism and democratic erosion shape the work of the frontline public sector🧵
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Niclas Berggren @nonicoc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Walter Lippmann: an institutionalist for our times? joie-blog.net/walter-lippm...
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Walter Lippmann: an institutionalist for our times? - JoIE Blog
Summary of JOIE article (15 November 2024) by Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap and Paul Lewis, Department of Political Economy, King’s College, London. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Walte...
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Hugh Pemberton @hugh-pemberton.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This is interesting: Matt Flinders on The New Politics of Public Inquiries, and on the danger that the public's greatly inflated expectations risks undermining public confidence in British politics rather than rebuilding it. In @politicalquarterly.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The New Politics of Public Inquiries
This article argues that it is possible to identify a ‘new’ politics of public inquiries. A sizable seam of scholarship and parliamentary discussion has for at least a century bemoaned the limited in...
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The Economist on cronyism, rent-seeking, and the work of Anne O. Krueger. Well worth reading. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
During Covid lockdown, if you had family round on Christmas Day the police could force their way into your home and make them return to their own homes. Does anybody know if this service is still available and, if so, do you have to book it?
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Recently published paper on the constitutional political economy of James Buchanan and Vincent Ostrom, co-authored with @johnmeadowcroft.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Thought-provoking essay on behavioural normative economics: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The view from Manywhere : normative economics with context-dependent preferences
PDF | We propose a methodology for normative evaluation when preferences are context-dependent. We offer a precise definition of context-dependence and... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
’True curiosity is serious, not idle, and proper knowledge is almost always hard won. The real spirit of the autodidact is one of awed humility: other people know much more than me; catching up is going to be hard work.’ Fine article on self-education by James Marriott.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Coming up this morning: the final lecture of this term's Studying Economics module, designed to introduce students to complexity economics. The main focus will be on Thomas Schelling's fascinating model of segregation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Really good episode of "In Our Time" on Friedrich Hayek - a much more interesting thinker than many of his disciples. With Ben Jackson, Melissa Lane and Bruce Caldwell. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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In Our Time - Hayek's The Road to Serfdom - BBC Sounds
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny
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Valentina Ausserladscheider @vapunkt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
‼️Our department is looking for a 4-year postdoc: ideally someone interested in economic sociology experienced with quantitive methods. We offer: manageable teaching load, great time to develop research & a wonderful city. Please consider applying & share widely! ‼️ jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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Universitätsassistent*in Postdoc
Universitätsassistent*in Postdoc
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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
2. Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics! Ironically, she was rejected from UCLA's graduate program in econ and instead got a PhD in political science. Ostrom's work and life is inspiring to many.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Interesting-looking new article: ‘Being good and doing good in behavioural policy-making’. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Recent book by recent former KCL PhD student and fine scholar Matias Petersen: www.routledge.com/Political-Ec...
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Really interesting paper by Tony Lawson on the nature/definition of the discipline of economics. www.persee.fr/doc/ecoap_00...
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Good morning from north London.
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Here’s a little piece I did on the nature and significance of Hayek’s work on theoretical psychology: lawliberty.org/classic/haye...
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Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Thought-provoking article, which seeks to reorient the normative side of behavioural economics, by my KCL colleague Shaun Hargreaves Heap. academic.oup.com/cje/article-...
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Behavioural Public Policy @bppjournal.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
1. Adam Oliver, LSE, 9th December www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/... #BehaviouralScience #PublicPolicy #Autonomy #BehSci #PoliticalScience
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Getting lost in a field: a personal history in behavioural public policy
6.30pm Mon 9 Dec | Adam Oliver | Free public event at LSE
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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 26/11/2024
Not quite as funny as "Rawls is Jesus", but here's a note from Norman Malcolm to Rawls congratulating him on "The Book" and apologizing for trying, in 1947, to dissuade him from writing a dissertation in moral philosophy. "How fortunate that you were stubborn!"
Letter on Cornell University Philosophy Dept stationery:

Dear Jack:
I am very appreciative of your sending me a copy of The Book. I recall vividly my attempt in 1947 to dissuade you from writing a dissertation in moral philosophy. How fortunate that you were stubborn!

Many congratulations to you and Mardy; and many thanks.

Yours,
Norman
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casssunstein.bsky.social @casssunstein.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
On liberalism (an early version of the first chaper of a forthcoming book on that topic). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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On Liberalism
Liberals see human beings as subjects, not objects. They reject despotism in its many forms. With Justice Robert Jackson, liberals believe that “compulsory unif
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Niclas Berggren @nonicoc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Democracy, demarchy, and international federalism isonomiaquarterly.com/volume-2-iss...
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Democracy, demarchy, and international federalism
by Ekkehard A. Köhler & Daniel NientiedtClick here for a print version of this essay (PDF), and remember that paid subscribers get print editions of IQ in the mail Friedrich Hayek’s oeuvre famo…
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