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The paper ends with an alternative history of the Nobel Memorial Prize
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New book: Handbook of Teaching Philosophy to Economists, edited by Giancarlo Ianulardo, John B. Davis, Ricardo F. Crespo
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From Malthus to planetary boundaries: the genealogy of ‘carrying capacity’ as a political technology 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...

"From Malthus to planetary boundaries: the genealogy of ‘carrying capacity’ as a political technology" @vkluzik.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1753...

One Hundred Years of Game Theory | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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... and on Friday the 20th there will be a follow-up in Strasbourg, with a different talk
2 p.m., University of Strasbourg, Salle du Conseil
Venez nombreux! www.beta-economics.fr/en/evenement...

Next week, I will be giving a talk on the history of market design in Paris

Venez nombreux!

Thursday 19.02.2026 (6:00-8:00 pm)
at the Maison des Sciences Économiques, room S.17, 106-112 bd de l’Hôpital,
To join the seminar via Zoom, please register at framaforms.org/zoom-cee-167...

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The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power is out today! Peter Niesen (based @politikuhh.bsky.social), Lucia Rubinelli (@luxirubsi.bsky.social) and I consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to be able to publish the contributions of so many wonderful colleagues. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory

Lasse Thomassen, Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory - @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026
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Donald MacKenzie · AI’s Scale AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...

This is a must-read, but I can't help thinking that more emphasis needs to be placed on the resonance between the pursuit of scientific scale for AI and the underlying and explicit pursuit of business scale at all costs for platforms and investors
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It is a pleasure to work with Ivan and Bob! still intrigued about many threads we were discussing

#performativity

History and Philosophy of Market Design: Mathematical Politics of Resource Allocation 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...

Very happy and proud to share my survey on the history and philosophy of market design, I hope I'll be able to do more in the upcoming year, stay tuned, and meanwhile -- read, criticize, and use it for good cause
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We were wrong about being able to 'nudge' people to improve the world 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

www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Economics of Transition: Vol 21, No 1 Click on the title to browse this issue

Have you seen this older Sonin-Pistor debate of whether transition is over? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680351...

WP: Sources of Evidence for Evidence-based Policymaking: Journals, Articles and Scholarly Structures in the Economic Report of the President 2010-2025, by Richard V. Burkhauser & Ji Ma

New issue of Serendipities is out!
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oikonomosjournal.com/index.php/oi...

Somehow I had completely missed the launch of this new student-oriented journal in the history of economic thought.

Conversations on Rational Choice Cambridge Core - Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology - Conversations on Rational Choice

🔥 My book Conversations on Rational Choice is finally out: Conversation partners include Kenneth Arrow, Gary Becker, C. Bicchieri, D. Kahneman, P. Suppes, Christian List, Vernon Smith, Tom Schelling, L.A.Paul, C. Camerer, Martin Shubik, R. Kranton, and many others. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a ‘how-to’ guide to understanding ignorance and failure in ideational political economy This commentary essay makes the case for a different way of conceptualizing the role of ideas in political economy by arguing for the need to endogenize the limits of ideas—recognizing the key role...

Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a ‘how-to’ guide to understanding ignorance and failure in ideational political economy, by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social

Financial models as artefacts: performativity, representation, and the many lives of the Black–Scholes–Merton model The notion that financial models are ‘performative’ has proven a decisive influence on the critical finance literature’s understanding of the relationship between models and market infrastructures....

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Markowitz's 1987 book with an inscription for Arrow www.raptisrarebooks.com/product/mean...

Surrealists, I guess

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What to read in 2026: FT recommends Moral Economics (plus blurbs by Milgrom, Wilson and Goldin:)

Anticipation
#econsky #philosophy
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/01/what...

Great special issue co-edited by two superb thinkers, amazing stuff there