The Journal of Philosophical Economics

2007 - 2025

Current editor(s): Valentin Cojanu

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Volume 13, issue 2, 2020

Economic essays (part two): toward a realistic concept of choice pp. 1-57

Frederic B. Jennings

The rationality principle as a universal grammar of economic explanations pp. 58-80

Cheng Li

Nordhaus on philosophy in climate change economics pp. 81-90

Laurent Jodoin

Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari: performative constitution of unpayable debt in finance capitalism pp. 91-115

Christina Banalopoulou

Marx’s Law of value and the ontology of labour: a Castoriadian critical point of view pp. 116-136

Richard Sobel

Towards a theory of ignorance pp. 137-161

Adam Fforde

Comparing economic theories or: pluralism in economics and the need for a comparative approach to scientific research programmes pp. 162-184

Arne Heise

Rejoinder on animal spirits in Descartes and Keynes: a response to Kurt Smith pp. 185-201

Sonya Marie Scott

Why is economics not part of a system of scientific ethics? A review essay on Wilfred Dolfsma and Ioana Negru’s The Ethical Formation of Economists pp. 202-214

Altuğ Yalçıntaş

Review of Craig Smith, Adam Smith, Cambridge / Medford MA, Polity Press, 1st Edition, 2020, 210 pp., pb, ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1823-4 pp. 215-219

Sergiu Bălan

Review of Dumas, Lloyd J., Building the Good Society. The Power and Limits of Markets, Democracy and Freedom in an Increasingly Polarized World, Emerald Publishing, 2020, xiv+228 pp., hb, ISBN 978-1-83867-632-2 pp. 220-225

George Şerban-Oprescu

Review of Mark Thornton, The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century, Auburn, Alabama, Mises Institute, 2018, 275 pp., pb, ISBN 978-1-61016-684-3 pp. 226-230

Alexandru Patruti

Review of Andrea Komlosy, Work. The Last 1000 Years, translated by Jakob K. Watson with Loren Balhorn, London, Verso, 2018, 265 pp., hb, ISBN 978-1-78663-410-8 pp. 231-235

Valentin Cojanu

Volume 13, issue 1, 2019

The resilience of modern neoclassical economics – a case study in the light of Ludwik Fleck’s ‘harmony of deception’ pp. 1-18

Arne Heise

Reconsidering economics in relation to sustainable development and democracy pp. 19-38

Peter Söderbaum

The unrealistic realist philosophy. The ontology of econometrics revisited pp. 39-64

Mariusz Maziarz

Economic essays (part one): toward a realistic concept of choice pp. 65-105

Frederic B. Jennings

A Review of Piero Ferri, Minsky’s Moment. An Insider’s View on the Economics of Hyman Minsky, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, 252 pp., ISBN 978-1-78897-372-4 pp. 106-111

Andreas Stamate-Stefan

IN MEMORIAM: Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019) pp. 112-112

Richard E. Lee

Volume 12, issue 2, 2019

Economic experiments versus physical science experiments: an ontology-based approach pp. 1-30

María Caamaño-Alegre and José Caamaño-Alegre

Friedman’s instrumentalism in F53. A Weberian reading pp. 31-53

Peter Galbács

On Amartya Sen’s concept of sympathy pp. 54-74

Mark Peacock

The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations. Ethics, jurisprudence and political economy throughout the intellectual history of Adam Smith pp. 75-96

Pilar Piqué

Morality and value neutrality in economics: a dualist view pp. 97-118

Cheng Li

Review of Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis, edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz D. Kurz, Edward Elgar Publishing, Northhampton, MA, 2018, 3 volumes, 1919 pp, Paperback, ISBN 978-1-78536-131-9 pp. 119-124

Gabriel Mursa and Andreea Iacobuță

Review of Colin White, A History of the Global Economy. The Inevitable Accident, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, hb, ix+495 pages, ISBN 978-1-78897-197-3 pp. 125-131

George Șerban-Oprescu

Review of Venkat Venkatasubramanian, How Much Inequality is Fair? Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society, New York, Columbia University Press, 2017, xxi+279 pp., hb, ISBN 978-0-231-18072-6 pp. 132-136

Valentin Cojanu

Volume 12, issue 1, 2018

Financial bubbles and their magic: asset price as a heroic journey in the financial markets pp. 1-35

Alexandru (alec) Bălăşescu and Apurv Jain

Negative and positive liberty and the freedom to choose in Isaiah Berlin and Jean-Jacques Rousseau pp. 36-64

Stefan Collignon

Classical economics must not become history pp. 65-88

Ion Pohoaţă, Delia-Elena Diaconașu and Vladimir-Mihai Crupenschi

Ecce Homo-Economicus? The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide syndrome of the economic man in the context of natural resources scarcity and environmental externalities pp. 89-111

Panos Kalimeris

Critical comments on the philosophical context of Ludwig von Mises’s ‘Human action’ pp. 112-125

Alexandru A. Popovici

Review of Tavasci, Daniela and Luigi Ventimiglia (eds.), Teaching the History of Economic Thought. Integrating Historical Perspectives into Modern Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, hb, vi+150 pages, ISBN 978-1-78811-347-2 pp. 126-131

George Şerban-Oprescu

Review of Max Haiven, Art after Money, Money after Art; Creative Strategies Against Financialization, London: Pluto Press, 2018, 279 pp., pb. £19,99, ISBN 978-074533824 pp. 132-135

Georgios Papadopoulos

Volume 11, issue 2, 2018

Crises, confidence, and animal spirits:exploring subjectivity in the dualism of Descartes and Keynes pp. 1-28

Sonya Marie Scott

Descartes and the notion of animal spirits: a brief historico-philosophical remark on Sonya Marie Scott’s ‘Crises, confidence, and animal spirits: exploring subjectivity in the dualism of Descartes and Keynes’ pp. 29-36

Kurt Smith

Reclaiming the University: transforming economics as a discipline pp. 37-66

Arne Heise

A comment on the law of supply and demand pp. 67-80

M. Northrup Buechner

A comment on ‘Comment on the law of supply and demand’ pp. 81-94

Emil Dinga

Volume 11, issue 1, 2017

How to transform economics? A philosophical appraisal pp. 1-26

Deniz Kellecioglu

The order of social sciences: sociology in dialogue with neighbouring disciplines pp. 27-52

Dieter Bögenhold

Smith’s invisible hand: controversy is needed pp. 53-82

Flavia Di Mario and Andrea Micocci

Some thoughts on ancient civilizations’ trinity of philosophy, religion and economics pp. 83-102

Soumitra Sharma

A multidisciplinary-economic framework of analysis pp. 103-132

Piet Keizer

Volume 10, issue 2, 2017

Economics, chrematistics, oikos and polis in Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas pp. 5-46

José Luis Cendejas Bueno

‘Growth in a Time of Debt’ as an example of the logical-positivist science pp. 47-64

Mariusz Maziarz

The dominion of means over ends. Modern bank credit and Max Weber’s irrational rationalization pp. 65-101

Domenico Cortese

Economic theory in historical perspective pp. 102-124

Lefteris Tsoulfidis

Review of Ajit Sinha, A Revolution in Economic Theory: The Economics of Piero Sraffa, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, x + 244 pages, ISBN 978-3319306155 pp. 125-131

Romar Correa

Volume 10, issue 1, 2016

Aristotle on justice in exchange:commensurability by fiat pp. 5-27

Mark S. Peacock

Economic crisis, economic methodology and the scientific ideal of physics pp. 28-57

Stavros Drakopoulos

Planning horizons as an ordinal entropic measure of organization pp. 58-80

Frederic B. Jennings

‘Why has economics turned out this way?’ A socio-economic note on the explanation of monism in economics pp. 81-101

Arne Heise

Review of Altug Yalcintas, Intellectual Path Dependence in Economics: Why economists do not reject refuted theories, Routledge, 2016, hb, xiv + 173 pages, ISBN 978-1-138-01617-0 pp. 102-105

Valentin Cojanu

Review of Mary Godwin, Ethics and Diversity in Business Management Education. A Sociological Study with International Scope, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2015, eb, x + 94 pages, ISBN 978-3-662-46654-4 pp. 106-109

Stipe Buzar