PhD defence of Vaios Koliofotis on “Evolutionary Explanations in Economics”
The public defence will take place on November 18 at the Senate Hall, 1st floor Erasmus Building, location campus Woudestein. The ceremony will begin exactly at 10.30 AM.
The public defence will take place on November 18 at the Senate Hall, 1st floor Erasmus Building, location campus Woudestein. The ceremony will begin exactly at 10.30 AM.
We will present “Objective Fairness and its Two Dimensions” at the 15th Biennial Meeting of the International Network for Economic Method, held at Arizona State University, November 12-14, 2021.
In collaboration with C. Heilmann and M. Szymanowska, Melissa Vergara-Fernándes presented on the “Model Diversity in Financial Economics” at the European Philosophy of Science Association in September 2021
Our chapter “Fairness and Fair Division” is forthcoming in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics Abstract. Fairness is important concept in Western philosophy and in economics alike. We review the so-called fair division theories in philosophy and economics that explore fairness as a distinct value concept. Philosophers build on John Broome’s influential account of … Read more
‘Mathematical psychics’ was the name of the approach and the book by Edgeworth for a burgeoning scientific approach, also pioneered by Pareto, for that part of psychology on which economics rests. The nature of the subject of this approach raises the prospect that this approach can also be of interest to practitioners of other sciences … Read more
The important ‘no-envy’ fairness criterion has typically been attributed to Foley (1967) and sometimes to Tinbergen (1946, 1953). We reveal that Jan Tinbergen introduced ‘no-envy’ as a fairness criterion in his article “Mathematiese Psychologie” published in 1930 in the Dutch journal Mens en Maatschappij and translated as “Mathematical Psychology” in 2021 in the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and … Read more
Conrad Heilmann gave a talk on “Testing Concerns About Financial Economics” together with M. Vergara-Fernández and M. Szymanowska at the British Society for the Philosophy of the Science in July 2021.
In collaboration with C. Heilmann and M. Szymanowska, Melissa Vergara-Fernándes presented on the “Model Diversity in Financial Economics” at the British Society for the Philosophy of Science in July 2021
Conrad Heilmann gave a talk on the ethical debate surrounding Artificial Intelligence at the Bachelor Honours Class of the Erasmus School of Economics on April, 2021.
Write a PhD thesis on fairness, based at EIPE and ESPhil – the ad for the fully funded PhD position can be found here.