2018 Summer Institute

Till Düppe  is an Associate Professor at the University of Québec in Montréal. I obtained my PhD in 2009 from the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics in Rotterdam. My main research interest is the historical epistemology of economics, inspired by phenomenological philosophy. I’m the author, jointly with E. Roy Weintraub, of “Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit” (Princeton 2014, Joseph Spengler book prize 2016), and received the ESHET Young Researcher Award 2018.

Wade Hands is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Puget Sound. He is author of Reflection Without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory (2001), editor (with John Davis) of The Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology (2011) and (with Philip Mirowski) Agreement on Demand: Consumer Theory in the Twentieth Century (2006). He is a past president of the History of Economics Society and is currently co-editor (with John Davis) of The Journal of Economic Methodology. His research crosses the fields of economic methodology, the philosophy of economics, and the history of modern economic thought. His paper “The Individual and the Market: Paul Samuelson on (Homothetic) Santa Claus Economics” (2016) received the 2017 Best Article Award from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. Current research interests include behavioral welfare economics, the notion of rationalization in choice theory, all-things-considered-preferences, and the evolution of “standard economics.”

Edward Nik-Khah is a Professor of Economics at Roanoke College. He is the author of The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information (2017, with Philip Mirowski), and editor of The Contributions of Business to Economics (2017, with Robert Van Horn). He has been a research fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy and the Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University. His previously completed research has addressed such topics as the history of neoliberalism, economics imperialism, the political economy of pharmaceutical science, and market design; for his work on market design, the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy awarded him the K. William Kapp Prize.

Matt Panhans is an Economist at the Federal Trade Commission.  He received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University.  His research interests include the history of applied economics, covering the history of applied methodologies, health economics, and the economics of antitrust.  In addition, his research includes work in empirical economics related to healthcare, public economics, and industrial organization.

Mary Poovey has recently retired from New York University, where she was the Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities.  She has written many books and articles on subjects ranging from feminist theory to administrative reform in nineteenth-century Britain.  She has recently published *Finance in America: An Unfinished Story* (co-authored with Kevin R. Brine). This is the final book of a trilogy that explores the history of the concepts and modes of representation that inform modern finance.  The other two books in the series are *A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society* and *Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain.*  All were published by the University of Chicago Press.

John Singleton is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. He received his B.A. at Calvin College, M.A. from University of Colorado Denver, and Ph.D from Duke University, where his thesis research was supported by a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation dissertation completion fellowship. In addition to work that examines empirical questions related to the equity and finance of school choice policies, his research focuses on the recent history of applied microeconomics. His historical work has appeared in History of Political Economy and been presented at the Allied Social Science Associations meetings, the Center for the History of Political Economy, the History of Economics Society, and the Summer Institute for the History of Economic Thought. With J. Daniel Hammond and Steven G. Medema, he also co-edited Chicago Price Theory (Edward Elgar, 2013).

Maria Bach is finishing her PhD at King’s College London in International Political Economy. Her thesis analyses how Indian political economists constructed an idea of development at the turn of the nineteenth century. She has a forthcoming journal article on Mahadev Govind Ranade’s idea of progress in late 19th century India in the European Journal for the History of Economic Thought. She is currently an Economics Lecturer at the American University of Paris and has previously taught economic history at the London School of Economics, as well as International Political Economy and Economics at King’s College London. From 2013 to 2014, she was a consultant at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris working on a project titled New Approaches to Economic Challenges.

Markus Bjoerkheim is a Ph.D. student in Economics at George Mason University. His current work analyses the Earhart Foundation’s Fellowship from a network perspective. In the past his work has focused on applications of moral hazard, and the political economy of his native Norway’s sovereign wealth fund. He received his B.S. from James Madison University in 2014, and his M.A. from George Mason University in 2017, both in Economics.

Alexis Bureau-Thibault - graduated in economics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada), specializing in the history of economic thought and the epistemology of economics. He is currently a Master student in the Science and Technology Studies of the same institution. Throughout his cursus, he developed an interest for research on the evolution of labor as a philosophical concept through history of ideas. He is currently working on the development of the practice of management as a scientific discipline, focusing on the institutional status of business schools within higher education system. Besides his academic career, he is a proficient traveler and a part-time pirate.

Malte F. Dold is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Economics at New York University where he currently teaches a course, together with Mario Rizzo, on rationality and behavioral economics. In his PhD thesis, Malte discussed normative implications and methodological challenges of behavioral economics. He graduated with a PhD in economics from the University of Freiburg, Germany in January 2018. He holds a MA and a BA in philosophy and economics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Malte’s research on behavioral economics leads him quite naturally to methodological and historical issues at the intersection of economics and psychology. His work on normative questions in behavioral economics sparked his interest in the history of welfare economics in the 20th century, specifically the work of James Buchanan and Amartya Sen.

Zoé Evrard - studied public administration, economics, and philosophy at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is now a Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo), in Paris. During her graduate studies, she also became active in student movements defending a more pluralistic approach in the economics curricula. Her Master's thesis in political science focused on the gradual transformation of pension schemes in Belgium. Her PhD research project at MaxPo seeks to extend the emerging historiography of neoliberalism in a currently under-explored context: Belgium. Why, how and to what extent, could neoliberalism become dominant in the 1980s, and consolidate in the 1990s as the dominant policy paradigm in Belgium, is the question it seeks to answer. Adopting discursive neo-institutionalism as the main theoretical perspective, a historical approach supported by a process tracing methodology using qualitative data will be followed. 

Cristian Frasser is a PhD student at Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. His academic interests include monetary economics, philosophy of economics, and history of economics. The transformations of monetary economics experienced since the late eighties, especially the development of models that satisfy the so-called Wallace’s dictum caught his attention. He thus makes attempts to provide a methodological framework to account for such transformations. He also works currently on search-theoretic models for the use of illegal commodities as means of payment. Finally, he is interested in discussing the ontology of money from a naturalistic perspective. 

Kelly Goodman is a PhD candidate in History at Yale University.  Her dissertation investigates the coordinated passage of statutory and constitutional limits on taxing and spending during the 1930s and 1970s economic crises in California and Michigan.  Tax limit backers, including public choice economists, promoted their legislative bills and ballot initiatives with popular economic ideas.  Kelly’s research in the history of economic thought traces these ideas to nineteenth and twentieth-century American interpretations of French political economy and the Scottish Enlightenment.   She is excited to visit Durham with historians of economic thought working on international projects.

Zachary Griffen - is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at UCLA. His research uses comparative and historical methods to investigate the relationship between economic expertise and social policy. In his dissertation, he compares the historical trajectories of two subfields in economics, the economics of education and health economics, from the 1950s onward. Broadly speaking, he is interested in the history and organization of social scientific expertise, and in particular how social scientists develop the capacity to intervene in public affairs.

Tom Kayzel - is a PhD Candidate in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Amsterdam.  He is interested in how economics have shaped the cognitive space in which policymakers and politician conceive of economic issues; and how economists have established themselves as experts on these matters. His current PhD-research concerns the history of the Dutch Central Planning Bureau, the most prominent economic advisory body to the Dutch government. The aim of this research is to understand how the developments in the theory and practice of macroeconomic modelling within the Central Planning Bureau are linked to the development of economic policy paradigms in the Netherlands and specific forms of economic expertise from 1945 to 1990. 

Sharmin Khodaiji - is completing her PhD from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. The PhD will explore the emergence of a field such as 'Indian Economics' during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in colonial India. Her area of interest is the history of political economy in India, especially the institutionalization of the discipline of economics in Indian universities, textbook writing, and formation of journals and associations for economists. 

Romain Plassard 

Marius Kuster  is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Lausanne (Centre Walras-Pareto). He holds a Bachelor in History and a Master in Economics from the University of Zurich. In his dissertation he investigates the role of metaphors in shaping the understanding of crises and cycles in the German Historical School. A main focus lies on organic metaphors from biology that influenced worldviews of policy makers at the end of the 19th century. The dissertation is embedded in the project «The metaphorical characterization of equilibrium, economic crises, and business cycles» where he works together with Justine Loulergue. Further research interests include history of speculation and inflation, food history, rationing, poverty and history of the cooperative movement.

Christina Laskaridis is a PhD candidate in Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her research interests include history of debt and monetary debates, with a focus on theory and practice of debt sustainability. She has been a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS and taught at UCL. Christina is looking forward to the Summer Institute to meet fellow researchers and learn more about History of Economic Thought.

Justine Loulergue - is a PhD student at Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1) and Lausanne University. She holds a MA in History of Philosophy from Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4), and a MA in Economics from Paris 1, with a specialization in the epistemology of economics. Her academic interests include pragmatism, language, uncertainty,... She currently writes her PhD about the Metaphors of Equilibrium in the French speaking economic literature of the 2nd XIXth century. She works together with Marius Kuster as parts of a project held at Lausanne University on Metaphors and Analogies of crisis and equilibrium in the European XIXth century.

Mark McAdam is a Ph.D. candidate in International Political Economy at Witten/Herdecke University (Germany). His research focuses on the role ideas play in effecting public policy outcomes generally, with a specific emphasis on the formulation of trade policy in the John F. Kennedy administration. He is particularly interested in the history of economic thought because he believes that other social sciences can utilize its insights for their own methodologies. When not researching in archives or writing, he enjoys (European) football, hiking, cooking, and traveling.   
 

Ohad Reiss Sorokin - is a PhD candidate in History of Science at Princeton University. His dissertation tells the story of the Geistkreis, an interdisciplinary student-based intellectual circle based in inter-war Vienna. By following the circle’s main participants, many of whom became prominent figures in the social sciences, Ohad wishes to explore the changes in the relations between philosophy, psychology, and economics during the 20th century in light of the transition from Vienna to the United States. Ohad has an M.A. in philosophy from the Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel-Aviv University; his master’s thesis focuses on the knowledge production process in philosophy.

Pete Vechsuruck - is currently a graduate instructor and a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Utah. His research focuses on macroeconomics, economic development and history of economic thought. The first chapter of his dissertation applies the history of economic thought analysis and uses archival material to examine the ideas of two prominent figures during the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes and Marriner S. Eccles, the Federal Reserve Chairman during the FDR administration. The chapter compares Keynes and Eccles interpretations of effective demand and fiscal policies and how it results in economic fluctuations. It heavily relies on the Eccles Papers housed at the Marriot Library, the University of Utah.  Pete will be joining the Department of Economics at the University of Rhode Island in Fall 2018.

Roel Visser is a PhD student in the Philosophy of Science at Bielefeld University in Germany. He previously studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the Universities of Utrecht, York and Rotterdam. His thesis is about the effect of scientific uncertainty on policy advice, in particular macroeconomic forecasting uncertainty. At the Summer Institute, he hopes to learn more about historical research methods and the relation between the History of Economic Thought and the Philosophy of Science.