Check out this special issue of the Cosmos + Taxis journal on Scott Schealls book “F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics”. It features interesting contributions from NOUS members Peter Boettke, Eric Schliesser, Erwin Dekker and Roger Koppl.
InBeyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey zeroes in on the authoritarian cast of recent economics, arguing for a re-focusing on the liberated human. The behaviorist positivism fashionable in the field since Read more…
We study a bonus pay setting where a principal hires a supervisor to evaluate a group of potentially shirking workers. The supervisor and her workers develop relational feelings (either positive or negative) after interacting with Read more…
Many years ago, Emmanuel Todd came up with a classification of family types and argued that the historically prevalent family types in a society have important consequences for its economic, political, and social development. Here, Read more…