Philosophy & Ethics
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Dancing in the Dark: Creating an Economics for the 21st Century
May 12, 2013
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, many of our policy makers and top economists are still stumbling in the dark.
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A new way of thinking in economics
Apr 2, 2013
What is the purpose of economics?
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The Consequences of a Leaderless Economy
Mar 26, 2013
What happens when there’s no leader in the global economy?
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Years granted:
2013
The Significance of Inequality: Between Economics and Philosophy
This research project shows what economists can learn from political philosophers in thinking about economic inequality while also investigating the philosophical significance of recent empirical work on inequality, within economics and elsewhere.
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What About the Questions That Economics Can’t Answer?
Sep 24, 2012
Can economics be morally centered? And perhaps more importantly, should it be?
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Years granted:
2011, 2012
Economic Thinking and Buddhist Thinking
This research projects aims to understand Buddhist thinking in rational choice terms and apply that to some important contemporary economic problems.