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In July 2021 I became Professor Emeritus in the Economics Department at the University of Puget Sound. I started at the University of Puget Sound in 1980 and it was my primary academic affiliation throughout my career, even though I had a number of sabbaticals, grant-assisted leaves, and visiting faculty positions over the years (see CV). I did my graduate work at Indiana University (IU). I received my PhD in Economics – my thesis was on "Stability and Uniqueness in Walrasian Equilibria" – although I also took graduate courses from the IU Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Although I was trained in microeconomics and mathematical economics, my primary scholarly interest, even as far back as my undergraduate days, was in the history and philosophy of economics. My research has always combined history of economics and philosophy of economics/economic methodology, but at times it leaned more in the history direction and other times it leaned more in the philosophy-methodology direction. In recent years the majority of my research could be called historical epistemology of economics, although that term can mean different things to different scholars.
Over the years I held a number of editorial and administrative positions within organizations and journals in the history and philosophy of economics. Some of these include: serving as President of the History of Economics Society (HES), being on the Executive Board of the International Network for Economic Method (INEM), serving as Associate Editor of Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Editor of the INEM Book Series, and Co-editor (with John B. Davis) of the Journal of Economic Methodology, as well as serving on numerous Editorial Boards (see CV for details). I received the HES Joseph J. Spengler Book Prize for Reflection Without Rules in 2004, the 2017 Best Article Award from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought for my "The Individual and the Market: Paul Samuelson on (Homothetic) Santa Claus Economics" published in the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought in 2016, and the Warren Samuels Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology and Emerald Literati Award for "Hypothetical Pattern Explanations in Economic Science: Hayek's Explanation of the Principle and Pattern Prediction Meets Contemporary Philosophy of Science" in 2018. I was extremely honored by the recent publication of a Festschrift volume: Methodology and History of Economics Reflections With and Without Rules (Routledge, 2023) edited by Bruce Caldwell, John Davis, Uskali Mäki, and Esther-Mirjam Sent.
The best way to contact me is at hands[at]pugetsound[dot]edu.
In July 2021 I became Professor Emeritus in the Economics Department at the University of Puget Sound. I started at the University of Puget Sound in 1980 and it was my primary academic affiliation throughout my career, even though I had a number of sabbaticals, grant-assisted leaves, and visiting faculty positions over the years (see CV). I did my graduate work at Indiana University (IU). I received my PhD in Economics – my thesis was on "Stability and Uniqueness in Walrasian Equilibria" – although I also took graduate courses from the IU Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Although I was trained in microeconomics and mathematical economics, my primary scholarly interest, even as far back as my undergraduate days, was in the history and philosophy of economics. My research has always combined history of economics and philosophy of economics/economic methodology, but at times it leaned more in the history direction and other times it leaned more in the philosophy-methodology direction. In recent years the majority of my research could be called historical epistemology of economics, although that term can mean different things to different scholars.
Over the years I held a number of editorial and administrative positions within organizations and journals in the history and philosophy of economics. Some of these include: serving as President of the History of Economics Society (HES), being on the Executive Board of the International Network for Economic Method (INEM), serving as Associate Editor of Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Editor of the INEM Book Series, and Co-editor (with John B. Davis) of the Journal of Economic Methodology, as well as serving on numerous Editorial Boards (see CV for details). I received the HES Joseph J. Spengler Book Prize for Reflection Without Rules in 2004, the 2017 Best Article Award from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought for my "The Individual and the Market: Paul Samuelson on (Homothetic) Santa Claus Economics" published in the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought in 2016, and the Warren Samuels Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology and Emerald Literati Award for "Hypothetical Pattern Explanations in Economic Science: Hayek's Explanation of the Principle and Pattern Prediction Meets Contemporary Philosophy of Science" in 2018. I was extremely honored by the recent publication of a Festschrift volume: Methodology and History of Economics Reflections With and Without Rules (Routledge, 2023) edited by Bruce Caldwell, John Davis, Uskali Mäki, and Esther-Mirjam Sent.
The best way to contact me is at hands[at]pugetsound[dot]edu.