Recent Papers

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"On the (non)History of Preference Purification in Modern Economics

"Libertarian Paternalism: Making Rational Fools," Review of Behavioral Economics, 8, 2021, 305-326.

"The Many Faces of Unification and Pluralism in Economics: The Case of Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 88, 2021, 209-219.

"Libertarian Paternalism: Taking Econs Seriously," International Review of Economics, 2020, 67, 419-441.

"Economic Methodology in the Twenty-First Century (So Far): Some Post-Reflection Reflections," Review of Economic Philosophy, 2019, 20, 221-252.

"Re-Examining Samuelson's Operationalist Methodology," in Paul Samuelson: Master of Modern Economics, R. Anderson, W. A. Barnett, and R. A. Cord (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 39-67.

“Hypothetical Pattern Explanations in Economic Science: Hayek’s Explanation of the Principle and Pattern Prediction Meets Contemporary Philosophy of Science,” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 36A, 2018, 37-57

“Revealed Preference, Afriat’s Theorem, and Falsifiability: A Review Essay on Revealed Preference Theory by Christopher P. Chambers and Federico Echenique,” OEconomia, 7-3, 2017, 409-438.

“Conundrums of the Representative Agent,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 41, 2017, 1685-1704.

“The Road to Rationalization: A History of ‘Where the Empirical Lives’ (or Has Lived) in Consumer Choice Theory,” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 24, 2017, 555-588.

“Crossing in the Night of the Cold War: Alternative Visions and Related Tensions in Western and Soviet General Equilibrium Theory,” History of Economic Ideas, 24, 2016, 51-74.

“The Individual and the Market: Paul Samuelson on (Homothetic) Santa Claus Economics,” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 23, 2016, 425-452.

“Derivational Robustness, Credible Substitute Systems and Mathematical Economic Models: The Case of Stability Analysis in Walrasian General Equilibrium Theory,” European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 6, 2016, 31-53.

“Orthodox and Heterodox Economics in Recent Economic Methodology,” Erasmus Journal for Philosophy of Economics, 8/1, 2015, 61-81. [Revised version of paper originally published as “Orthodox and Heterodox Economics in Recent Economic Methodology,” in Perspectives on Epistemology of Economics: Essays on Methodology of Economics, A. Lazzarini and D. Weisman (ed.), Buenos Aires: CIECE-UBA, 2012, 17-41. Reprinted with permission]

“Paul Samuelson and Revealed Preference Theory,” History of Political Economy, 46, 2014, 85-116.

“Normative Ecological Rationality: Normative Rationality in the Fast-and-Frugal-Heuristics Research Program,” Journal of Economics Methodology, 21, 2014, 396-410.

“Mark Blaug on the Normativity of Welfare Economics,” Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 6, 2013, 1-25.

“GP08 is the New F53: Gul and Pesendorfer’s Methodological Essay from the Viewpoint of Blaug’s Popperian Methodology,” in Mark Blaug: Rebel With Many Causes. M. Boumans and M. Klaes (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2013, 245-65.

“Foundations of Contemporary Revealed Preference Theory,” Erkenntnis, 78, 2013 1081-1108.