Sumários

Control, separation and association: behavioural postulates

9 Outubro 2025, 14:30 Ana Cristina Costa


Control, separation and association: behavioural postulates

Required Readings for the lecture:

Simon, Herbert A. (1955), “A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 69: 99-118.

Complementary readings:

Kanheman, Daniel (2003), “Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics”, American Economic Review December: 1449-1475.


Control, separation and association: behavioural postulates

8 Outubro 2025, 13:00 Ana Cristina Costa


Control, separation and association: behavioural postulates

Required Readings for the lecture:

Sen, Amartya (1977), “Rational Fools”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 6(4): 317-344. 

Complementary readings:

Bowles, Samuel (2004), Microeconomics – Behaviour, Institutions, and Evolution, Princeton University Press,  [Chapter 3].

Hirschman, Albert O. (1985), “Against Parsimony: Three Easy Ways of Complicating some Categories of Economic Discourse”, Economics and Philosophy 1: 7-21.

Nussbaum, Martha C. (1997), “Flawed Foundations: The Philosophical Critique of (A Particular Type of) Economics”, The University of Chicago Law Review, 64(4): 1197-1214.

The problem of social order: control, separation and association

2 Outubro 2025, 14:30 Ana Cristina Costa


The problem of social order: control, separation and association 

Required Readings for the lecture:

Hardin, G. (1968), “The Tragedy of the Commons”, Science, 162:1243-1248.

Wade, Robert (1987), “The Management of Common Property Resources: collective action as an alternative to privatisation and state regulation”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 11: 95-106. 

Complementary readings:

Demstz, H. (1967), “Toward a theory of property rights”, American Economic Review, 62: 347-59.


Ideas and the making of the economy (conclusion)

2 Outubro 2025, 13:00 Ana Cristina Costa


Ideas and the making of the economy

Required Readings for the lecture:

Carstensen, Martin B. and Röper, Nils (2023), “Working with ideas: Collective bricolage, political tests and the emergence of policy paradigms”, Governance, e12882. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12882


Ideas and the making of the economy

25 Setembro 2025, 14:30 Ana Cristina Costa


Session 2: Ideas and the making of the economy

Required Readings for the lecture:

Blyth, Mark (2011), “Ideas, Uncertainty, and Evolution”,  in Daniel Béland and Robert Henry Cox (eds), Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research, pp. 83-101, New York: Oxford University Press.