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.