The Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) Research series encourages and explores the latest research by scholars. Our PPE Research series is a vehicle for scholars and graduate students to discuss and receive feedback on research.
The PPE Research seminar is typically held every other Friday from 2–3:30 p.m. during the fall and spring semesters.
For 2022–2023 academic year, we will be hosting a one-day conference in a condensed format on Friday, April 21, 2023 rather than a biweekly format.
If you are interested in presenting your research during the 2023–2024 academic year, please email EconomicLiberty@asu.edu with a brief abstract for review.
Seminar Schedule
2022–2023
This year we will be hosting a one-day conference on Friday, April 21, 2023 in COOR 6631.
Each session will be 60 minutes long with a 15 minute break between each session.
| Date | Presenter | Working Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 8 a.m. | Welcome | |
| 8:30 a.m. | James Strickland, School of Politics and Global Studies | Constitutional Change and Interest Mobilization: Insight from the Progressive Era |
| 9:45 a.m. | Ecem Okan, University of Lorraine | The Economic Role of Labor in Smith and Marx |
| 11 a.m. | Margaret Hanson, School of Politics and Global Studies | Property Seizure and Security in Tashkent's Urban Boom |
| Noon | Brown Bag Lunch | |
| 1 p.m. | Angela Barnes, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies | Self-Nudging: Inconsistent Actions and True Preferences |
| 2:15 p.m. | Matthijs Tieleman, Center for American Institutions | Seeds of Patriotism: The Origins of the Eighteenth-Century Patriot Atlantic |
| 3:30 p.m. | Scott Scheall, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts | The Rise, Fall, and Strange Resilience of the Greater Certainty Thesis in Economics |
2021–2022
Every other Friday from 2–3:30 p.m. via Zoom
* Note: The February 4 seminar will take place from 2:30–4 p.m.
Fall 2021
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Sep 24 | Vlad Tarko, University of Arizona | The Variety of Regulatory Regimes |
| Fri, Oct 8 | Kaitlyn Woltz, Claremont McKenna College | Wardens, Political Scapegoating, and the Role of Prison Journalism |
| Fri, Oct 22 | Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay, Goldsmiths, University of London | Richard Musgrave and the Art of Tax Reform |
| Fri, Nov 5 | Donna Feir, University of Victoria | The Determinants and Impacts of Historical Treaty-Making in Canada |
| Fri, Nov 19 | Dominic "Nick" Parker, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Per-capita Payments and Tribal Governance |
Spring 2022
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Feb 4 * | Peter de Marneffe, ASU School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies | The Significance of Injustice |
| Fri, Feb 18 | Emily Skarbek, Brown University | Analytical Narratives in Political Economy |
| Fri, Mar 4 | Ilia Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh | The Ostroms in Beijing |
| Fri, Mar 18 | Michael Moehler, Virginia Tech | Diversity, Polycentricity, Justice, and the Open Society |
| Fri, Apr 1 | Péter Galbács, Budapest Business School | Historical Methods in Economic Methodology |
| Fri, Apr 15 | Andrew Humphries, ASU School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership | Separation of Powers, Commutative Justice, and the Right of Revolution in Adam Smith |
2020–2021
Every Friday from 2–3:30 p.m. via Zoom
Fall 2020
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Sep 11 | Ross Emmett, ASU School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership | Orthodox Economics and the Human Sciences |
| Fri, Sep 18 | Andrew Smith, University of Liverpool | Informal Institutions as Moderators of the Effectiveness of Formal Institutions in Discouraging Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: How Changes in Norms and Values Interacted with U.S. Constitutional Limits |
| Fri, Sep 25 | Luc Bovens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | How Demographically Sorted is the US Voting-Age Population? |
| Fri, Oct 2 | Henry Thomson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | Controlling the Secret Police and Maintaining Social Order in Socialist Central and Eastern Europe |
| Fri, Oct 9 | Robert Sugden, University of East Anglia | The Community of Advantage |
| Fri, Oct 16 | None | |
| Fri, Oct 23 | James Strickland, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | Higher-Law Lobbying at Constitutional Conventions |
| Fri, Oct 30 | Saura Masconale, University of Arizona | Corporations and Moral Sentiments |
| Fri, Nov 6 | Voluntary Governance Conference | |
| Fri, Nov 13 | Erwin Dekker, Erasmus University of Rotterdam Pavel Kuchar, University of Bristol |
The Epistemological Break in Economics: What Does the Public Know about the Economy and What do Economists Know about the Public? |
| Fri, Nov 20 | Margaret Hanson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | Under the Veil of Democracy: What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy? |
Spring 2021
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Jan 22 | Winter Institute for the History of Economic Thought | |
| Fri, Jan 29 | "Risk, Uncertainty and Profit" 100th Anniversary Symposium | |
| Fri, Feb 5 | Philip Arthur, ASU School of Sustainability | Escaping Paternalism: A Response |
| Fri, Feb 12 | Tyler DesRoches, ASU School of Sustainability | When is Green Nudging Ethically Permissible? |
| Fri, Feb 19 | School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership Annual Spring Conference (Canceled) | |
| Fri, Feb 26 | Michiru Nagatsu, University of Helsinki | Non-paternalistic justification of nudges: a preference-constructivist approach |
| Fri, Mar 5 | Jennifer Jhun, Duke University | Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics |
| Fri, Mar 12 | Spring Break (Canceled) | |
| Fri, Mar 19 | Steven McMullen, Hope College | Can Baby Bonds Address Historic Racial Injustice? |
| Fri, Mar 26 | Glory Liu, Harvard University | Adam Smith, History, and the Meaning of Das Adam Smith Problem in the Progressive Era |
| Fri, Apr 2 | Stefanie Haeffele, George Mason University | Crisis as a Source of Social Capital: Adaptation and Formation of Social Capital during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Fri, Apr 9 | Brianne Wolf, Michigan State University | No Man is an Island Entire of Itself: Adam Smith on Homoeconomicus, Autonomy, and Judgment |
| Fri, Apr 16 | Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University | Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics |
| Fri, Apr 23 | Péter Galbács, Budapest Business School | Lucas's way to his monetary theory of large-scale fluctuations |
2019–2020
Every Friday from 2–3:30 p.m. in CPCOM 480
Fall 2019
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Fri, Sep 6 | Ross Emmett, ASU School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership | The Cautious Optimist: T. Robert Malthus on Population, Civilization and Progress |
| Fri, Sep 13 | Paul Dragos Aligica, George Mason University | Polycentricity and Modus Vivendi |
| Fri, Sep 20 | Margaret Hanson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | Anti-Corruption in Policy and Practice |
| Fri, Sep 27 | Mary-Elizabeth Xaevier, ASU School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies | Well-Being in Economics: Finding the Threshold of Well-Being |
| Fri, Oct 4 | Stefan Kolev, University of Erfurt | The Roads to Mont Pèlerin: Parallel Quests for Order in “Old Chicago” and Freiburg |
| Fri, Oct 11 | Amin Sabzehzar, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business | The Role of Religion in Online Prosocial Lending |
| Fri, Oct 18 | David Schmidtz, University of Arizona | Rediscovering Moral Science |
| Fri, Oct 25 | Rebecca Livernois, University of British Columbia | Epistemic Ascriptions and the Actualization of Externalities |
| Fri, Nov 1 | Robert Kirsch, ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts | Confronting “Imbecile Institutions:” Populism in the United States |
| Fri, Nov 8 | Joshua Kane, ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts | SYNERGIES of LIBERTY: Defense Expenditure and Industrial Take-Off During the Second Hundred Years War |
| Fri, Nov 15 | Mehrdad Esfahani, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business | Lifetime Inequality Across US and Europe |
| Fri, Nov 22 | Scott Scheall, ASU College Of Integrative Sciences and Arts | F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics |
Spring 2020
| Date | Presenter | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Jan 24 | Winter Institute for the History of Economic Thought | ||
| Fri, Jan 31 | Pedro Garcia Duarte, University of São Paulo | Frank Ramsey’s Place in the History of Mathematical Economics | |
| Fri, Feb 7 | Rodney Machokoto, ASU School of Community Resources and Development | Economics of Social Change — Systemic Social Change | |
| Fri, Feb 14 | Valery Dzutsati, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | The Logic of Violent Action against Secession: Security, Redistribution, and Culture | |
| Fri, Feb 21 | Michael Gifford, ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts | Truth, Pragmatism, and Politics: Cheryl Misak on the Relevance of a Peircean Conception of Truth to Political Theory |
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| Fri, Feb 28 | School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership Annual Spring Conference | Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America | |
| Fri, Mar 6 | Ecem Okan, Center for the Study of Economic Liberty | Smith's History of Europe: The Extent of Hume's Influence | |
| Fri, Mar 13 | Spring Break | ||
| Fri, Mar 20 | Haeyoung Lim, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies (via Zoom) | Transparency, Institution, and Investment: The Case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) |
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| Fri, Mar 27 | Margaret Hanson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies (via Zoom) | Measuring Judicial Corruption | |
| Fri, Apr 10 | M. Nazim Tamkoç, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business (via Zoom) | Production Complexity, Talent Misallocation and Development | |
| Fri, Apr 17 | Ahmet Altinok, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business (via Zoom) | Dynamic Many-to-One Matching | |
| Fri, Apr 24 | Jennifer Jhun, Duke University (Canceled) | TBA | |
2018–2019
Every Monday from noon–1:30 p.m. in CPCOM 480
Spring 2019
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Mon, Jan 14 | Scott Scheall, ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts | Ignorance and the Incentive Structure Facing Policymakers |
| Mon, Jan 21 | Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Observed | |
| Mon, Jan 28 | Péter Galbács, Budapest Business School | Some Notes on Robert Lucas’s Notes: The Lucas Papers in Methodological Perspective |
| Mon, Feb 4 | Ross Emmett, ASU School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership | Revisiting Frank Knight's "The Ethics of Competition" |
| Mon, Feb 11 | Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College | The Rise and Fall of Import Substitution |
| Mon, Feb 18 | Henry Thomson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies | Lord, Peasant... and Tractor? Landed Elites, Agricultural Mechanization and Democracy |
| Mon, Feb 25 | Helen Baxendale, University of Oxford | Teach for America as Institutional Subversive: The role of New Agents in American Education Reform |
| Mon, Mar 4 | Spring Break | |
| Mon, Mar 11 | Tyler DesRoches, ASU School of Sustainability | Value Commitment, Resolute Choice, and the Normative Foundation of Behavioral Welfare Economics |
| Mon, Mar 18 | Chen Liang, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business | IT-Enabled Monitoring and Labor Contracting in Online Platforms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
| Mon, Mar 25 | Margaret Hanson, ASU School of Politics and Global Studies (Canceled) | TBA |
| Mon, Apr 1 | Bryan Leonard, ASU School of Sustainability | Property Rights and Path Dependence: 19th century Land Policy and Modern Economic Outcomes |
| Mon, Apr 8 | Amir Sabzehzar, ASU W. P. Carey School of Business | Dynamic Shifting in Lending Priorities in Prosocial Crowdfunding Platform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
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