Essays / Comments

  1. “How not to Think about Moral Values.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, forthcoming. (Invited commentary on Paul Zak’s “Moral Markets.”)
  2. “Self-Deceit and Self-Serving Bias: Adam Smith on ‘General Rules`.” Journal of Institutional Economics, August 2009, 5:2, pp. 251-258.
  3. “Are Stomachs Rational?” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2009, 32:1, pp. 91-92. (DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X09000375) (Invited commentary on Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater’s Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning.)
  4. “Are Addictions ‘Biases and Errors’ in the Rational Decision Process?” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2008, 31:4, pp. 449-450. (Invited commentary on A. David Redish, Steve Jensen, and Adam Johnson’s “A Unified Framework for Addiction: Vulnerabilities in the Decision Process.”)
  5. “Tastes.” International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed. Edited by William A. Darity, Jr., Vol. 8. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008, pp. 266-270.
  6. “Economics.” American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 203-4.
  7. “Animal Innovation and Rationality: Distinguishing Productivity from Efficiency.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2007, 30:4, pp. 414-415. (Invited commentary on Grant Ramsey, Meredith L. Bastian, and Carel van Schaik’s “Animal Innovation Defined and Operationalized.”)
  8. “Fragment, Ibn Khaldûn on Property Rights, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History.” Journal of Institutional Economics, August 2007, 3:2, pp. 227-238.
  9. “Comment and Reply” (Ibn Khaldûn as neither “Muslim” nor “Arab”). Contemporary Sociology, March 2007, 36:2, pp. 204-205. (Reply by Lawrence Rosen.)
  10. “Is a Group Better Off with More Altruists? Not Necessarily.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 53, 2004, pp. 89-92. (Invited commentary on Joseph Henrich’s “Cultural Group Selection, Coevolutionary Processes, and Large-Scale Cooperation.”)
  11. “Is the Prisoner’s Dilemma Metaphor Suitable for Altruism? Distinguishing Self-Control and Commitment from Altruism.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2002, 25:2, pp. 264-265. (Invited commentary on Howard Rachlin’s “Altruism and Selfishness.”)
  12. “Similarity vs. Familiarity: When Empathy Becomes Egocentric.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2002, 25:1, p. 41. (Invited commentary on Stephanie D. Preston and Frans B.M. de Waal’s “Empathy: Its Ultimate and Approximate Bases.”)
  13. “Commitment, the Multiple-Self Approach, and Communitarianism.” The Responsive Community, Winter 1998/99, 9:1, pp. 113-119. (Invited essay on the occasion of Amitai Etzioni’s 70th birthday).
  14. “Can Artificial Selection Remedy the Failing of Natural Selection with Regard to Scientific Validation?” Evolution and Cognition, Spring 1997, 3:1, pp. 71-74. (Invited commentary on Donald Campbell’s evolutionary epistemology.)
  15. “Organism and Organization” (a review article of Robert Rosen’s Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life). Biology & Philosophy, January 1997, 12:1, pp. 119-126.
  16. “Efficiency, Nature and the Division of Labor” (a review article of James Bernard Murphy’s The Moral Economy of Labor: Aristotelian Themes in Economic Theory). Journal of Economic Methodology, December 1996, 3:2, pp. 334-342.
  17. “Networks and Organizations.” In Malcolm Warner (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, six volumes, vol. 4, pp. 3629-3636. London: International Thomson Business Press, 1996. (Reprinted in Concise IEBM, one volume, 1997, pp. 486-493.)
  18. “Kenneth E. Boulding: 1910-1993.” Journal of Economic Methodology, June 1994, 1:1, pp. 161-166.
  19. “Trust.” In Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Warren J. Samuels, and Marc R. Tool (eds.) The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics, L-Z. Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 339-346.
  20. 20.“Rules.” In Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Warren J. Samuels, and Marc R. Tool (eds.) The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics, L-Z. Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 253-264.
  21. 21.“Entropy and Economics.” In Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Warren J. Samuels, and Marc R. Tool (eds.) The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics, A-K. Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 186-193.
  22. 22.“Does Theory of Rationality Need Folk Psychology?” (a review article of J. Gay Tulip Meeks’s (ed.) Thoughtful Economic Man: Essays on Rationality, Moral Rules and Benevolence). Methodus, June 1993, 5:1, pp. 140-143.
  23. 23.“Hayek’s Spontaneous Order and Varela’s Autopoiesis: A Comment.” Human Systems Management, 1992, 11:2, pp. 101-105.

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