Papers under Review

  1. “Cosmetic Surgery and Lifestyle Drugs: Happiness, Wellbeing, and Misery,” co-authored with Fiona Newton and Michael Ewing.
  2. “Can We Ground Group Boundary on Sympathy? A Vindication of David Hume’s Defense of European Exploitation of Native Americans.”
  3. “Why Europe? Institutionalist Economics, Culturalist Economics, and Beyond.”
  4. “The Rationality Principle versus the Truth Principle—Distinguishing Two Kinds of Maximization.”
  5. “Three Theories of Beliefs: Rational, Normative and Procedural.”
  6. “The Temper Tantrums of Nations: The Moral Outrage Puzzle.”
  7. “The Origin of Sin: A Two-Moment Decision Theory of Prudence, Fairness, Integrity and Other Internal Constraints.”
  8. “Are Plants Rational?”
  9. “Adam Smith’s Sympathy as a Theory of Rationality—Two Successes and Two Failures.”
  10. “Charles Darwin Meets Organismus economicus.”
  11. “Efficiency, Virtue, and Fellow-Feeling: How Far is Sympathy from the Adulation of the Rich and Powerful?

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