A reading guide to the archive
Explore Elias L Khalil’s academic writings through six themes, with full citations and links back to the original archive entries.
These are editorial groupings based on the listed titles and citations. They are starting points for reading, rather than summaries of the arguments or findings. Dates, forthcoming labels and review notes remain as listed in the archive.
Research theme
Start with writings whose titles discuss Adam Smith, sympathy, friendship and self-command.
Journal Papers · 2025 Forthcoming
2025 Forthcoming
Khalil, Elias L.“Mutual Sympathy contra Peculiar Sympathy: Adam Smith’s Distinction between Fondness and Admiration.” Adam Smith Review, 2025, 14, pp. 250-277.
Journal Papers · 2010
2010
Khalil, Elias L.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2008.00182.x
“Adam Smith's Concept of Self-Command as a Solution to Dynamic Inconsistency and the Commitment Problem.” Economic Inquiry, January 2010, 48:1, pp. 177-191.
Journal Papers · June 2023
June 2023
Khalil, Elias L.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837221000602
“Does Friendship Stem from Altruism? Adam Smith and the Distinction Between Love-based and Interest-based Preferences.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, June 2023, 45:2, pp. 249-277.
Research theme
Explore entries on institutions, rules and the evaluation of transactions.
Working Papers · 2026
2026
Khalil, Elias L.
“Rules and Temptations: Which Came First?” Journal of Institutional Economics, 2026, forthcoming.
Journal Papers · 2013
2013
Khalil, Elias L.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2011.10.017
“Lock-in Institutions and Efficiency.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, April 2013, 88, pp. 27-36.
Journal Papers · 2012
2012
Khalil, Elias L.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6419.2010.00654.x
“Why Europe? A Critique of Institutionalist and Culturalist Economics.” Journal of Economic Surveys, 2012, 26:2, pp. 351–372.
Research theme
Find writings on rationality, cognitive processes and habitual behaviour.
Working Papers · 2023
2023
Khalil, Elias L.
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.129786.1
Khalil, Elias L. “Is Rationality a Cognitive Faculty?” [version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]. F1000Research, 2023, 12:83.
Journal Papers · 2023
2023
Khalil, Elias L. and Anzzam Aminhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03554-5
“The Parallelism Hypothesis of Cognitive Economy and Physiological Economy: A Rationality-Based Dual Process Theory.” Current Psychology, 2023, 42, pp. 24148–24162.
Journal Papers · 2022
2022
Khalil, Elias L.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03815-7
“The Information Inelasticity of Habits: Kahneman’s Bounded Rationality or Simon’s Procedural Rationality?” Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 2022, 200:343, online publication.
Research theme
Follow connections between natural selection, rational choice and evolutionary selection in the listed titles.
Working Papers · 2024
2024
Khalil, Elias L.
“Natural Selection and Rational Choice.” Working paper, 2024.
Journal Papers · 2009
2009
Khalil, Elias L.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-008-0120-x
“Natural Selection and Rational Decision: Two Concepts of Optimization.” Journal of Evolutionary Economics, June 2009, 19:3, pp. 417-435.
Journal Papers · 2000
2000
https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012230728158
“Survival of the Most Foolish of Fools: The Limits of Evolutionary Selection Theory.” Journal of Bioeconomics, 2000, 2:3, pp. 203-220.
Research theme
Read across entries on trust, promise-keeping and self-deception, including the edited volume Trust.
Edited Books · 2003
2003
Trust. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003. Khalil, Elias L. “Why does Trustworthiness Pay? Three Answers: An Introduction.” In: Trust, ed. E.L. Khalil. A volume of “Critical Studies in Economic Institutions,” series editor: Geoffrey M. Hodgson. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003, pp. xiii-xxxii.
Working Papers · 2024
2024
Khalil, Elias L.
“Opportunism contra Deception: Promise-Keeping, Rational Strategy, and the Prisoners’ Dilemma.” Working paper, 2024.
Journal Papers · 2017
2017
Khalil, Elias L.https://doi.org/10.1017/S003181911700033X
“Making Sense of Self-Deception: Distinguishing Self-Deception from Delusion, Moral Licensing, Cognitive Dissonance and Other Self-Distortions.” Philosophy, October 2017, 92:362, pp. 539-563.
Research theme
Locate the edited book, symposium and journal writing linked to Dewey and economic inquiry.
Edited Books · 2004
2004
Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology. London: Routledge, 2004. Khalil, Elias L. “John Dewey, the Transactional View and the Behavioral Sciences: An Introduction.” In: Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology, ed. E.L. Khalil. London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 1-12.
Edited Symposia in Peer – Reviewed Journals · 2003
2003
Guest Editor, “Symposium: John Dewey and Economic Theory,” Journal of Economic Methodology, June 2003 (Taylor & Francis) Khalil, Elias L. “The Context Problematic, Behavioral Economics and the Transactional View: An Introduction to `John Dewey and Economic Theory’.” Journal of Economic Methodology, June 2003, 10:2, pp. 107-130. (This Introduction overlaps with my essay, “Behavioral Economics and the Transactional View,” published by American Institute for Economic Research, under “Transactional Viewpoints,”, Winter 2003, 2:1, pp. 1-8)
Journal Papers · 2003
2003
Khalil, Elias L.https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178032000071057
“A Transactional View of Entrepreneurship: A Deweyan Approach.” Journal of Economic Methodology, June 2003, 10:2, pp. 161-179.
The complete bibliography
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