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» Working Papers
To peruse a selection of our faculty's working papers, please click on their name below.
Sebastian Cortes-Corrales
“How does the network structure affect connection-specific choices? An experiment on the competitive alloca- tion of resources in weighted network", with D. Rojo Arjona.
“Strength asymmetries in conflict networks"
Bas van der Vossen
“A Dialogue That Never Was: John Locke and Rachel Speght on Gender Equality”, with Katharine Gillespie.
“Property Rights in the Face of Historic Injustice”, with Fabian Wendt.
“Nozick’s Lockean Roots”, in progress, invited for Ralf Bader (ed.), Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia at 50, (Cambridge University Press).
“Equality of Opportunity for Rights Theorists”
John Thrasher
Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Experimental Political Philosophy: A Manifesto.” Forthcoming. In Matt Lindauer (ed.) Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy. Bloomsbury.
“What Does Labor Mixing Get You?” Forthcoming. In Matt Lindauer (ed.) Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy. Bloomsbury, with Shaun Nichols.
“Game Theory.” 2022. In Chris Melenovsky (ed.) Routledge Companion to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. 67-80.
“Contractarian Justifications.” 2022. In Ben Ferguson and Matt Zwolinski (eds.) Routledge Companion to Libertarianism. 56-67.
Working papers
“Contract, Convention, and Justification”
“Liberalism, Consensus, and Contract”
“Ownership and Convention” with Shaun Nichols.
“Putting Capitalism in its Place” with Dan Halliday.
“The Conventionality of Moral Judgment: An Experimental Investigation” with Erik Kimbrough.Keh Kuan Sun
“Non- Allais Paradox and Context Dependent Risk Attitudes”, with Edward Honda.
“Communication, Coordination, and Language Styles”, with Saumya Deojain.
“Hope and Belief”, with Erik Kimbrough.
Virginia Postrel
“Natural, Artificial, Ethical? How Synthetic Biology Is Overturning Old Categories”, Coller Venture Review, forthcoming December 2022.
“Willa Cather: Great American Novelist”, Substack, November 3, 2022.
“Time to Build: California’s Housing Reforms Are About to Pay Off”, Print Magazine, October 21, 2022.
“Ambition and the Meanings of Success”, Substack, October 31, 2022.
“How to Honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month”, Substack, October 9, 2022.
“Status and Culture Review: Making the Cut”, The Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2022 (review of Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change by W. David Marx).
“Stop with the Jetsons Nostalgia!” Print Magazine, September 23, 2022.
“Who Would Want a Robot Caregiver?” Print Magazine, August 23, 2022.
“Marc Andreessen’s Housing NIMBYism Is Losing Ground”, Bloomberg Opinion, Aug 9, 2022.
“Can the U.S. Housing Crisis Be Fixed by Abolishing Zoning”, Bloomberg Opinion, July 31, 2022.
“Shrinkflation, Disqualiflation, Depression, and More”, Substack, July 28, 2022.
“Sneaky Shrinkflation Is Driving People Crazy”, Bloomberg Opinion, July 26, 2022.
“A Fabric Expert’s Peek Into the Textile Factories of Europe”, Print Magazine, July 22, 2022.
“Do Upwardly Mobile Latino Plumbers Have Anyone to Vote for?” Substack, July 19, 2022.
“Travel Hell Isn’t Just an American Phenomenon”, Print Magazine, July 8, 2022.
Andrea Matranga
“The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture”. Revised and Resubmitted to the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Keith Hankins
“Does (mis)communication mitigate the upshot of diversity,” with Ryan Muldoon and Alex Schaefer, Revise and Resubmit at PLOS One.
David Rojo Arjona
"The Curse of Centrality in Weighted Networks", with Sebastian Cortes-Corrales. Revision Requested at American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
"Choice Flexibility and Long-Run Cooperation", with Gabriele Camera and Jaehong Kim. Resubmitted at Economic Journal.
Erik Kimbrough
“On the Stability of Norms and Norm-Following Propensity,” with Erin L. Krupka, Rajnish Kumar, Jennifer Murray, and Abhijit Ramalingam
“Selection homophily and peer influence effects for experimentally measured smoking and vaping norms, and smoking outcomes, for adolescents participating in school-based smoking prevention interventions: The MECHANISMS study,” with Murray, Jennifer M., Sharon C. Sanchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Christopher Tate, Shannon C. Montgomery, Joaquín Jaramillo, Rajnish Kumar, Laura Dunne, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erin L. Krupka, Felipe Montes, Huiyu Zhou, Laurence Moore, Linda Bauld, Blanca Llorente, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter.
“Ecological Influences on Informal Property Rights."
"A Theory of Injunctive Norms", with Alexander Vostroknutov.
"Injunctive Norms and Moral Rules", with Alexander Vostroknutov."
Kimbrough, Erik O. and Alexander Vostroknutov. "A Theory of Moral Reasoning."
Aycinena, Diego, Francesco Bogliacino, and Erik O. Kimbrough. "Measuring Norms: Assessing the Threat of Social Desirability Bias to the Bicchieri and Xiao Elicitation Method,"with Diego Aycinena and Francesco Bogliacino. Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Avner Seror
Vernon Smith
Smith, Vernon L., Wilson, Bart J. (2017). "Equilibrium Play in Voluntary Ultimatum Games: Beneficence Cannot Be Extorted."
Bart Wilson
“The Conceptual Semantics of “Money” and “Exchangeable Value of Goods” in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations”, with Gian Marco Farese.
“The Primacy of Property; Or, The Subordination of Property Rights”
“The Symbolic Work of Prices” with Akash Miharia and Jan Osborn.