Dissertations in History and Philosophy of Economics

Current Dissertations:

• Maarten Biermans, on The Civilizing Effect of the Market: Deontological Philosophy, Economics & International Labour Standards (supervisors Prof. Davis and Dr. Maas )
• Ricardo Crespo, on The Relevance of Aristotle to Contemporary Economics (supervisors Prof. Davis and Dr. Boumans)
• Dirk Damsma, on the relation between mathematics and Systematic Dialectics (supervisor Dr. Reuten)
• Fedrico D'Onofrio, on Economics and Observatory Sciences (supervisor Dr. Maas)
• Andrej Svorencik, on Observing in the Economic Laboratory (supervisor Dr. Maas)

Alumni:

• Bert Hamminga (promotor Prof. Klant): Neoclassical theory structure and theory development: an empirical-philosophical case study concerning the theory of international trade., 1983. (Dr. Hamminga is associate professor at Tilburg University, The Netherlands.)
• Geert Reuten and Michael Williams (promotors Prof. Glombowski and Prof. De Marchi): The value-form determination of economic policy: a dialectical theory of economy, society and state in the capitalist epoch, 1988. (Dr. Williams is a senior lecturer at the Montfort University, UK.)
• Jack Birner (promotor Prof. De Marchi): Strategies and programmes in capital theory: a contribution to the methodology of theory development , 1990. (Dr. Birner is lecturer at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.)
• Marcel Boumans (promotor Prof. De Marchi): A case of limited physics transfer: Jan Tinbergen's resources for re-shaping economics, 1992.
• Frank Kalshoven (promotor Prof. De Marchi, co-promotor Dr. Reuten): Over marxistische economie in Nederland, 1883-1939, 1993. (Dr. Kalshoven is  an economic journalist and deputy chief editor of  the Dutch daily newspaper 'de Volkskrant'.)
• Jack Vromen (promotor Prof. De Marchi): Evolution and efficiency: an inquiry into the foundations of "New Institutional Economics", 1994. (Dr. Vromen teaches at the Erasmus Institute of Philosophy and Economics , Erasmus University Rotterdam, Winner of 1995 Gunnar Myrdal Prize.)
• Joshua Cohen (promotor Prof. Morgan; co-promotor Dr. Reuten): Utility: a real thing: a study of utility's ontological status, 1997. (Dr. Cohen is senior research fellow at Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, Tufts University, Boston, USA.)
• Adrienne van den Bogaard (promotors Prof. Blume and Prof. Morgan): Configuring the Economy: The Emergence of a Modelling Practice in the Netherlands, 1920-1955 , 1998. (Dr. van den Bogaard teaches at the Faculteit Techiek, Bestuur an Management, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands.)
• Edith Kuiper (promotor Prof. Gustafsson, co-promotor Dr. Reuten): The Most Valuable of All Capital: A Gender Reading of Economic Texts, 2001.
• Harro Maas (promotor Prof. Morgan): Mechanical Reasoning: William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics, 2001.
• Robert Went (promotor Prof. Blaug and Dr. Reuten): Essays on Globalization: A Journey to a Possibly New Stage of Capitalism, 2001.
• Hsiang-Ke Chao (promotor: Prof. Morgan, co-promotor: Dr. Boumans): Representation and Structure. The Methodology of Econometric Models of Consumption, 2002.
• Peter Rodenburg (promotor: Prof. Morgan,co-promotor: Dr. Boumans): The Construction of Instruments for Measuring Unemployment, 2006.
• Floris Heukelom (promotors: Prof. Davis and Dr. Maas): Kahneman and Tversky and the Making of Behavioral Economics, 2009.
• Jan de Jonge (promotors: Prof. Davis): Rational and Moral Action: A Critical Survey of Rational Choice Theory, 2009.