Paul Lewis

PPE Society: London 2025 - The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society We are pleased to share that, in addition to the PPE Society’s Annual Meetings held each year in New Orleans, the international PPE Society will…

The PPE Society and the Department of Political Economy at King's are hosting the first annual PPE conference this July in London 💭

Interested in submitting a proposal? The deadline is March 1, so don't forget to apply 📝

For more, see 🔽

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We'll be hosting the first UK PPE conference in July - please do submit your abstracts and spread the news!

A seminal work on ontology and economics: Tony Lawson’s Economics and Reality. www.routledge.com/Economics-an...

Title page of essay in open copy of Public Affairs Quarterly 38.3

In Public Affairs Quarterly 38.3, @johnmeadowcroft.bsky.social argues that Robert Nozick's "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" has been misread as a defense capitalism's inequalities. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/paq/article/38/3/173/392018/Emergence-as-a-Moral-Theory-Reappraising-Robert

Research report highlights transformational changes for UK technical workforce - UK ITSS A new report TALENT Programme: Interventions and Impact has been published to mark the conclusion of the TALENT programme.

The Talent Commission was important in highlighting technicians in our universities. The impact of their work still unfolding itss.org.uk/research-rep...

Thanks to the Royal Economic Society for publishing my overview of Elinor Ostrom's contribution to commons, climate economics and policy, "What works in practice can work in theory."

Such a lovely piece about valuing a really good local restaurant by @msrachelcooke.bsky.social (in last week’s Observer). She writes warmly about Trullo. I feel the same about the wonderful Les 2Garcons in Crouch End.

This is a fine, insightful book on those political aspects of the Ostroms’ work that receive less attention than they deserve. Highly recommended.

Intriguing paper by the great Elinor Ostrom. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fascinating, thought-provoking article on the need for a new moral political economy by Margaret Levi. academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Good book; fine cover.

Getting a bit realistic now. The Good Father out on 3 July…

Social Choice, Democracy, and Free Markets on JSTOR James M. Buchanan, Social Choice, Democracy, and Free Markets, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Apr., 1954), pp. 114-123

Fascinating paper by James Buchanan, engaging at a fundamental level with Kenneth Arrow’s work on social choice theory. www.jstor.org/stable/1825570

Current reading.

A comprehensive analysis of Amartya Sen’s fascinating notion of ’commitment’.

Elinor Ostrom: Rethinking sustainable governance today Discover how Elinor Ostrom's ideas on sustainable governance protect resources - and why her Nobel-winning principles are more vital now than ever.

A quick and insightful overview of Elinor Ostrom's life and ideas:

"Tackling the sustainability challenge collectively
Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for showing that ordinary people, working together, can manage natural resources sustainably. Her work is as relevant as ever."

Thank you, Erik!

Interested in how Elinor and Vincent Ostrom drew on ideas from cybernetics? Then check out this paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great Lives - Ruth Rogers on James Baldwin - BBC Sounds Ruth Rogers chooses the life of writer James Baldwin.

Another fine episode of Great Lives, this time on James Baldwin. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The innovation systems approach: an Austrian and Ostromian perspective - The Review of Austrian Economics The innovation systems (IS) approach—developed by Richard Nelson, Christopher Freeman and Bengt-Ake Lundvall, amongst others—has become perhaps the dominant approach in the academic literature for the...

This paper develops a Hayekian/Ostromian perspective on innovation systems theory. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great Lives - David Spiegelhalter on Frank Ramsey - BBC Sounds Statistician David Spiegelhalter champions the short, brilliant life of Frank Ramsey.

Terrific episode of Great Lives on the extraordinary Frank Ramsey. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I am always delightfully surprised to see a post from a reader of my book! Thanks Paul and all the readers - past, present, and future. I hope it inspires conversation about how Ostrom's ideas can be applied to today's challenges.

Some reading for today.

A beautifully written, finely observed novella. A delight to read.

Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity Mary Wollstonecraft was first and foremost a critic. Almost all of what she wrote took the form of critiques. She took exception to institutions, such as t

Interesting-looking article. academic.oup.com/cpe/advance-...

The General Theory of Employment Summary. I. Comments on the four discussions in the previous issue of points in the General Theory, 209. — II. Certain definite points on which the writer

Classic article by John Maynard Keynes: ’The General Theory of Employment.’ academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

Might it be useful to distinguish between ’efficiency’ and ’resilience’ here?

Make your day better by reading this superb paper by Ryan Hanley. It’s on a fascinating topic, is based on a careful and convincing argument, and is full of insight. Highly recommended. ’PRACTICING PPE: THE CASE OF ADAM SMITH’

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New purchase.

The Myth of the AI First Draft I write daily, often for hours at a time. I’m an author of fiction and nonfiction, and even when I’m not writing something for publication I fill notebooks with ideas and frequently ill…

"The purpose of writing isn’t just to demonstrate knowledge in the most expedient way. Writing is to explore knowledge, to connect and synthesise ideas, to create new knowledge, and to share."
An interesting analysis of pitfalls of drafting using genAI by @leonfurze.com leonfurze.com/2024/02/21/t...