Methodology and Philosophy

On Universities

Cowan, Robin, William Cowan and Patrick Llerena, "Running the Marathon” in Maureen McKelvey & Magnus Holmén, (eds.) European Universities Learning to Compete: From Social Institution to Knowledge Business, pp. 278-299, Edward Elgar. 2009.

Cowan, R. “Universities and the Knowledge Economy” in Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy, Brian Kahin and Dominique Foray (eds.) MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts 2006.

Philosophy and economics--methodology and ethics

Robin Cowan and Dominique Foray, “Counterfactual History and Evolutionary Economics”, MERIT Research Memorandum #2/97-012.

Robin Cowan and Dominique Foray, “Evolutionary Economics and the Counterfactual Threat: On the nature and role of counterfactual history as an empirical tool in economics”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics vol 12, pp. 539-562, 2002.

Robin Cowan and Mario Rizzo, “The Genetic-Causal Tradition and Modern Economic Theory”, Kyklos, vol 49(3), pp. 273-317, 1996.

Robin Cowan, “Causation and Genetic Causation in Economic Theory”, in Peter J. Boettke, ed., The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, pp. 63-71, 1994.

Robin Cowan and Mario Rizzo, eds., The Moral Status of Profits, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Robin Cowan and Mario Rizzo, “Fundamental Issues in the Justification of Profits” in R. Cowan and Mario J. Rizzo eds. The Moral Status of Profits, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 1-21, 1995.

Collaborators

Patrick Llerena, BETA, University of Strasbourg
pllerena@unistra.fr

William Cowan, University of Waterloo

Mario Rizzo, Economics Department, New York University.
rizzom@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu

Dominique Foray, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
dominique.foray@epfl.ch

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