Economics Made Fun in the Face of the Crisis: Program

Here is the provisional program of the Econ-Fun Symposium (10-11 December 2010, Rotterdam):

10.12.2010 Friday

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome
09:30 – 10:30 Diane Coyle (keynote): “Who’s laughing now at the dismal science?”

10:30 – 10:45 Break: Coffee etc.

10:45 – 11:30 Uskali Mäki: “On the philosophy of the new kiosk economics of everything”
11:30 – 12:15 N. Emrah Aydinonat: “The two [...]

Econ-Fun: Links

Interesting article: “Economics is Hard. Don’t Let Bloggers Tell You Otherwise” http://tinyurl.com/2vwd2qo
Seinfeld Economics! Avinash Dixit’s paper about nothing! http://www.princeton.edu/~dixitak/home/Elaine.pdf
Homo economicus – or more like Homer Simpson? http://www.dbresearch.com[...].pdf

Economics Made Fun: Reviews

Review Articles

Vromen, Jack (2009) “The booming economics-made-fun genre: more than having fun, but less than economics imperialism“, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2 (1), Summer 2009, pp. 70-99. Online: http://ejpe.org/pdf/2-1-art-5.pdf
Vromen, Jack (2008) “Economics and Philosophy: More than having fun and making fun“, 28.11.20008 Erasmus University Rotterdam, inaugral speech.

Book Reviews:

Reviews of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist [...]

Economics Made Fun Books

Here is a list of books that make economics fun (in chronological order):

1993

The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life by Steven E. Landsburg (1993)

1996

Hidden Order by David D. Friedman (1996)

2002

Naked Economics – Undressing the Dismal Science by Burton G. Malkiel (2002)

2004

Everlasting Light Bulbs: How Economics Illuminates the World by John Kay (2004)

2006

The Undercover Economist by [...]

Extended Deadline: 15 June 2010, Economics Made Fun Symposium

The deadline for abstracts for the Economics Made Fun Symposium is now 15 June 2010. More info at: http://www.eur.nl/fw/english/eipe/conferences/economics_made_fun/

Call for Papers: Economics made fun

Symposium: Economics made fun in the face of the economic crisis
10-11 December 2010
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Organized by
Jack Vromen (Erasmus University Rotterdam, vromen@fwb.eur.nl)
N. Emrah Aydinonat (Ankara University & Bogazici University, aydinonat@gmail.com)

Call for papers

Best-selling books such as Freakonomics and The Undercover Economist have paved the way to a flourishing economics-made-fun genre. The economics-made-fun genre first [...]

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