Malte Dold

Deadline approaching!

New article with @timkriegerfr.bsky.social on the “deficit–populism double bind”. We argue for a contemporary ordoliberal reform agenda to ease fiscal pressure, curb populism, and revive positive-sum politics in liberal democracies.

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🎓 Call for applications – 4th Lake Como INEM Summer School in Philosophy of Economics, Villa del Grumello (Como), 7–12 June 2026. Open to PhD students, young scholars & advanced MA students. Deadline 31 Jan 2026. More information: phileco4.lakecomoschool.org

From heuristics and biases to agency - Mind & Society Mind & Society - Behavioural economics in the heuristics-and-biases tradition of Kahneman and Tversky is best known for explaining how people actually make decisions. However, less attention...

Happy that my article w Ivan Mitrouchev "From heuristics and biases to agency” is out in Mind & Society. We trace how behavioral economics’ normative benchmarks evolved and argue for more agency-centered, co-created standards in behavioral public policy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

International Network for Economic Method | LinkedIn International Network for Economic Method | 3 followers on LinkedIn. A global network for the philosophy and methodology of economics. | The International Network for Economic Method (INEM) seeks to p...

INEM has a LinkedIn Page now. Please consider following it if you want to connect with scholars exploring the philosophy and methodology of economics worldwide www.linkedin.com/company/inte...

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought Volume 32, Issue 4 of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

You might have missed great book reviews in the latest issues of EJHET.
In 32(4), Tribe, Le Chapelain, Marcuzzo, @ivan-moscati.bsky.social @massaf.bsky.social reviewed books by Drakopoulos & Katselidis, Mosca, Garegnani, Zappia, and @vhalsmayer.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

(PDF) How to Address the Deficit-Populism Double Bind? A Contemporary Ordoliberal Perspective PDF | This article examines the “deficit–populism double bind” faced by liberal democracies. Mounting deficits restrict governments’ ability to act,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

New working paper (with @timkriegerfr.bsky.social): "How to Address the Deficit-Populism Double Bind? A Contemporary Ordoliberal Perspective" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Save the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026.

Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.

Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.

More information forthcoming.

@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me

NYU IBPPW | IBPPA

This coming April, Mario Rizzo and I will host a workshop at NYU:

"Rethinking Behavioral Economics and Policy: Current Challenges and New Directions"

📍 New York University
📅 April 9–10, 2026

More information about the workshop and on how to submit abstracts: www.ibppa.org/nyu-ibppw

Agency, adaptation, and discussion in liberal societies: Lessons from Frank H. Knight - Constitutional Political Economy This article examines some of the distinct features of Frank H. Knight’s liberalism. While acknowledging the necessity of markets and competition, Knight critiques their potential to shape people’s pr...

New article (OA!) published in Constitutional Political Economy: I explore Frank Knight’s idea of freedom as self-constitution, the risks of adaptation, and the role of public discussion in liberal societies.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Algorithms and Autonomy: Regulating Recommender Systems Discover how recommender systems impact autonomy and choices online, and explore potential regulatory solutions to protect user preferences.

New blog post alert! I argue that recommender systems simplify choices and surface personalized content but also leverage behavioral biases in ways that undermine users’ autonomy and thus call for (nuanced) public policies bppblog.com/2025/09/02/a...

Games help us understand life, @annieduke.com tells @jennygrankin.bsky.social—the best games involve the two things that characterize life and provide the context for the decisions we make—skill, and luck:

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Hayekian psychological economics: expectations and learning This article argues that Friedrich Hayek’s theoretical psychology provides original insights for the discussion of a series of phenomena in economics. By discussing Hayek’s framework, the limitatio...

It’s finally out! Our paper on Hayekian Psychological Economics is published in JEM. We argue that Hayek’s theoretical psychology offers valuable insights into learning processes, often overlooked by the heuristics-and-biases tradition in behavioral economics www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EUZIF...

Might be of interest to @lklades.bsky.social @sanchayanbanerj.bsky.social @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social
@judithfavereau.bsky.social @becklukas.bsky.social
@silviamil.bsky.social @alexhortal.bsky.social

(PDF) Personalized Nudging and the Optimality Problem PDF | Personalized nudging has been proposed to address the 'one-size-fits-all' limitation of traditional nudge and account for heterogeneity in... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

New working paper on a 'hot' topic in @bppjournal.bsky.social: "Personalized Nudging and the Optimality Problem"
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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@rajivsethi.bsky.social @sanchayanbanerj.bsky.social @nyayacarya.bsky.social @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social @lklades.bsky.social @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social @judithfavereau.bsky.social @becklukas.bsky.social @silviamil.bsky.social @alexhortal.bsky.social @cherfeld.bsky.social @erikangner.com

This issue marks the launch of a new section in @bppjournal.bsky.social: "Political Economy of Behavioral Public Policy," edited by yours truly. The aim is to deepen reflection on BPP’s normative and methodological foundations, with particular attention to the history of thought

The complete issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just published the introductory essay to an issue (OA! 😀) of @bppjournal.bsky.social I've been co-editing in honor of Mario Rizzo; with articles by Adam Oliver, Gerd Gigerenzer, Shaun Hargreaves Heap, George Loewenstein, Nick Chater, and Cass Sunstein, among others www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

AEP Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods

We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-...

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-...

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

AI can reinforce biases, amplify overconfidence, and mislead. It can also enhance human reasoning, improve efficiency, and even help us make better decisions.

The difference is how we engage with it, argues Matt Grawitch:

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Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? (Gift Article) And how exactly can we tell whether America has crossed the line?

Essential democracy reading: How will we know when we have lost our democracy? By Steven Levitsky, @lucanway.bsky.social, and @dziblatt.bsky.social. Gift link ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

(PDF) A Brief History of Normativity in Behavioural Economics PDF | Behavioural economics is mostly known as a field at the intersection of psychology and economics that studies how people actually make decisions.... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

New working paper: A BRIEF HISTORY OF NORMATIVITY IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS. We discuss different interpretations of “irrational” behavior and how these interpretations led to different policy ideas over the last few decades www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Thanks @sanchayanbanerj.bsky.social for putting this special issue together!

New article out! @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social and I explore different notions of autonomy in behavioral public policy, highlighting the role of public deliberation in fostering autonomy as self-constitution—the capacity to reflect critically on one's goals, aspirations, and identity rdcu.be/ee730

Happy and proud to announce that the 17th History of Recent Economics Conference will happen at Radboud University, 23-24 October 2025!
hisreco.wordpress.com/2023/06/21/c...

The Lion Hath Roared There’s one important piece of information that should be kept in mind as we think about what lies ahead for American higher education.

On the Columbia capitulation
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Congrats, buddy! That's fantastic news and so well-deserved. Let's connect soon and hash out a plan for collabs 🤠

Kahneman’s tryst with reasonableness: a tease unfulfilled?
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Why Did It Take a Fire for the World to Learn of Altadena’s Black Arts Legacy? As Frieze Los Angeles shines a spotlight on art in the city, one community, long facing institutional apathy, calls for marking its memories in the public mind.

Solomon Salim Moore, academic curator, at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, talks in @nytimes.com
about growing up in Altadena. Bobby Bradford, a former lecturer in music at Pomona, is also mentioned in the story.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/a...