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Scott Scheall
Biography:
Scott Scheall is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Science in Arizona State University’s College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. He has published extensively on topics related to the history and philosophy of the Austrian School of economics. Scott is the author of F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics (Routledge, 2020). He is co-editor of Research in the History of Ecvonomic Thought and Methodology, as well as co-host and producer of Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast.
Education:
Ph.D. Philosophy, Arizona State University 2012
Research Interests:
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Social and Political Philosophy
History and Philosophy of Social Science, esp. Economics
Political Economy
AREAS OF COMPETENCE:
Epistemology
History of Philosophy (Modern and 20th-Century Analytic)
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Natural Science
Value Theory
Publications:
BOOKS:
F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics (2020 - Routledge)
Book Review Symposia:
Reason Papers (Volume 41, Number 2, Summer 2020)
Edited by Shawn Klein, with contributions from Aeon Skoble, Timothy Sandefur, and Forrest Nabors, and a response by the author
Cosmos + Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization (Volume 9, Issue 3+4, 2021)
Edited by William Butos, with contributions from Peter Boettke, Erwin Dekker, Roger Koppl, Thomas McQuade, and Eric Schliesser, and a response by the author
https://cosmosandtaxis.org/ct-934/
Other Confirmed Reviews
- Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (Volume 30, Issue 3, July 2020) - Paul Dragos Aligicia
- Studia Ekonomiczne-Prawno [Studies in Law and Economics (Poland)] (Fall 2020) - J. Patrick Higgin
- History of Economic Ideas (Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 2020) - Jonas Lipski
- European Journal for the History of Economic Thought (Forthcoming in print 2021; Published online June 2021) - Francesco Di Iorio
- Public Choice (Forthcoming in print 2021; Published online June 2021) - Vlad Tarko
Other Media
- “On Liberal Transition Problems: Popper, Lippmann, and Scheall's Hayekian Political Epistemology” - Eric Schliesser, Digressions and Impressions, October 21, 2020: https://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.com/digressionsimpressions/2020/10/on-the-liberal-transition-problem-scheall-hayekian-political-epistemology-i.html
- “The Epistemic Burden of Politics” - Ethan Yang, American Institute for Economic Research, July 20, 2020: https://www.aier.org/article/the-epistemic-burden-of-politics/
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES:
- “A Case Study in the Problem of Policymaker Ignorance: Political Responses to COVID-19” (Lead author with Parker Crutchfield)
Cosmos + Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization – 2021, Volume 9, Issue 5-6, pp. 18-28
- “The Priority of the Epistemic” (Lead author with Parker Crutchfield)
Episteme – Published online February 2020, forthcoming in print
- “Karl Menger’s Unfinished Biography of His Father: New Insights into Carl Menger’s Life Through 1889” (Second author with Reinhard Schumacher)
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology – 2020, Volume 38B
- “Epistemic Burdens and the Incentives of Surrogate Decision-makers” (Second author with Parker Crutchfield)
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy – 2019, Volume 22, pp. 613–621
- “Ignorance and the Incentive Structure confronting Policymakers”
Cosmos + Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization – 2019, Volume 7, Issue 1-2, pp. 39-51
- “On the Method Appropriate to Hayek Studies”
Œconomia - History / Methodology / Philosophy – 2019, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 29-35
- “Social and Scientific Disorder as Epistemic Phenomena, or The Consequences of Government Dietary Guidelines” (Lead author with William N. Butos and Thomas J. McQuade)
Journal of Institutional Economics – 2019, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 431-447
- “Karl Menger as Son of Carl Menger” (Lead author with Reinhard Schumacher)
History of Political Economy – 2018, Volume 50, Number 4, pp. 649-678
- “What is Extreme about Mises’ Extreme Apriorism?”
Journal of Economic Methodology – 2017, Volume 24, Issue 3, pp. 226-249
- “A Brief Note Concerning Hayek’s Non-Standard Conception of Knowledge”
Review of Austrian Economics – 2016, Volume 29, Issue 2, pp. 205-210
- “A Hayekian Explanation of Hayek’s ‘Epistemic Turn’”
Economic Thought – 2015, Volume 4, No 2, pp. 32-47
- “Slaves of the Defunct: The Epistemic Intractability of the Hayek-Keynes Debate”
Journal of Economic Methodology – 2015, Volume 22, Issue 2, pp. 215-234
- “Lesser Degrees of Explanation: Further Implications of F.A. Hayek’s Methodology of Sciences of Complex Phenomena”
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics – 2015, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 42-60
- “Hayek’s Epistemic Theory of Industrial Fluctuations”
History of Economic Ideas – 2015, Volume XXIII, Issue 1, pp. 101-122
- “Hayek the Apriorist?”
Journal of the History of Economic Thought – 2015, Volume 37, Issue 1, pp. 87-110
- “Later Wittgenstein and the Problem of Easy Knowledge”
Philosophical Investigations – 2011, Volume 34, Issue 3, pp. 268-286
PEER-REVIEWED OPEN-PEER COMMENTARIES:
- “Epistemic Burdens, Moral Intimacy, and Surrogate Decision-making” (Second author with Parker Crutchfield)
American Journal of Bioethics – 2020, Volume 20, Issue 2, pp. 59-61
INVITED PUBLICATIONS:
- “Spontaneous Order as a Philosophical Precept”
Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money, Joseph J. Tinguely, Editor; Forthcoming 2023, Palgrave
- “Complexity, Policymaking, and The Austrian Denial of Macroeconomics”
Handbook of Macroeconomic Methodology, Bert Tieben, Victoria Chick, and Jesper Jespersen, Editors; Forthcoming 2023, Routledge
- “Summary of ‘Social and Scientific Disorder as Epistemic Phenomena, or The Consequences of Government Dietary Guidelines’” (Lead author with William N. Butos and Thomas J. McQuade)
JOIE Blog: The Official Blog of the Journal of Institutional Economics.
- “F.A. Hayek, 1899-1992”
Great Economic Thinkers, Jonathan Conlin, Editor; 2018, Reaktion Books (UK) / University of Chicago Press (U.S.)
BOOK REVIEWS:
- “Review of Peter J. Boettke’s F.A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy, and Social Philosophy”
History of Political Economy – 2019, Volume 51, Issue 5, pp. 970-973
- “Review of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Volume 14: The Sensory Order and Other Writings on the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology”
Journal of the History of Economic Thought – 2019, Volume 41, Issue 1, pp. 145-149
- “Faith as Political Epistemology: A Review of Thomas C. Leonard’s Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era”
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology – 2017, Volume 35B, pp. 375-381
- “Review of Alexander Linsbichler’s Was Ludwig von Mises a Conventionalist? A New Analysis of the Epistemology of the Austrian School of Economics”
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics – 2017, Volume 10, Number 2, pp. 110-115
- “Review of James A. Harris’ Hume: An Intellectual Biography”
Review of Political Economy – 2017, Volume 29, Issue 3, pp. 480-484
- “Review of Hayek and Behavioral Economics”
Journal of the History of Economic Thought – 2015, Volume 37, Issue 2, pp. 334-337
RESPONSES TO BOOK REVEIW SYMPOSIA:
- “Author’s Reply: Governed by Ignorance”
Reason Papers – Published online October 21, 2020
- “Symposium Prologue” and “Responses”
Cosmos + Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization – (Forthcoming 2021, Volume 9, Issue 3+4)
OTHER MEDIA APPEARANCES
- “Science is More Complex Than Advertised”
American Institute for Economic Research, April 8, 2021
https://www.aier.org/article/science-is-more-complex-than-advertised/
- “There Are No Experts (About the Things for Which We Really Need Experts)” (Lead author with Parker Crutchfield)
American Institute for Economic Research, February 4, 2021
https://www.aier.org/article/there-are-no-experts-on-that-for-which-we-really-need-experts/
- Episode 84: “What Is the Fundamental Problem of Political Life?”
The Curious Task Podcast, March 10, 2021
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Presentations:
“The Mengers versus Mises on Matters Methodological”
Conference on Carl Menger: One Century Later, Originalities and Modernities
Nice, France
November 24-26, 2021
“The Mengers versus Mises on Matters Methodological”
Southern Economic Association 91st Annual Meeting
Houston, Texas
November 20-22, 2021
“The Mengers versus Mises on Matters Methodological”
International Network for Economic Method 15th Biennial Conference
Tempe, Arizona
November 12-14, 2021
“’Liberalism and / or Socialism?’ The Wrong Question?”
Conference on Liberalism and / or Socialism? Tensions, Exchanges, and Convergences from the 19th Century to Today
Lorraine, France
October 21-22, 2021
“Ignorance and Moral Judgments” (Second author with Parker Crutchfield)
43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Workshop on "Engineering and Reverse-Engineering Morality”
Online Virtual Conference
July 26, 2021
"The Problem of Policymaker Ignorance"
NOUS: Netzwerk für Ordnungsökonomik und Sozialphilosophie
NOUS Spotlight Series
Online Virtual Presentation
July 27, 2021
“Hume’s Joke: Ignorance and Moral Judgments” (Lead author with Parker Crutchfield, Mark Rzeszutek, Cristal Cardoso Sao Mateus, and Hayley Brown)
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Online Virtual Conference
June 30, 2021
“Ignorance and Moral Judgments about the Pandemic” (Second author with Parker Crutchfield)
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Online Virtual Conference
June 29, 2021
“History of Economics Diversity Caucus Conference” (Lead Organizer)
History of Economics Diversity Caucus
Online / Virtual Conference
May 24-26, 2021
“Author Meets Critics: F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics”
Panel: Peter Boettke, George Mason University; Erwin Dekker, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Roger Koppl, Syracuse University
Southern Economic Association 90th Annual Meeting
Online / Virtual Conference
November 20, 2020
“Ignorance, Not Incentives: The First Problem of Politics and Political Inquiry”
Public Choice Society 57th Annual Meetings
Newport Beach, CA, USA
March 14, 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID pandemic)
“Growing Tolerance: Karl Menger and the Development of Logical Tolerance in an Intolerant Age”
Center for the History of Political Economy
Duke University
Durham, NC
February 7, 2020
F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics (Precis)
Center for the Study of Economic Liberty PPE Research Workshop
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Tempe, AZ
November 22, 2019
“Liberalism and the Problem of Policymaker Ignorance”
History of Economics Society 46th Annual Conference
Columbia University
New York, New York, USA
June 22, 2019
“Policymaker Ignorance: The Fundamental Problem of Politics and Political Inquiry”
Poly Social Science Colloquium Series
Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus
Mesa, AZ
April 9, 2019
“Hayek and Keynes on Economic Liberty” (Host with Speakers Bruce Caldwell and Brad Bateman)
Center for the Study of Economic Liberty
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Tempe, AZ
March 14, 2019
“Ignorance and the Incentive Structure confronting Policymakers”
Center for the Study of Economic Liberty PPE Research Workshop
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Tempe, AZ
January 14, 2019
“Ignorance and the Incentive Structure confronting Policymakers”
Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes
New York University
New York, NY
December 10, 2018
“The MacLean Controversy A Year Later” (Session Organizer with Andrew Farrant)
History of Economics Society 45th Annual Conference
Loyola University
Chicago, Illinois, USA
June 17, 2018
“Contextualizing F.A. Hayek as Theoretical Psychologist and Naturalistic Epistemologist”
History of Economics Society 45th Annual Conference
Loyola University
Chicago, Illinois, USA
June 15, 2018
“Bruce Caldwell’s Beyond Positivism After 35 Years” (Session Chair and Organizer)
History of Economics Society 44th Annual Conference
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 22, 2017
“Hayek, not Mises, at the Epistemological (Hard) Core of the Austrian School”
History of Economics Society 44th Annual Conference
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 21, 2017
“Social Disorder as Epistemic Phenomena: The Political Economy and Epistemology of Government Dietary Guidelines” (with William N. Butos and Thomas J. McQuade)
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Society 1st Annual Meeting
New Orleans, LA
March 16-19, 2017
“Insights from the History of Austrian Economics for Growth and Development”
Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia (ANPEC – Brazilian Economic Association) 44th National Meeting of Economists
History of Economics Society / ANPEC Joint Panel Session on “History of Economic Thought and Methodology”
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
December 14, 2016
“Karl Menger as Son of Carl Menger” (with Reinhard Schumacher)
Southern Economic Association 86th Annual Meeting
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics Panel Session on “Themes and Personalities in Early Austrian Economics”
Washington, D.C.
November 19, 2016
“The Life of Carl Menger: New Insights into the Biography of the Father of Austrian Economics” (with Reinhard Schumacher)
Southern Economic Association 86th Annual Meeting
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics Panel Session on “Themes and Personalities in Early Austrian Economics”
Washington, D.C.
November 19, 2016
“Social Disorder as Epistemic Phenomena: The Political Economy and Epistemology of Government Dietary Guidelines” (with William N. Butos and Thomas J. McQuade)
Southern Economic Association 86th Annual Meeting
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics Panel Session on “The Political Economy of Science”
Washington, D.C.
November 21, 2016
“What is Extreme about Mises’ Extreme Apriorism?”
Southern Economic Association 86th Annual Meeting
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics Panel Session on “Austrian Economics and Public Choice: History and Methodology”
Washington, D.C.
November 21, 2016
“The Life of Carl Menger: New Insights into the Biography of the Father of Austrian Economics” (with Reinhard Schumacher)
History of Economics Society 43rd Annual Conference
Duke University
Durham, NC
June 20, 2016
“Karl Menger’s Diaries, 1918-1922” (with Reinhard Schumacher)
History of Economics Society 43rd Annual Conference
Duke University
Durham, NC
June 19, 2016
“What Did Mathematics Do to Economic Explanation? Incommensurability in the Böhm-Bawerk/Fisher Controversy Over Simultaneous Equations” (with Avi J. Cohen)
History of Economics Society 43rd Annual Conference
Duke University
Durham, NC
June 18, 2016
Session on “How to Get Published in the History of Economic Thought: Advice from Journal Editors to Early-Career Scholars”
History of Economics Society 43rd Annual Conference
Duke University
Durham, NC
June 18, 2016
“Kinds of Scientific Rationalism: The Case for Methodological Liberalism”
Southern Economic Association 85th Annual Meeting
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics Panel Session on “The Economics and Epistemics of Science”
New Orleans, LA
November 22, 2015
“Karl Menger’s Diaries, 1918-1922”
Center for the History of Political Economy
Duke University
Durham, NC
October 2, 2015
“Kinds of Scientific Rationalism: The Case for Methodological Liberalism”
History of Economics Society 42nd Annual Conference
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
June 27, 2015
F.A. Hayek, Economics, and the Epistemology of Politics
Manuscript Workshop
F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Arlington, VA
June 18-19, 2015
“Kinds of Scientific Rationalism: The Case for Methodological Liberalism”
15th Summer Institute for the History of Economic Thought
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
June 5, 2015
“Kinds of Scientific Rationalism: The Case for Methodological Liberalism”
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Workshop
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
April 9, 2015
“Kinds of Scientific Rationalism: The Case for Methodological Liberalism”
Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes
New York University
New York, NY
October 27, 2014
Politics as a Knowledge Problem: The Epistemic Burden of Effective Policymaking (Precis)
Center for the History of Political Economy
Duke University
Durham, NC
October 10, 2014
“A Hayekian Explanation of Hayek’s ‘Epistemic Turn’”
History of Economics Society 41st Annual Conference, Young Scholars Award Session
Université du Québec à Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 23, 2014
“Economics and Ignorance: Hayek’s Epistemic Theory of Industrial Fluctuations”
Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes
New York University
New York, NY
October 7, 2013
“Economics and Ignorance: Hayek’s Epistemic Theory of Industrial Fluctuations”
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Workshop
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
October 3, 2013
“Economics and Ignorance: Hayek’s Epistemic Theory of Industrial Fluctuations”
Center for the History of Political Economy
Duke University
Durham, NC
September 27, 2013
“Slaves of the Defunct: The Epistemic Intractability of the Hayek-Keynes Debate”
Austrian Economics Forum
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
September 13, 2013
“Hayek the Apriorist?”
History of Economics Society 40th Annual Conference
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
June 23, 2013
“A Hayekian Philosophy of Sports” – Commentary on Tara A. Smith’s “What Are We Cheering? Sport and the Value of Valuing”
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting
Washington, D.C.
December 28, 2011
“Predictive Success in Economic Science”
Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquium Series
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Tempe, AZ
December 4, 2009
“Ontological Inquiry and the Presupposition of Pluralism”
Southwest Graduate Conference in Philosophy
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Tempe, AZ
March 2, 2008
“The Limits of Causal Explanation in Economics”
Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquium Series
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Tempe, AZ
November 3, 2007
“Anti-Compositionism: Nihilism, Gunk, and Temporal Parts”
Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
March 30, 2007
“Mistaking Identities” – Commentary on Nathan Placencia’s “Discovering Identities” Southwest Graduate Conference in Philosophy
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Tempe, AZ
March 3, 2007
“Anti-Compositionism: Nihilism, Gunk, and Temporal Parts”
Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquium Series
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Tempe, AZ
November 4, 2006
Honors / Awards:
May 2021 - CISA Summer Research Award, Arizona State University, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts
May 2020 - CISA Summer Research Award, Arizona State University, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts
May 2019 - CISA Summer Research Award, Arizona State University, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts
May 2018 - Service Impact Award, Arizona State University, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Faculty of Social Science
June 2017 - Hoover Library & Archives Workshop on Political Economy, Hoover Instituion, Stanford University
June 2015 - Institute for Humane Studies, Hayek Fund for Scholars, Conference Travel and Fees
June 2015 - 15th Summer Institute for the History of Economic Thought, University of Richmond
June 2014 - Young Scholar Award, History of Economics Society
Summer 2014 - Book Fellowship, George Mason University, F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center
Summer 2014 - Archivist Intern, Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy, David M. Rubinstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Karl Menger Papers Collection
June 2013 - National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the History of Political Economy, Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy
June 2013 - 14th Summer Institute for the History of Economic Thought, University of Richmond
June 2012 - Summer Institute on the History of Economic Thought, Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy
May 2007 - Graduate Student Award, Arizona State University, Department of Philosophy
March 2007 - Best Graduate Student Paper (“Anti-Compositionism: Nihilism, Gunk, and Temporal Parts”), Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference, University of Utah
Editorships:
2014 - Present: Co-editor, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Professional Associations:
Cognitive Science Society, 2021 – Present
NOUS: Netzwerk für Ordnungsökonomik und Sozialphilosophie (Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy), 2017 – Present
The Hume Society, 2017 – Present
Southern Economic Association, 2015 – Present
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, 2014 – Present
History of Economics Society, 2013 – Present (Executive Committee Member, 2018 – 2019)
International Network for Economic Method, 2013 – Present
Philosophy of Science Association, 2008 – 2021
American Philosophical Association, 2006 – Present
Graduate Faculties / Mentoring History:
Director of Graduate Studies - Integrative Social Sciences M.S. Program, Arizona State University, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, January 2017 – November 2020
Thesis / Dissertation Committee Participation:
- Dylan Frye – M.S. Applied Project Committee Co-chair, Arizona State University
Title TBD (Expected Completion Date May 2022)
- Roy Tatem – M.S. Thesis Committee Member, Arizona State University
“Social Work Policing: An Embedded Autonomous Model” (2021)
- Alexander Linsbichler – PhD Dissertation Committee External Reviewer, University of Vienna
“Otto Neurath and Ludwig von Mises: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in Viennese Late Enlightenment” (2020)
- Rashed Alshamsi – M.S. Applied Project Committee Co-chair, Arizona State University
“Integrative Social Science and Abu Dhabi’s Oil Industry” (2020)
- Emily Henry – M.S. Applied Project Committee Member, Arizona State University
“The Collaboration of Anti-Human Trafficking Organizations in the State of Arizona” (2020)
- Julie Simundson – M.S. Thesis Committee Co-chair, Arizona State University
“Education and the Costs Associated with Death” (2020)
- Cameron Eskandari – Senior Thesis Committee Member, Arizona State University
“The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle” (2011)
- Diego DeNicola – Senior Thesis Committee Member, Arizona State University
“The Morality of Markets” (2010)
Work History:
OTHER ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE:
June 2008 – July 2010: Undergraduate Student Advisor, Arizona State University, Department of Philosophy, Tempe, AZ
January 2003 – September 2005: University Endowment Administrator, Arizona State University Foundation, Tempe, AZ
Service:
March 2021 – Present
Member, Editorial Board, Cosmos + Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization
January 2021 – Present
Member, Curriculum Assessment Committee, Faculty of Social Science, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University
October 2020 – Present
Member, Local Organizing Committee, 15th INEM Conference 2021, Tempe, AZ
August 2020 – Present
Lead Organizer, History of Economics Diversity Caucus, Conference Organizing Committee
October 2018 – Present
Faculty Advisor, Bridge ASU, Arizona State University
August 2018 – November 2020
Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Social Science, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University
June 2018 – May 2019
Member , Executive Committee, History of Economics Society
February 2018 – February 2019
Chairperson, FMR (Funding, Marketing, and Recruiting) Working Group, Faculty of Social Science, College of Integrative Science and Arts, Arizona State University
January 2018
Member, Student Grievance Committee (ad hoc), College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University
December 2017 – Present
Co-Host, Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast
August 2017 – September 2019
Chairperson, New Initiatives Fund Committee, History of Economics Society
May 2017
Workshop Designer and Presenter, Promotion Workshop for Non-Tenure Eligible Faculty, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University
March 2017
Member, Student Grievance Committee (ad hoc), College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University
February 2017 – July 2018
Member, Sexual Assault Prevention Faculty Advisory Council, Arizona State University
January 2017 – July 2018
Interim Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Social Science, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University
August 2016 – July 2018
Member, Curriculum Committee, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University
August 2016 – July 2018
Chairperson, Personnel Committee for Non-Tenure-Eligible Faculty, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University
August 2016 – Present
Member, Hiring Committee, Faculty of Social Science, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University
June 2015 – April 2016
Member, Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Prize Selection Committee, History of Economics Society
March 2014 – Present
Co-Editor (with Luca Fiorito and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak), Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
August 2011 – May 2013
Member, Curriculum Committee, College of Letters and Sciences, Arizona State University
August 2008 – May 2012
Faculty Committee Liaison, Philosophy Ph.D. Program, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
June 2008 – July 2010
Faculty Advisor, Arizona State Undergraduate Philosophy Club, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
June 2008 – July 2010
Faculty Advisor, Young Americans for Liberty, Arizona State University
Referee for:
American Journal of Political Science
Cosmos + Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization
EconomiA
Economic Thought
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics
European Journal of Law and Economics
History of Political Economy
Journal of Contextual Economics
Journal of Economic Methodology
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice
Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science
Œconomia – History / Methodology / Philosophy
Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel
Philosophical Papers and Reviews
Philosophy of Social Science
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Review of Austrian Economics
Review of Social Economy
Social Theory and Practice
Synthese
Expertise Areas: