Hume’s contribution to modern economics is normally thought of in terms of his early statement of the quantity theory of money, and to a lesser extent his views on trade and development. At a methodological level the influence from his empiricism is commonly traced to the development of econometrics. But if we explore his philosophy more fully, we find a much richer set of ideas which can illum...

Mark Blaug used to begin his history of economics course with an old Greek proverb: “the fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing”. He would then say that one could characterise most thinkers in the history of economic thought as either a fox or a hedgehog. As a student, I found that this character-driven view illuminated past economists’ theories in a fresh way and br...

To increase college access and reduce the burden of student loan debt, the US government has developed several new tuition and student loan policies. These include the newly proposed free community college plan and the recently enacted Pay As You Earn plan that makes student loan repayments contingent on earnings. I develop and estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of the decisions individuals ma...

Despite its historical neglect, intuition is currently a scholarly focus in such a broad range of behavioural and social sciences, as psychology, cognitive science, economics, education, medicine, management, and so forth. Moreover, intuition is expected to be a ‘fundamental bridging construct’ (Hodgkinson et al., 2008) to unify inquiries in these areas. Experimental philosophy – socio-experime...

John Tribe University of Surrey, UK John Tribe is Professor of Tourism at the University of Surrey (Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom. Email ). He has authored books on philosophy, strategy, economics, education, research and environmental management and his research concentrates on epistemology, education, and sustainability. He is Editor-in-Chief of Annals and Co-Chair o...

Christopher Hamilton graduated with a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee in May 2013. He majored in religious studies, philosophy, and history, and minored in economics. Chris enjoys human beings, animals, the Northwoods, bonfires, beer, tobacco, Terrance Malick films, and underground anarchist punk rock shows. He waits for the dawn of that day "when the dryness and the rain fina...

That our mental lives are not transparent to us is one of the few Freudian doctrines that has been robustly confirmed by subsequent psychological research. Nevertheless, much work in the philosophy of language, as well as formal work in economics and computer science, assumes various “iteration principles” that can seem to conflict with this psychological truism. By “iteration principles” I hav...