CategoriesPPE Research COVID-19 Rapid Response Seed Funds Provided By OVPRI The Office of the President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI) at Virginia Tech provides internal seed funds for projects that address COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic…
CategoriesPPE Research Gil Hersch Publishes in the History of Economic Thought Gil Hersch (PPE Postdoctoral Fellow) published an article on “The Need for Governmental Inefficiency in Plato’s Republic,” in The Journal of the History of Economic…
CategoriesPPE Research Gil Hersch Publishes on Well-Being Policy Gil Hersch (PPE Postdoctoral Fellow) published an article on “No Theory-Free Lunches in Well-Being Policy,” in The Philosophical Quarterly 70 (2020): 43-64. Here is an…
CategoriesPPE Research Thomas Rowe Publishes on Risk and Unfairness Thomas Rowe (PPE Postdoctoral Fellow) published an article on “Risk and the Unfairness of Some Being Better Off at the Expense of Others,” in the…
CategoriesPPE Research Michael Moehler Speaks on Diversity and the Social Contract Michael Moehler, Director of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, will give a talk on his most recent research on social contract theory and…
CategoriesPPE Research Thomas Rowe Discusses Egalitarianism and Uncertainty Thomas Rowe and Alex Voorhoeve’s article “Egalitarianism under Severe Uncertainty,” will be discussed on the PEA Soup Blog on May 15-16, 2019, with a critical…
CategoriesPPE Research Gil Hersch Presents at the Center for Humanities Gil Hersch, a postdoctoral fellow in the PPE Program, will give a lunch-time talk that is organized by the Center for Humanities. Dr. Hersch will…
CategoriesPPE Research Sudipta Sarangi Publishes on Ecological Endowments and Sex Ratios Sudipta Sarangi (Head of the Department of Economics), together with colleagues, recently published an article on ecological endowments and sex ratios, considering cultural norms especially…
CategoriesPPE Research Book Symposium on Michael Moehler’s Minimal Morality Jerry Gaus, Chad Van Schoelandt, and Dominick Cooper comment on Michael Moehler’s Minimal Morality: A Multilevel Social Contract Theory (Oxford University Press, 2018). Here is…
CategoriesPPE Research, PPE Research Fellowships Douglas Noonan Visits as PPE Research Fellow During the spring semester 2019, Professor Douglas Noonan will be a visiting research scholar in the Program of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Virginia Tech….
