CategoriesPPE News, PPE Research PPE Research Group Explores Other-Regarding Preferences Under Ambiguity Policymakers often have to make significant decisions regarding issues like health care and national security under severe uncertainty about how their decisions will affect specific…
CategoriesPPE News, PPE Research Gil Hersch Joins the Kellogg Center PPE Core Faculty The Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics is pleased to welcome Gil Hersch as a PPE Core Faculty member and Assistant Professor of Philosophy….
CategoriesPPE News, PPE Research Sudipta Sarangi Publishes in Roanoke Times Professor Sudipta Sarangi, an Affiliate and Stakeholder of the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, has published an article about the pandemic in the…
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 News PPE Undergraduate Student Ambassadorships 2020-2021 Each academic year, the PPE Program selects several undergraduate students to serve as ambassadors for the program. The primary tasks of the ambassadors are to…
CategoriesPPE News Student Discussion on Economics and a Free People On February 29, 2020, the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics will co-organize a daylong discussion colloquium for selected undergraduate students on the topic “Economics…
CategoriesPPE Undergraduate Club PPE Club Interest Meeting The PPE Club at Virginia Tech will organize an Interest Meeting on February 4, 2020, from 6-7pm in the Architecture Annex, Room 109. The club…
CategoriesPPE Research Speaker Series Erik Kimbrough Speaks on Norms and Ideology Erik Kimbrough from Chapman University will give a talk on the topic “How Norms Shape Ideology.” The talk will take place on February 5, 2020,…
