John Davis
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Milwaukee WI United States of America (414) 288-5438 john.davis@marquette.edu Curriculum Vitae ePublicationsProfessor of Economics
John B. Davis is Professor of Economics at Marquette University and Professor and Chair of History and Philosophy of Economics at University of Amsterdam. He is author of Keynes’s Philosophical Development (Cambridge, 1994), The Theory of the Individual in Economics (Routledge, 2003), Individuals and Identity in Economics (Cambridge, 2011), and co-author with Marcel Boumans of Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science (Palgrave, 2010. He has been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, Cambridge University, Erasmus University, and Duke University. He is a former editor of the Review of Social Economy, and currently co-editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology and editor of the Routledge book series Advances in Social Economics. He is a past president or chair of the History of Economics Society, the International Network for Economic Method, and the Association for Social Economics, and is vice-president of the European Society for the History of Economics. He has taught two dozen different courses.
Education
- PhD, MA, Economics, 1985, Michigan State University
- PhD, MA, BA, Philosophy, 1983, 1974, 1969, University of Illinois, Urbana
- MS, Economics, 1978, University of Illinois, Urbana
Professional Interests
Philosophy and Methodology of Economics, History of Economics, Health Economics, International Economics, Ethics and Economics.
Amsterdam History and Methodology Group
Awards, Honors, & Certifications
- Thomas F. Divine Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Social Economics, 2007
- Sabbatical Fellowship Award, Marquette University, 2007-2008
- Way Klingler Humanities Fellowship, Marquette University, 2006
- Sigma Xi, 2006 Distinguished Researcher Award, Marquette University chapter
- Myrdal Book Prize, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, 2004
- Miles Research Fellow, Marquette University, 2004-10
- Ludwig Mai Award, Association for Social Economics, 2000
Selected Publications
“The Capabilities Conception of the Individual,” Review of Social Economy, vol. 67 (December 2009): 413-429.
“The turn in recent economics and return of orthodoxy,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 32 (May 2008): 349-366.