Malte Dold
Worldly economist @pomonacollege.bsky.social; working on topics at the intersection of economics, ethics, and psychology; PPE and history of thought aficionado 🦜
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- 🎓 Call for applications – 4th Lake Como INEM Summer School in Philosophy of Economics, Villa del Grumello (Como), 7–12 June 2026. Open to PhD students, young scholars & advanced MA students. Deadline 31 Jan 2026. More information: phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
- New article with @timkriegerfr.bsky.social on the “deficit–populism double bind”. We argue for a contemporary ordoliberal reform agenda to ease fiscal pressure, curb populism, and revive positive-sum politics in liberal democracies. lnkd.in/eRC28ytN
- 🎓 Call for applications – 4th Lake Como INEM Summer School in Philosophy of Economics, Villa del Grumello (Como), 7–12 June 2026. Open to PhD students, young scholars & advanced MA students. Deadline 31 Jan 2026. More information: phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
- Happy that my article w Ivan Mitrouchev "From heuristics and biases to agency” is out in Mind & Society. We trace how behavioral economics’ normative benchmarks evolved and argue for more agency-centered, co-created standards in behavioral public policy link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- INEM has a LinkedIn Page now. Please consider following it if you want to connect with scholars exploring the philosophy and methodology of economics worldwide www.linkedin.com/company/inte...
- Reposted by Malte DoldYou might have missed great book reviews in the latest issues of EJHET. In 32(4), Tribe, Le Chapelain, Marcuzzo, @ivan-moscati.bsky.social @massaf.bsky.social reviewed books by Drakopoulos & Katselidis, Mosca, Garegnani, Zappia, and @vhalsmayer.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...
- New working paper (with @timkriegerfr.bsky.social): "How to Address the Deficit-Populism Double Bind? A Contemporary Ordoliberal Perspective" www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- Reposted by Malte DoldSave the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026. Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics. Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy. Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan. More information forthcoming. @catemar.bsky.social @rseri.me
- This coming April, Mario Rizzo and I will host a workshop at NYU: "Rethinking Behavioral Economics and Policy: Current Challenges and New Directions" 📍 New York University 📅 April 9–10, 2026 More information about the workshop and on how to submit abstracts: www.ibppa.org/nyu-ibppw
- New article (OA!) published in Constitutional Political Economy: I explore Frank Knight’s idea of freedom as self-constitution, the risks of adaptation, and the role of public discussion in liberal societies. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- New blog post alert! I argue that recommender systems simplify choices and surface personalized content but also leverage behavioral biases in ways that undermine users’ autonomy and thus call for (nuanced) public policies bppblog.com/2025/09/02/a...
- Reposted by Malte DoldGames help us understand life, @annieduke.com tells @jennygrankin.bsky.social—the best games involve the two things that characterize life and provide the context for the decisions we make—skill, and luck: buff.ly/yMQsF7u
- It’s finally out! Our paper on Hayekian Psychological Economics is published in JEM. We argue that Hayek’s theoretical psychology offers valuable insights into learning processes, often overlooked by the heuristics-and-biases tradition in behavioral economics www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EUZIF...
- New working paper on a 'hot' topic in @bppjournal.bsky.social: "Personalized Nudging and the Optimality Problem" www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- Just published the introductory essay to an issue (OA! 😀) of @bppjournal.bsky.social I've been co-editing in honor of Mario Rizzo; with articles by Adam Oliver, Gerd Gigerenzer, Shaun Hargreaves Heap, George Loewenstein, Nick Chater, and Cass Sunstein, among others www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- The complete issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Malte DoldWe’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...
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- New working paper: A BRIEF HISTORY OF NORMATIVITY IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS. We discuss different interpretations of “irrational” behavior and how these interpretations led to different policy ideas over the last few decades www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- New article out! @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social and I explore different notions of autonomy in behavioral public policy, highlighting the role of public deliberation in fostering autonomy as self-constitution—the capacity to reflect critically on one's goals, aspirations, and identity rdcu.be/ee730
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- Kahneman’s tryst with reasonableness: a tease unfulfilled? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- I wrote a review of "A Theory of Subjective Wellbeing" by @MarkFabian_PAIS; it is a thought-provoking, bold book recommendable to any scholar working on wellbeing, welfare, and agency in economics, psychology, philosophy, and public policy analysis www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- Easterlin’s work, along with that of Sen and Kahneman, was pivotal in keeping me engaged with economics as an undergraduate. Thank you, RAE!
- RIP Richard Easterlin. His legacy lives on. newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/n...
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- New working paper on Frank Knight's views on preference adaptation and lessons we can draw for modern political economy: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- For all the PPE folks out there: We're co-organizing a PPE+L conference in Bangalore, India, Dec 11-14, 2025. CFA deadline: Jan 15, 2025. Please share widely and spread the word! ppel.tenureslack.com/call-for-abs...
- Ever wondered why Frank H. Knight continues to inspire scholars (myself included)? Check out Scott Gordon’s thoughtful tribute published in JPE in 1974 two years after Knight’s passing: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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