Kevin D. Hoover

Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University (Status-Only)

Campus

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

History and philosophy of economics, philosophy of science applied to economics, and pragmatism

Biography

Applied Intermediate Macroeconomic, Cambridge University Press, 2012.  [Chinese translation, 2015]

“The Struggle for the Soul of Economics,” Journal of Economic Methodology, 2022. 
“Models, Truth, and Analytic Inference in Economics,” in John Davis, Bruce Caldwell, Uskali Mäki, and Esther-Mirjam Sent, editors. Methodology and History of Economics:  Reflections with and without Rules, Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, 2022. 

“Karl Brunner’s Philosophy of Science:  Macroeconomics through the Lens of Logical Empiricism,” in Thomas Moser and Marcel Savioz, editors. Karl Brunner and Monetarism.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press, 2022, pp. 293-320.

“Ricardian Inference:  Charles S. Peirce, Economics, and Scientific Method,”  Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 56(4), Fall 2020, pp. 521-557 (with James Wible).

 “The Discovery of Long-Run Causal Order: A Preliminary Investigation,” Econometrics 8(3), 31, 3 August 2020, pp. 1-25:  https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics8030031.

“The Economics of Trade Liberalization: Charles S. Peirce and the Spanish Treaty of 1884,” European Journal for the History of Economic Thought. DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2020.1805483, published online 12 August 2020 (with 
James Wible).

“The Life you do Not Save: Reflections on the Causal Element in the Notion of a Decision’s Consequences: Comment,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 176(1), 169-174, ISSN 0932-4569, DOI: 10.1628/jite-2020-0019