Economics is increasingly adopting the methodological standards and procedures of the natural sciences. The paper analyzes this 'naturalistic turn' from the philosophical perspective on naturalism, and I discuss the implications for the field of finance. The theory of finance is an interesting...

There are two conflicting views on diversity management: DM as a management response to the political enforcement of societal goals in equality and justice, and DM as a tool to activate human potential and creativity. This article attempts to synthesize both views in a new ap-proach based on...

This paper elaborates on a radical turn in evolutionary epistemology, taking Rappaport's quot;evolutionary significance of liesquot; and Zahavi's quot;handicap principlequot; as starting points. I argue that only a non-adaptionist view is appropriate to understand the progress of human...

This paper is an analytical exercise on language and economics. I argue that culture has a strong impact on the way how symbols are handled in society. Symbols can be of very different kinds, such as religious symbols and statistical data. I try to show that modern Chinese statistics and...

This article elaborates on an alternate general approach to rationality, starting with the Hayekian concept of mind as a complex system of genetically, culturally, and individually created and transmitted rules. quot;Evolutionary Rationalityquot; is an individualistic alternative to quot;Homo...