ERASMUSJOURNALFORPHILOSOPHYANDECONOMICS
VOLUME9,ISSUE1,SPRING2016
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EDITORS
HuubBrouwer
OsmanÇağlarDede
WillemJ.A.vanderDeijl
JoostW.Hengstmengel
PhilippeVerreault-Julien
ThomasWells
ADVISORYBOARD
ErikAngner,RogerBackhouse,MarcelBoumans,RichardBradley,
NancyD.Cartwright,DavidColander,JobDaemen,JohnB.Davis,
SheilaC.Dow,TillGrüne-Yanoff,D.WadeHands,ConradHeilmann,
FrankHindriks,ClemensHirsch,GeoffreyHodgson,EliasKhalil,ArjoKlamer,
AlessandroLanteri,AkiLehtinen,UskaliMäki,CaterinaMarchionni,
DeirdreN.McCloskey,MozaffarQizilbash,JulianReiss,IngridRobeyns,
MalcolmRutherford,MargaretSchabas,EricSchliesser,
Esther-MirjamSent,RobertSugden,JackVromen.
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ISSN:1876-9098
ERASMUS JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY AND ECONOMICS
VOLUME 9, ISSUE 1, SPRING 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES (special issue on Mandeville)
Science, politics, and the economy:
the unintended consequences of a diabolic paradox (editorial)
LAURENS VAN APELDOORN, HARRO MAAS , AND JOHAN OLSTHOORN
[pp. iii-viii]
Treating of bodies medical and political:
Dr. Mandeville’s materialism
HAROLD J. COOK
[pp. 1-31]
The Dutch background of Bernard Mandeville’s thought:
escaping the Procrustean bed of neo-Augustinianism
RUDI VERBURG
[pp. 32-61]
Bernard Mandeville on hypochondria and self-liking
MAURO S IMONAZZI
[pp. 62-81]
Mandeville on charity schools:
happiness, social order and the psychology of poverty
FRANCESCA PONGIGLIONE AND MIKKO TOLONEN
[pp. 82-100]
Bernard Mandeville and the doctrine of laissez-faire
RENEE PRENDERGAST
[pp. 101-123]
Bees on paper: the British press reads the Fable
MATTEO REVOLTI
[pp. 124-141]
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION
Neural networks, real patterns, and the mathematics
of constrained optimization:
an interview with DON ROSS
[pp. 142-155]
BOOK REVIEWS
Jonathan Wight’s Ethics in economics:
an introduction to moral frameworks
GEORGE DEMARTINO
[pp. 156-163]
Peter Dietsch’s Catching capital:
the ethics of tax competition
GILLIAN BROCK
[pp. 164-172]
Istvan Hont’s Politics in commercial society:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith
RUDI VERBURG
[pp. 173-179]
Tony Lawson’s Essays on the nature and
state of modern economics
MARCO S EBASTIANELLI
[pp. 180-187]
Daniel M. Hausman’s Valuing health.
Well-being, freedom, and suffering
ANDREA KLONSCHINSKI
[pp. 188-196]