J Kevin Quinn
Kevin Quinn Ph.D.
My research is in the areas of economic philosophy and the history of economic thought. In the first category, I am working on the implications of moral and normative realism ( a position I now consider to be correct, as against either Humean or Kantian forms of moral subjectivism) for economic methodology. Related work investigates the relationship between reason and morality in the German Idealist tradition and attempts to draw lessons from this body of work for the very different approach to rationality taken by modern economics.
In the history of thought, I am working on the Enlightenment campaign against "enthusiasm" and how this informs the Liberalism of Hume and Smith particularly. State action in pursuit of this goal doesn't conform to the Classical Liberal prescription that the State aought to be neutral with respect to views of the Good Life.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. The American University, 1989
B.A. University of Maryland, 1978
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor of Economics, Bowling Green State University, 1996–present
Assistant Professor of Economics, Bowling Green State University, 1990–1996
Instructor, The American University, Washington, D.C., 1984–1988
Instructor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland, 1982–1984
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Modernist and Pre-Modernist Explanation in Economics,”appears as a chapter in Fullbrook Edward (Ed.), Real World Economics: A Post Autistic Economic Reader, Anthem Press, August 2007
Chapter in book entitled Power in the Disciplines (with M. Neil Browne), editor of the book is Subash Durlahbji, forthcoming.
"Hermeneutics and Libertarian Economics: Odd Couple?, Critical Review, coauthored, summer 1998.
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