Call for abstracts:

The Plurality of Evidence and Causality in Economics (PECE-2024)

The Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, 12-13 September 2023 Grodzka 52, Kraków, Poland,

The conference The Plurality of Evidence and Causality in Economics, jointly organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, and the Polish Philosophy of Economics Network, is aiming a forum for an exchange for an exchange of the exchange of the concerneds with the assessing the quality of, ass that make caus claimsal in economics, and use for economic policy-making. Invited keynote lectures will be given by:
– Mara Jimenez-Buedo,
– Federica Russo,
– Jon Williamson.

Economics is one of the disciplines with significant policy. This raises the need to establish causal claims and assess the effects of economic policy-making, and is the the philosophical analysis of these practices. In effect, the questions of how to support causal conclusions, what is the meaning is the the meaning of causal, claims and how to assess the quality of causal evidence in economic have been. The debates are far from conclusive.

In, in invite concerned contributions with the following questions:

– What are causal relations in the economy?
What is the concept of causality adequate to economics?
What is the causal epistemology most suitable for the economic sciences?
How to apply Evidential Pluralism to research in economics and policymaking?
How to assess the quality of mechanistic evidence in economics?
What are the specific features of economic mechanisms?
What is the role of economic theory delivering mechanistic evidence?
o What is the role of associational studies in providing evidence for mechanisms?
about Are data-generating processes of econometric models mechanistic hypotheses?
o How is the test mechanistic hypotheses in economics?
How to assess the quality of difference-making in economics?
o Does the evidence-based policy hierarchy apply to economics?
o What is the role of observational studies delivering difference-making?
o How to assess the quality of design-based econometric research?
about How to deal with the replication crisis in econometrics?
– What evidentiary standards should be applied to macroeconomics and other disciplines whereal intervention studies is infeasible?
What are the philosophical problems of economic policy implementation?

Abstracts no longer than 500 words (including references) should be submitted in an attachment, not including details by the email with the “PECE2024 submission’ sent to: mariusz.maziarz?uj.edu.pl.

Deadline for submission: May 15th, 2024
Decisions will be announced by June 1st, 2024.