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About Mario Rizzo

My research is grounded on four fundamental premises: (1) the decentralization of knowledge in a complex society, such as ours, is important in the explanation of both economic and social phenomena; (2) human action should be understood in a contextual way -- both the individual and social context is needed to to make sense of what people do and how they relate to one another;
(3) these phenomena are, wherever possible, best viewed as processes in time; and (4) economic and social policies usually have important unintended consequences.
My central interests are in the interfaces between philosophy and economics, law and economics, and ethics and economics. I believe that philosophy is a more important sister discipline to economics than mathematics. Accordingly, the methods applied in my work reflect this.

Positions

Present Faculty Member, New York University
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Disciplines


Research Interests

Ethics and Economics, Law and Economics, Psychology and Economics, Foundations of Economic Theory and Moral and Economic Paternalism, Classical Liberalism

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Contact Information

New York University
Department of Economics
269 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10003
mario.rizzo@nyu.edu

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