PAPERS
Journal articles
Book chapters and dictionary entries
- Ellsberg 1961: Text, Context, Influence. Decisions in Economics and Finance, 2024, in press.
- Digital Nudging and Cookie Rejection: An Experiment, with L. Congiu and M. Scacchi. Italian Economic Journal, 2024, in press.
- Behavioural and Heuristic Models are As-If Models Too — and That’s OK. Economics and Philosophy, 2023, in press.
- A Review of Nudges: Definitions, Justifications, Effectiveness, with L. Congiu. Journal of Economic Surveys, 36, 2022: 188–213.
- On the Recent Philosophy of Decision Theory. Journal of Economic Methodology, 28, 2021: 98–106.
- Message and Environment: A Framework for Nudges and Choice Architecture, with L. Congiu. Behavioural Public Policy, 4, 2020: 71–87.
- Measuring Utility Without ‘Externalist Fallacies’. Journal of Economic Methodology, 26, 2019: 393–400.
- More Light on Measuring Utility. Œconomia, 9, 2019: 119–132.
- Expected Utility Theory and Experimental Utility Measurement, 1950–1985: From Confidence to Scepticism. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 24, 2017: 1318–1354.
- How Economists Came to Accept Expected Utility Theory: The Case of Samuelson and Savage. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30, 2016: 219–236.
- Measuring the Economizing Mind in the 1940s and 1950s: The Mosteller–Nogee and Davidson–Suppes–Siegel Experiments to Measure the Utility of Money. History of Political Economy, 48 (5), 2016: 239–269.
- Nash Was a First to Axiomatize Expected Utility, with H. Bleichrodt, C. Li, and P.P. Wakker. Theory and Decision, 81, 2016: 309–312.
- Over-the-Counter Markets vs. Double Auctions: A Comparative Experimental Study, with G. Attanasi and S. Centorrino. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 63, 2016: 22–35.
- Measurement Theory and Utility Analysis in Suppes’ Early Work, 1951–1958. Journal of Economic Methodology, 23, 2016: 252–267.
- Twentieth-Century Italian Economic Thought through the Lens of the Giornale degli Economisti. Giornale degli Economisti, 125, 2015: v–xx.
- Introduction: Methodologies of Bounded Rationality, with T. Grüne-Yanoff and C. Marchionni. Journal of Economic Methodology, 21, 2014: 325–342.
- Were Jevons, Menger and Walras Really Cardinalists? On the Notion of Measurement in Utility Theory, Psychology, Mathematics and Other Disciplines, 1870–1910. History of Political Economy, 45, 2013: 373–414.
- How Cardinal Utility Entered Economic Analysis, 1909–1944. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 20, 2013: 906–939.
- Intension, Extension, and the Model of Belief and Knowledge in Economics. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 5 (2), 2012: 1–26.
- Becker Random Behavior and the As-If Defense of Rational Choice Theory in Demand Analysis, with P. Tubaro. Journal of Economic Methodology, 18, 2011: 107–128.
- More Economics, Please: We’re Historians of Economics. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 30, 2008: 85–91.
- Early Experiments in Consumer Demand Theory: 1930–1970. History of Political Economy, 39, 2007: 359–401.
- History of Consumer Demand Theory 1871–1971: A Neo-Kantian Rational Reconstruction. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 14, 2007: 119–156.
- The Logic of Experimental Discovery. A Review Essay on F. Guala. The Methodology of Experimental Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2005. History of Economic Ideas, 14, 2006: 123–130.
- W.E. Johnson’s 1913 Paper and the Question of his Knowledge of Pareto. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 27, 2005: 283–304.
- La riflessione di Enzo Paci sull’economia politica: una disamina economico-filosofica. Economia Politica, 17, 2000: 93–112.
Book chapters and dictionary entries
- History of Utility Theory. In The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics, edited by C. Heilmann and J. Reiss, New York: Routledge, 2022, 23–36.
- Not a Behaviorist: Samuelson’s Contributions to Utility Theory in the Harvard Years, 1936–1940. In Paul Samuelson. Master of Modern Economics, edited by R. A. Cord. R. Anderson, and W. Barnett, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019: 243–278.
- Austrian Debates on Utility Measurement, from Menger to Hayek. In Hayek: A Collaborative Biography, Part IV. England, the Ordinal Revolution and the Road to Serfdom, 1931–1950, edited by R. Leeson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: 137–179.
- Teoria della scelta razionale. In Enciclopedia Filosofica, edited by V. Melchiorre, vol. 10: 10105–10109. Milano: Bompiani, 2006.
- Short entries in Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani: Equilibrio di Nash (vol. 4: 3512–3513), Free rider (vol. 5: 4469–4470), Giochi cooperativi (vol. 5: 4754–4755), Giochi non-cooperativi (vol. 5: 4755), Incertezza e rischio (vol. 6: 5581–5582).