ERASMUS JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY AND ECONOMICS VOLUME 5, ISSUE 2, AUTUMN 2012 The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE) is a peer-reviewed bi-annual academic journal supported by the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam. EJPE publishes research on methodology of economics, history of economic thought, ethics and economics, and the conceptual analysis of inter-disciplinary work relating economics to other fields. EJPE is an open-access journal. For additional information, see our website: <http://ejpe.org>. All submissions should be sent via e-mail to: <
[email protected]> EDITORS François Claveau C. Tyler DesRoches Joost W. Hengstmengel Luis Mireles-Flores Thomas Wells EDITORIAL ADVISOR Julian Reiss ADVISORY BOARD Erik Angner, Kenneth L. Avio, Roger Backhouse, Marcel Boumans, Richard Bradley, Nancy Cartwright, David Colander, Job Daemen, John B. Davis, Sheila Dow, Till Grüne-Yanoff, D. Wade Hands, Conrad Heilmann, Frank Hindriks, Clemens Hirsch, Geoffrey Hodgson, Elias L. Khalil, Arjo Klamer, Alessandro Lanteri, Aki Lehtinen, Uskali Mäki, Caterina Marchionni, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Mozaffar Qizilbash, Ingrid Robeyns, Malcolm Rutherford, Margaret Schabas, Eric Schliesser, Esther-Mirjam Sent, Robert Sugden, Jack Vromen. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS EJPE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THOSE WHO HAVE ASSISTED IN PREPARING THE PRESENT ISSUE : Elizabeth Anderson, Jean Baccelli, Wiljan van den Berge, Gido Berns, Constanze Binder, Bruce Caldwell, Anne-Sophie Chambost, Willem van der Deijl, Kenny Easwaran, Christoph Engel, Herrade Igersheim, Andrew Inkpen, Donald R. Kelley, Andrea E. Maneschi, Stephen Meardon, Fabien Medvecky, Christopher Mole, Tibor Neugebauer, Paul Oslington, George Reisch, David Robichaud, Nikos Skiadopoulos, Philippe Steiner, Koen Swinkels, Margo Trappenburg, Keith Tribe, Elias Tsakas, Bradley Turner, Mich Werner.