This was a difficult year's-end review to write. 2019 was not a good year for me, neither professionally nor personally, and although I did have a good number of things come out, based on past efforts, I produced very little new material over the last twelve months.
I had two books published this year, Batman and Ethics (Wiley Blackwell) and my edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics (Oxford University Press), and five articles and book chapters:
- “With All Due Respect: A Kantian Approach to Economics,” in The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics, pp. 54-76
- “More Harm Than Benefit: The Ramifications of the Neglect of Rights in Economics,” in Wilfred Dolfsma and Ioana Negru (eds), The Ethical Formation of Economists (Routledge), pp. 71-91
- “Nudging – Ethical and Political Dimensions of Choice Architectures,” in Holger Strassheim and Silke Beck (eds), Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy (Edward Elgar), pp. 319-331
- “Criminal Justice in Gotham: The Role of the Dark Knight,” in Damien Picariello (ed.), Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought (Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 123-140
- “The Neglect of Rights in Law and Economics,” GNLU Journal of Law & Economics, vol. II, pp. 22-39
The final piece above was written this year, as was a book review for a journal and a very short piece on nudge for an online site (both forthcoming next year, perhaps). In terms of blogs, I wrote my usual complement of posts for Psychology Today, including a post based on my Batman book originally posted at The Comics Professor, and kept up with my Virtues of Captain America blog (although my backlog is not what it used to be). Finally, I wrote a nudge paper for a special journal issue that didn't work for the reviewers and a few chapters for the antitrust book I worked on in the spring but set aside (twice), and I finished the background reading for the first of two superhero books I am writing for Ockham Publishing (who published my Civil War book in 2016).
Looking ahead to next year, I plan to write the superhero book mentioned above (and start background work on the second), finalize plans for an academic trade book on economics and ethics (and write an invited handbook chapter on same), and continue to work on the antitrust book (which I've begun to refer to as my "white whale").
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