I am a PhD student in economics at the Crawford School for Public Policy at the Australian National University. The working title of my thesis is 'Towards a Grand Theory of Utility: Integrating insights from philosophy, psychology and economics'. Its aim is to build a mathematical model of utility. It approaches this task from the perspective of philosophy (i.e. word-based theory), mathematics (i.e. numbers-based theory) and statistics (i.e. empirical investigation). My first paper will hopefully be available as a draft around the end of October. It will set out a preliminary specification of the model.
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This blog tracks the progress of my PhD. It will contain book reviews, journal article summaries, random thoughts, working papers and short articles. I intend to use it as a kind of scratch pad for my research as well as a repository of any work that I do towards my PhD and my intended career as an academic. I will be publishing a lot of op-ed style commentaries over the next few years and all the ones that I retain rights to will be re-produced here after an appropriate time delay.
Thus far I have only uploaded a few pieces from my other, more general, blog: markfabian.blogspot.com. In the future I will be writing a lot more stuff that is relevant to this blog and will post on both sites.
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