Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 401 pp.

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1 Sonja M. AMADAE PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 401 pp. Prisoners of Reason: Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy, (Cambridge University Press, under firm contract 2013, final submission Aug. 2014), forthcoming 2015). DISSERTATION Rational Choice Theory in U.S. Economic, Political, and Policy Science, : Social Scientists Transform the Language of Democracy Prosperity and the Rule of Law: Justice Counts (Routledge, book contract approved, Dec. 2014). AREAS OF CONCENTRATION Contemporary Normative Theory, Philosophy of Political Economy, Philosophy of Social Science, History of Political Thought, Positive Political Theory, Philosophy of Science, and American Politics ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS Outstanding Teaching Award, Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council, The Ohio State University, J. David Greenstone Book Award, Politics & History, American Political Science Assoc., Participant, NEH Summer Institute, Politics & Religion in India, East-West Center, Finalist, Harvard Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow Competition, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, Fellow, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley,

2 EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley: Ph.D., History, 1999 University of Oregon Honors College: B.A., History and Religious Studies, 1988 PUBLICATIONS BOOK CHAPTERS PEER REVIEWED James M. Buchanan, John Rawls, and Democratic Governance, in Deliberative Democracy: Theory and Practice, ed. Robert Cavalier (Pittsburg: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2011), PUBLICATIONS ARTICLES PEER REVIEWED Game Theory is an Episteme that Informs Neoliberal Political Economy, Berlin Journal of Sociology, submitted Nov., Amadae, S.M. and Daniel Lempert, The Viability of Team Reasoning under conditions of Natural Selection: A Replicator Dynamics Analysis Journal of Economic Methodology (forthcoming, June, 2015). Normativity and Instrumentalism in David Lewis Convention, History of European Ideas, 37 (2011) PUBLICATIONS ARTICLES, EDITOR REVIEWED and PEER REVIEWED Neoclassical Economics, Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, available online. Wittgenstein on Counting in Political Economy, Proceedings of 31 st Annual Wittgenstein Symposium, Utility, Universality, and Impartiality in Adam Smith s Jurisprudence, Adam Smith Review, 4 (2008). Equilibrium, Impossibility Theorem, Pareto Optimality, Positive Political Theory, Public Choice, Rational Choice Theory, and Social Choice, Encyclopedia of Governance, ed. Mark W. Bevir (Sage Pub.), Arrow s Impossibility Theorem and the National Security State, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A, Dec. 2005, Vol. 36:4, Nietzsche s Thirst For India: Schopenhauerian, Brahmanist, and Buddhist Accents in Reflections on Truth, the Ascetic Ideal, and the Eternal Return, Idealistic Studies, 2004, Vol. 34:3, Bargaining with the Devil: Commentary on the Ostrom s Quest for Meaning in Public Choice, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2004, Vol. 63:1, Political Science, Dictionary of American History, 3 rd ed., ed. by Stanley I. Kutler (New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 2003). Page 2

3 Positive Political Theory, in Transforming Ideas, ed. by Robert Kraus and Charles E. Phelps (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2000), Amadae, S. M. and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Rochester School: Origins of Positive Political Theory, Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 2, 1999, PUBLICATIONS BOOK REVIEWS Richard Tuck s Free Riding, Ethics, October, 2009, Vol. 119:1, Amartya Sen s Rationality and Freedom, Economics and Philosophy, October, 2004, Vol. 20:2, POSITIONS HELD Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Department of Political Science Assistant Professor, 2006-present Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Research Fellow Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT, Visiting Scholar Department of Government and Department of History of Science, Harvard University, Visiting Scholar Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Department of Political Science Assistant Professor and Associate Professor with Tenure, New School University, Graduate Faculty, New York, Department of Political Science Visiting Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Department of Philosophy Visiting Assistant Professor, London School of Economics, London, Dept. of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method Visiting Fellow, July 2003-May Research Fellow, January 2003 April East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii Visiting Fellow, May 2002 October London School of Economics, London, Ctre. for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Research Associate, November 2000 June Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK Visiting Scholar, January 2001 June University of California, Berkeley, Office for History of Science and Technology Research Fellow, January 2000 June Page 3

4 PAPERS PRESENTED, BY INVITATION (selected) Keynote Lecture, Inventing the Neoliberal Subject: Nuclear Deterrence, Game Theory, and Neoliberal Political Economy, The Agony of Choice: The Social Conditions and Consequences of Rational Decision-Making, International Workshop at the Carl von Ossietzky, University of Oldenburg, Germany, May 22-23, Prisoners of Reason: Game Theory, Deterrence, and Neoliberal Sovereignty, Decisionism Then and Now, International Workshop, European Research Counsel Project HIPODEMA, A History of Political Decision Making in the 20th Century, CNRS Paris Campus, May 20, Nuclearizing Sovereignty, Program on Future Pol, Sciences Po, Paris, May 19, 2014 Materializing the Neoliberal Subject: Game Theory and the Prisoner s Dilemma, Rational Choice Liberalism and the Cultivation of Subjectivity (co-organizer of panel), Western Political Science Association, April 20, Not so Fast Libertarian Paternalism: Sen, Nash, Arrow on Collective Choice, Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona, April 17, Imagining the Neoliberal Subject: Nuclear Deterrence and the Prisoner s Dilemma, Science,Technology, and Society Circle, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Dec., Taking the US from MAD to NUTS: James R. Schlesinger s Role in President Carter s Strategic Policy, History of Science Society Meetings, Boston, Nov., Modern Political Economy: Commentary, New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy, Harvard Business School, Nov Enacting the Neoliberal Subject: Nuclear Deterrence, Game Theory and the Demise of Classical No- Harm Liberalism, Dept. of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Oct Rethinking Cold War Political Theory: From Liberalism to Neoliberalism, American Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, Sept., 2013 Taking the US from MAD to NUTS, International Conference, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, May-June, Game Theory, Rational Deterrence, and Rational Choice Sustain Offensive Realism in International Relations, International Research Workshop, Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, New York University, May, Rational Choice and Modernism, Conference on Modernism and the Social Sciences: Anglo-American Exchanges, University of California, Berkeley, May, Inventing the Neoliberal Self, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, March, Deriving an Ought from an Isn t: Pitfalls in Social Modeling, Political Economy Workshop, Department of Government, Harvard University, February, Page 4

5 Taking the US from MAD to NUTS: Nuclear Policy Science and President Carter s Strategic Dilemma, Incubator Series, History of Science, Harvard University, December, Experts and Policy: Qualification, Categorization, and Field Creation, Social Science History Association, November, Roundtable: Neoliberalism and its Discontents, Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, April Game Theory's Philosophy of Value: Can choice be free when money is used to measure all value?, The Invention of Choice: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Markets, Democracy and Power, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, January Living in a MAD World: Cold War Ontological Insecurity and the Prisoner s Dilemma, History of Economic Society, University of Notre Dame, June Neoliberalism or the American Dream, Midwestern Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, March Nash vs. Arrow and Sen: How the Nash Program Unifies the Social Sciences by Recourse to Objective Needs, CUNY, Nov Rationalizing Hegemony, Office for the History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Sept Deriving and Ought from an Isn t, Midwestern Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, March From the Panopticon to the Prisoner s Dilemma, Society for Social Studies of Science Meetings, Rotterdam, Aug., Prisoner s Dilemma vs. Stag Hunt Contractarianism, Seminar in Logic and Games, CUNY, Nov Wittgenstein on Counting in Political Economy, 31 st International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, Aug Cold War, Nuclear Brinkmanship, and their Prisoner s Dilemma Legacy, Political Science Department, Central European University, March, The Prisoner s Dilemma: Normalizing a Post-Modern Political Economy of Exchange?, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Nov Assessing Broadie, Shaver, Lieberman, Sen and Rothschild on Adam Smith, Adam Smith Roundtable, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August, Historicizing Rational Choice Theory: Pareto Optimality and the Prisoner s Dilemma, Philosophy Department, Carnegie Mellon University, October Does Might Make Right?: Implications of a Rational Choice Approach to Political Theory, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August From the Panopticon to the Prisoner s Dilemma, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersberg, Russian Federation, May, Page 5

6 Virginia Public Choice, John Rawls Theory of Justice, and Neoliberalism, Conference on Neoconservatism, International Center for Graduate Studies, New York University, April Does Might Make Right? Examining the Arguments for Consent and Political Legitimacy Despite the Prisoner s Dilemma, Dept. of Political Science, New School University, April If there is No Scarcity, Why Isn t there Enough to Go Around?, Department of Economics, New School University, March Did the Victim Compensation Fund Allocate Resources Fairly?, Department of Politics, New York University, February Preferences, Identity, and Fairness: Reassessing the Contributions of Rational Choice Theory to Questions of Social Order, Political Science Dept., UC Irvine, January Cold War Social Science: Reworking the Enlightenment Project to Nullify Marxism, History of Science Atomic Sciences Workshop, Princeton University, November, Rational Choice Liberalism, Department of Government Political Theory Colloquium, Harvard University, September, Rational Choice as Non-Instrumental Reasoning: The Collapse of Purposive Rationality Arguments for Capitalism, University of British Columbia, Philosophy Department, February, Rational Choice Theory and the Cold War Victory of Capitalist Democracy over Communism, American Political Science Association Meetings, August, In Search of Asian Values: Does Singapore Defy or Integrate with Western Liberalism?, East-West Center, May, Instrumental Reasoning in Kant, Marginalist Economics, and Rational Choice Theory, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, February, The Development of the Neo-Liberal Self, Allied Social Science Associations Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, January, Rational Choice Theory and Globalization, London School of Economics, Department of Philosophy, Cumberland Lodge, November, Rational Choice Theory and the Philosophy of Minds: Social Choice and Individual Values, Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, May, Discussant of paper by Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, conference honoring James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, May, Hannah Arendt and Ayn Rand: Women as Public Intellectuals, conference at University of California, Berkeley, October, Policy Science, Decision Technologies, and Rational Choice Theory: A Transformation in the Language and Practice of Democracy, Stanford University, Political Science Department, February, From Deweyan Public Sphere Democracy to Arrovian Market Democracy, History of Science Society Meetings, Kansas City, October, Page 6

7 William H. Riker s Making of a Legacy, University of Rochester Political Science Department, April PANELS AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZED Co-Organizer, Panel, Rational Choice Liberalism and the Cultivation of Subjectivity, Western Political Science Association, April 20, Co-Organizer, Imagining the Subject/Imaginary Subjects. Towards a post-subjectivist perspective for dealing with risk and inequality in the 21st century, under consideration at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Co-Organizer, Rationales of Formalisms: Pure, Applied, and Cultural, under consideration Universität Bremen, Germany. COURSES TAUGHT (selected) Politics and Ethics Ohio State University, PS4500 spring 2014 Introduction to Political Theory Ohio State University, PS2400 fall 2013 Ethics and Public Policy Ohio State University, PS3450 fall th Century Political Thought spring 2011 Ohio State University, PS472 Ethics and Public Policy spring 2011 Ohio State University, PS304 Human Rights, honors winter 2011 Ohio State University, PS596H Human Rights winter 2011 Ohio State University, PS564 Human Rights, honors winter 2010 Ohio State University, PS596H Human Rights, honors fall 2009 Ohio State University, PS596H Scope and Methods of Political Science PhD Seminar winter 2008 Ohio State University, PS790 Ethics and Public Policy winter 2008 Ohio State University, PS Political Obligation and Sources of Normativity PhD Seminar autumn 2007 Page 7

8 Ohio State University, PS766 Introduction to Political Theory spring 2007 Ohio State University, PS210 Nineteenth-Century Political Thought spring 2007 Ohio State University, PS672 Political Economy of Scarcity PhD seminar fall 2006 Ohio State University, PS766 Political Theory MA lecture course spring 2006 Central European University Morality and Law (Co-taught with Russell Hardin, New York University) spring 2005 New School University, Graduate Faculty, GPOL6309 History of Rationality PhD Seminar spring 2005 New School University, Graduate Faculty, GPOL5008 History and Philosophy of Economics from Aristotle to Arrow fall 2003 spring 2004 University of British Columbia, Philosophy ; Economics Philosophy of Social Science spring 2004 University of British Columbia, Philosophy 461A Positive and Negative Liberty PhD Seminar fall 2003 University of British Columbia, Philosophy 531 Philosophy of Economics (Master s Level assisted E. McClennen) winter 2003 London School of Economics, Philosophy 413 Philosophy and Public Policy (Master s Level assisted E. McClennen) winter 2003 London School of Economics, Philosophy 415 Knowledge, Politics and Postmodernism fall, 1999 University of California, Berkeley, History 103S American History since the Civil War to the Present (assisted L. Litwack) fall, 1997 University of California, Berkeley, History 7B Introduction to Microcomputers and Programming (lab) spring, 1995 University of California, Berkeley, Interdisc. Studies 110 Knowledge, Politics and Democracy fall, 1993 University of California, Berkeley, History 103B World Civilization, 1800 Present (assisted R. Herr) spring 1993 University of California, Berkeley, Undergrad. Interdisc. Studies 55B) Knowledge and Its Limits (assisted G. Eres) fall, 1990 University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy 4 Page 8

9 Science and Human Values (assisted E. Lloyd) spring, 1990 University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy 5 PHD MENTORING (CHAIR OF COMMITTEE) Justin Acome, Bluegrass Nonsense Politics, PhD Dissertation Aug PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member, OSU CEU Political Science Journal, Advisory Board Member, OSU 2007-present Center for Ethics and Human Values, Committee Member, OSU Institutions and Ethics, Center for Ethics and Human Values, Co-leader OSU Committee on Diversity, Dept. of Political Science, OSU 2013-present Page 9