Erwin Dekker is a post-doctoral researcher at the Erasmus School of Economics where he is working on the intellectual biography of Nobel laureate and Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen. He is also assistant professor in cultural economics at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication and has been post-doctoral fellow at the Economics Department of George Mason University. He has recently published ‘The Viennese students of Civilization’ (2016) with Cambridge University Press. His research focuses on the intersection of art and culture with economics. He has published in the fields of cultural economics, economic methodology and intellectual history, and he is currently working on the moral frameworks which sustain markets. He is co-editor of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics.
Pavel Kuchař is a Lecturer in History of Economic Thought at the University of Bristol. He earned his PhD in economics from the University of Turin (Italy). His research has been focused on the analysis of entrepreneurship and its role in the emergence of markets and legitimisation of novelty. Kuchař’s work on entrepreneurship was published in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics (2016), Dekker and Kuchař coauthored papers on the joint production of interpretation instruments (Research in History of Economic Though and Methodology), emergence of orders of worth (Cosmos + Taxis), and on exemplary goods (Schmoller's Jahrbuch).