I have resigned from my position at the AUB and joined the private sector. 

If you desire to contact me please use my gmail account myname@.gmail.com 

Publications

Mabsout, R. (2022) Abduction in  economics. In The Handbook for Abductive Cognition, L. Magnani (ed). Springer.

Mabsout, R. (2022) John Stuart Mill, soft paternalist. Social Choice & Welfare.

Mabsout, R. (with Hossein Radmard) (2020) Experimenting with the Coase theorem. Journal of Economic Methodology, 27, pp. 1-17.

Mabsout, R. (with Jana Mourad) (2018) Harnessing heuristics for economic policy. Economics & Philosophy, 34, pp. 135-163. 

Mabsout, R. (2018) The backward induction controversy as a metaphorical problem. Economic Thought, 7, pp. 24-49.

Mabsout, R. (2016) Response to Polzin, Rauschmayer, Lilley, and Whitehead (2015) What could 'mindful capabilities' be? A comment on Mabsout's 'Mindful Capabilities'. Ecological Economics, 128, pp. 260-261.

Mabsout, R. (with Bana Bashour) (2016) Reconciling economics with naturalist ethical theory. Review of Social Economy. 74, pp. 275-297. DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2016.1168034.

Mabsout, R. (2015) Abduction and economics: The contributions of Charles Peirce and Herbert Simon. Journal of Economic Methodology, 22, pp. 491-516. DOI: 10.1080/1350178X.2015.1024876.

Mabsout, R. (2015) Mindful capability. Ecological Economics. 112, pp. 86-97. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.01.008.

Mabsout, R. (2014) Bringing ethics back to welfare economics. Review of Social Economy, LXXII, pp. 1-28. DOI:10.1080/00346764.2013.806109 (Paper selected as editor's pick for 2015).

Mabsout, R. (2013) “Health and capability in Ethiopia”. In The Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research, Alex Michalos (ed.). Springer.

Mabsout, R. (2011) Capability and health functioning in Ethiopian households. Social Indicators Research, 101, pp. 359-389. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9661-0.

Mabsout, R., (with Andre van Hoorn, A., & Esther-Mirjam Sent) (2010). Happiness and capability: Introduction to symposium. Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics (previously Journal of  Socio-Economics), 39, pp. 339-343. DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2009.10.013.

Mabsout, R., (with Irene van Staveren) (2010). Disentangling bargaining power from individual and household level to institutions: Evidence on women's position in Ethiopia. World Development, 38, 5, pp. 783-796. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.011.

Book reviews

Late Neoclassical Economics: The Restoration of Theoretical Humanism in Contemporary Economic Theory, Yahya Madra, Routledge. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy & Economics, (2018), 11, pp. 107-116.

Ethics in Economics: An Introduction to Moral Frameworks, Jonathan Wight, Stanford University Press. The American Economist, (2017), 62, pp. 272-275. DOI: 10.1177/0569434517691695.

The Society of Equals, Pierre Rosanvallon, Harvard University Press. Review of Political Economy, (2015), 27, pp. 685-689. DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2015.1080470.

Referee

Culture, Health, and Sexuality; Ecological Economics; Economic Systems; Feminist Economics; Forum for Social Economics; International Studies in Philosophy of Science; Journal of Bioethical Inquiry; Journal of Business Ethics; Journal of Cleaner Production; Journal of Economic Methodology; Journal of Institutional Economics; Journal of International Development; Journal of Poverty Alleviation & International Development; Palgrave; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Review of Social Economy; Routledge; Synthese; World Development; World Economic Association.

Teaching

Principles of economics

Economic statistics I

Applied econometrics 

Intermediate price theory 

History of economic thought 

Development economics 

Philosophy and methodology of economics 

Behavioral economics & public policy 

Economic globalisation & ethics (Nijmegen) (2008-2009)

Honours & Awards

2019 Visiting Scholar, Free University of Berlin.

2018 Workshop on teach the teachers - Institutions & Behavior (with Prof Stefan Voigt). American University of Beirut May 8-13

2014 Academy of Finland, Center for Excellence in the Philosophy of Science (TINT), Helsinki.

University service

Financial Aid Committee (2021-2023)

General education board (2020-2022)

Research Committee - Faculty of Arts & Sciences (2019-2022)

Acting Chair (2019-2021)

Associate Chair (2018-2019)

Sophomore, junior, and senior student adviser (2016-2022)

General Education Ethics Task Force (2019)

AUB Nudge Group, Faculty of Arts and Sciences representative (2017-2018)

Faculty adviser for The Entrepreneurship Club (2016-2018)

Chair of Department (2015-2016)

Social and Behavioral Institutional Review Board (2014-2015)

Freshman adviser (2013- 2015)

Acting Chair (2012-2015)

Undergraduate Admissions Committee - Faculty of Arts & Sciences (2011-2013)

Association member

International Network for Economic Methodology (INEM)

World Economic Association  (WEA)

Nudge Lebanon (Board member)