About
Economics, civic thought, and teaching as public work.
I am an associate research professor and associate director in the Center for Economy and Society at the SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University.
My work sits across behavioral and experimental economics, economics education, applied microeconomics, economic development, and data science in economics. I am especially interested in social preferences, institutions, economic literacy, civic thought, and how we teach economics.
I am the co-author, with Samuel Bowles, of Microeconomics: Competition, Conflict, and Coordination, published by Oxford University Press in 2022. We will be rebuilding the book as an open web project.
I use my middle initial because there is a former rugby player named Simon Halliday, and you probably do not want to confuse us.
Intellectual threads
A compact map of the work, across institutions, learning, and public life.
Social preferences, power, cooperation, and how institutions shape economic life.
Economic literacy, model comprehension, and how students learn economics.
The role of economics in civic education and democratic institutions.
Education
Formal training, kept compact and clearly secondary to the professional identity.
University of Siena, 2012.
University of Cape Town, 2008.
University of Cape Town, 2007.
University of Cape Town, 2004.
University of Cape Town, 2003.