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  1. Rules and temptations: which came first?

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, January 2026, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  2. Is rationality a cognitive faculty?

    Article • F1000Research, November 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Elias Khalil

  3. Two- and half-centuries of equilibrium economics: Adam Smith and the evisceration of the spatial dimension from the theory of production

    Article • Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, September 2025, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  4. Anxiety and rationality: Allais paradox, procrastination, Keynesian expectations, and other anxiety-based deviations from rationality

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  5. Why are Some Transactions Repugnant? Superseding the Utilitarian and the Deontological Explanations

    Article • Journal of Economic Issues, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  6. Faust and Job: The Dual Facets of Happiness

    Article • Philosophies, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Elias Khalil

  7. Does the state usher in a special stage in history? Probing the Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity

    Article • The Australian Journal of Anthropology, June 2025, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  8. The paradox of friendship-and-love: distinguishing dishonesty from insincerity à la Adam Smith

    Article • International Journal of Ethics and Systems, June 2025, Emerald

    Elias Khalil

  9. Who Is Afraid of Love? Adam Smith and the Rational Analysis of Bonding

    Article • Theoria, May 2025, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  10. Taxonomy of Cooperation and Reciprocity: Beyond Interdisciplinary Social Science Imperialism

    Article • Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  11. The Scope of Justice Dilemma

    Article • Chinese Political Science Review, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  12. Questioning the ‘subjective well-being’ concept: Distinguishing wellbeing and happiness

    Article • Acta Psychologica, March 2025, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  13. Is happiness independent of income? Set point theory à la Kahneman

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, October 2024, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  14. Dignity entitlements contra property rights: are all preferences reducible to a single metric?

    Article • Cogent Social Sciences, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  15. Mental accounting, heuristics, and the second‐best: Solving the calculator‐jacket puzzle

    Article • Managerial and Decision Economics, February 2024, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  16. Blasphemy laws contra defamation laws: An anomaly facing rational choice theory

    Article • Social Sciences & Humanities Open, January 2024, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  17. Refined tastes, coarse tastes: Solving the stratification-of-goods enigma

    Article • Rationality and Society, December 2023, SAGE Publications

    Elias Khalil

  18. Is technological/institutional diversity primarily the outcome of the quest after freedom and identity?

    Article • Reviews in Anthropology, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  19. Leadership heuristic

    Article • Journal of Economic Psychology, October 2023, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  20. Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments

    Article • Topoi, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  21. The cost of love: Solving the gift anomaly

    Article • Kyklos, August 2023, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  22. Is rationality a cognitive faculty?

    Article • F1000Research, January 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Elias Khalil

  23. Can rational choice explain hope and patience? Frustration and bitterness inThe Book of Job

    Article • International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  24. Two Anomalies Facing the Patriotism-Cosmopolitanism Continuum Thesis

    Article • International Philosophical Quarterly, January 2023, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Elias Khalil

  25. DOES FRIENDSHIP STEM FROM ALTRUISM? ADAM SMITH AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LOVE-BASED AND INTEREST-BASED PREFERENCES

    Article • Journal of the History of Economic Thought, September 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  26. The information inelasticity of habits: Kahneman’s bounded rationality or Simon’s procedural rationality?

    Article • Synthese, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  27. The parallelism of cognitive economy and physiological economy: A rationality-based dual process theory

    Article • Current Psychology, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  28. Solving the income-happiness paradox

    Article • Visual Geosciences formerly Electronic Geosciences, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  29. Does Friendship Stem from Altruism? Adam Smith and the Distinction between Love-based and Interest-based Preferences

    Article • April 2022, Center for Open Science

    Elias Khalil

  30. Does Friendship Stem from Altruism? Adam Smith and the Distinction between Love-based and Interest-based Preferences.

    Article • December 2021, Center for Open Science

    Elias Khalil

  31. Why Does Rubin's Vase Differ Radically From Optical Illusions? Framing Effects Contra Cognitive Illusions

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2021, Frontiers

    Elias Khalil

  32. The aspirational income hypothesis: On the limits of the relative income hypothesis

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, February 2021, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  33. Is “willpower” a scientific concept? Suppressing temptation contra resolution in the face of adversity

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  34. Other-Regarding Preferences

    Article • Social Theory and Practice, January 2021, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Elias Khalil

  35. A theory of instrumental and existential rational decisions: Smith, Weber, Mauss, Tönnies after Martin Buber

    Article • Theory and Decision, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  36. The isomorphism hypothesis: The prisoner's dilemma as intertemporal allocation, and vice versa

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, August 2020, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  37. Does the Awe of the rich-and-powerful stem from benevolence?

    Article • Critical Horizons, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  38. Wellbeing and Happiness

    Article • The Journal of Value Inquiry, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  39. Moral licensing, instrumental apology and insincerity aversion: Taking Immanuel Kant to the lab

    Article • PLOS One, November 2018, PLOS

    Elias Khalil

  40. Instruction Protocols: Moral Licensing, Instrumental Apology and Insincerity Aversion: Taking Immanuel Kant to the Lab v1

    Article • September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  41. A Theory of Tasteful and Distasteful Transactions

    Article • Kyklos, January 2018, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  42. Does identity fusion give rise to the group – or the reverse? Politics- versus community-based groups

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  43. Socialized view of man vs. rational choice theory: What does smith’s sympathy have to say?

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, November 2017, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  44. Why we cannot define exploitation and efficiency without first defining the boundary of the group

    Article • The Review of Black Political Economy, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil, Elias Khalil

  45. Making Sense of Self-Deception: Distinguishing Self-Deception from Delusion, Moral Licensing, Cognitive Dissonance and Other Self-Distortions

    Article • Philosophy, September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  46. Distinguishing Injustice, Exploitation and Harm

    Article • Theoria, September 2017, Berghahn Journals

    Elias Khalil

  47. Weakness of will and stiffness of will: how far are shirking, slackening, favoritism, spoiling of children, and pornography from obsessivecompulsive behavior?

    Article • May 2017, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Elias Khalil

  48. Explicit vs implicit proprietorship: Can endowment effect theory explain exchange asymmetry?

    Article • Economics Letters, May 2017, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  49. Temptations as Impulsivity: How far are Regret and the Allais Paradox from Shoplifting?

    Article • Economic Modelling, December 2015, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  50. The Fellow-Feeling Paradox: Hume, Smith and the Moral Order

    Article • Philosophy, July 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  51. Deciphering mirror neurons: Rational decision versus associative learning

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  52. Disentangling the order effect from the context effect: Analogies, homologies, and quantum probability

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, May 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  53. Two kinds of theory-laden cognitive processes: Distinguishing intransigence from dogmatism

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, May 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  54. Lock-in institutions and efficiency

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, April 2013, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  55. What Determines the Boundary of Civil Society? Hume, Smith and the Justification of European Exploitation of Non-Europeans

    Article • Theoria, January 2013, Berghahn Journals

    Elias Khalil

  56. Practical beliefs vs. scientific beliefs: two kinds of maximization

    Article • Theory and Decision, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  57. Optimization, path dependence and the law: Can judges promote efficiency?

    Article • International Review of Law and Economics, March 2012, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  58. The Temper Tantrums of Nations: Why Would Weak Nations Challenge Hegemonic Nations?

    Article • International Negotiation, January 2012, Brill

    Elias Khalil

  59. Rational, Normative and Procedural Theories of Beliefs: Can They Explain Internal Motivations?

    Article • Journal of Economic Issues, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  60. How not to think about moral values

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, February 2011, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  61. The weightless hat: Is self-deception optimal?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  62. Emotions, natural selection, and rationality

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, January 2011, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  63. The mirror neuron paradox: How far is understanding from mimicking?

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, January 2011, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  64. WHY EUROPE? A CRITIQUE OF INSTITUTIONALIST AND CULTURALIST ECONOMICS

    Article • Journal of Economic Surveys, December 2010, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  65. The Bayesian fallacy: Distinguishing internal motivations and religious beliefs from other beliefs

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, August 2010, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  66. Are Plants Rational?

    Article • Biological Theory, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  67. ADAM SMITH’S CONCEPT OF SELF-COMMAND AS A SOLUTION TO DYNAMIC INCONSISTENCY AND THE COMMITMENT PROBLEM

    Article • Economic Inquiry, January 2010, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  68. XII. The Curious Case of Routines: Between Deliberation and Instinct

    Article • December 2009, De Gruyter

    Elias Khalil

  69. The equivalence of neo-Darwinism and Walrasian equilibrium: in defense of Organismus economicus

    Article • Biology & Philosophy, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  70. Self-deceit and self-serving bias: Adam Smith on ‘General Rules’

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, August 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  71. Brand death: A developmental model of senescence

    Article • Journal of Business Research, March 2009, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  72. Book review

    Article • The Journal of Socio-Economics, March 2009, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  73. Are stomachs rational?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  74. Complexity provides a better explanation than probability for confidence in syllogistic inferences

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  75. Action, Entrepreneurship and Evolution

    Article • December 2008, De Gruyter

    Elias Khalil

  76. Natural selection and rational decision: two concepts of optimization

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Economics, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  77. Are addictions “biases and errors” in the rational decision process?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, July 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  78. Animal innovation defined and operationalized

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  79. Ibn Khaldûn on Property Rights,The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, August 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  80. Comment

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, March 2007, SAGE Publications

    Elias Khalil

  81. An anatomy of authority: Adam Smith as political theorist

    Article • Cambridge Journal of Economics, January 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Elias Khalil

  82. The Gift Paradox: Complex Selves and Symbolic Good

    Article • Review of Social Economy, September 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  83. Introduction

    Article • March 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  84. The Three Laws of Thermodynamics and the Theory of Production

    Article • Journal of Economic Issues, March 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  85. Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology

    Article • February 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  86. What is altruism?

    Article • Journal of Economic Psychology, February 2004, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  87. What is altruism? A reply to critics

    Article • Journal of Economic Psychology, February 2004, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  88. Is a group better off with more altruists? Not necessarily

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, January 2004, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  89. A transactional view of entrepreneurship: a Deweyan approach

    Article • Journal of Economic Methodology, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  90. The context problematic, behavioral economics and the transactional view: an introduction to 'John Dewey and economic theory'

    Article • Journal of Economic Methodology, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  91. Is the prisoner's dilemma metaphor suitable for altruism? Distinguishing self-control and commitment from altruism

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  92. Similarity versus familiarity: When empathy becomes selfish

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  93. Is Adam Smith Liberal?

    Article • Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, January 2002, Mohr Siebeck

    Elias Khalil

  94. Adam Smith and Three Theories of Altruism

    Article • Recherches économiques de Louvain, January 2001, CAIRN

    Elias Khalil

  95. Beyond natural selection and divine intervention: The Lamarckian implication of Adam Smith's invisible hand

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Economics, August 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  96. Making Sense of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand: Beyond Pareto Optimality and Unintended Consequences

    Article • Journal of the History of Economic Thought, March 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  97. Article • Journal of Bioeconomics, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  98. Article • Theory and Decision, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  99. Sentimental fools: a critique of Amartya Sen’s notion of commitment

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, December 1999, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  100. Two kinds of order: Thoughts on the theory of the firm

    Article • The Journal of Socio-Economics, July 1999, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  101. Institutions, Naturalism and Evolution

    Article • Review of Political Economy, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  102. The Janus Hypothesis

    Article • Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, December 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  103. Buridan's Ass, Rationality and Entrepreneurship: A Reply to Hargreaves Heap

    Article • Kyklos, May 1998, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  104. The five careers of the biological metaphor in economic theory

    Article • The Journal of Socio-Economics, January 1998, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  105. Article • European Journal of Law and Economics, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  106. Article • De Economist, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  107. Chaos Theory Versus Heisenberg's Uncertainty: Risk, Uncertainty and Economic Theory

    Article • The American Economist, October 1997, SAGE Publications

    Elias Khalil

  108. Evolutionary Biology and Evolutionary Economics

    Article • Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, October 1997, SAGE Publications

    Elias Khalil

  109. Is the firm an individual?

    Article • Cambridge Journal of Economics, July 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Elias Khalil

  110. Buridan's Ass, Risk, Uncertainty, and Self‐Competition: A Theory of Entrepreneurship

    Article • Kyklos, May 1997, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  111. Production and Environmental Resources: A Prelude to an Evolutionary Framework

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, April 1997, JSTOR

    Elias Khalil

  112. Economics, Biology, and Naturalism: Three Problems Concerning the Question of Individuality

    Article • Biology & Philosophy, February 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  113. Article • Constitutional Political Economy, January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  114. Article • De Economist, January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  115. Book Reviews

    Article • Journal of Economic Methodology, December 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  116. Organism and Organization

    Article • Biology & Philosophy, December 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  117. Respect, admiration, aggrandizement: Adam Smith as economic psychologist

    Article • Journal of Economic Psychology, November 1996, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  118. Kenneth Boulding: Ecodynamicist or Evolutionary Economist?

    Article • Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, September 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  119. NON‐LINEAR DYNAMICS VERSUS DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES: TWO KINDS OF CHANGE*

    Article • Manchester School, September 1996, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  120. Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, July 1996, JSTOR

    Elias Khalil

  121. FRIEDRICK HAYEK'S DARWINIAN THEORY OF EVOLUTION OF INSTITUTIONS: TWO PROBLEMS*

    Article • Australian Economic Papers, June 1996, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  122. Technology and enterprise in a historical perspective

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Economics, March 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  123. After the Special Nature of the Firm: Beyond the Critics of Orthodox Neoclassical Economics

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  124. What is Economic Action? From Marshall and Robbins to Polanyi and Becker

    Article • Journal of the History of Economic Thought, January 1996, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  125. The socioculturalist agenda in economics: Critical remarks of Thorstein Veblen's legacy

    Article • The Journal of Socio-Economics, December 1995, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  126. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS AND ECOLOGICAL DARWINISM

    Article • Journal of Biological System, December 1995, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Elias Khalil

  127. Nonlinear Thermodynamics and Social Science Modeling: Fad Cycles, Cultural Development and Identificational Slips

    Article • American Journal of Economics and Sociology, October 1995, Wiley

    Elias Khalil

  128. Organizations, Naturalism, and Complexity

    Article • Review of Social Economy, September 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  129. Individual separateness or universal scheme?

    Article • Human Nature, March 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  130. Has Economics Progressed? Rectilinear, Historicist, Universalist, and Evolutionary Historiographies

    Article • History of Political Economy, March 1995, Duke University Press

    Elias Khalil

  131. Institutional theory of the firm? Extension and limitation

    Article • Review of Political Economy, January 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  132. A Reply to Lianos's Critique

    Article • Journal of the History of Economic Thought, January 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  133. Kenneth E. Boulding, 1910–1993

    Article • Journal of Economic Methodology, July 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  134. Recycling of matter

    Article • Ecological Economics, April 1994, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  135. Economic behavior and institutions

    Article • International Review of Economics & Finance, January 1993, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  136. Is Poincaréan nonlinear dynamics the alternative to the selection theory of evolution?

    Article • Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, January 1993, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  137. Neo-classical Economics and Neo-Darwinism: Clearing the Way for Historical Thinking

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Elias Khalil

  138. Geography and Trade

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, October 1992, JSTOR

    Elias Khalil

  139. Hayek's Spontaneous Order and Varela's Autopoiesis: A Comment

    Article • Human Systems Management, June 1992, IOS Press

    Elias Khalil

  140. Are “good samaritan” laws desirable? A note

    Article • Forum for Social Economics, January 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  141. Marx’s Understanding of the Essence of Capitalism

    Article • History of Economics Review, January 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  142. Entropy law and Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's paradigm: A reply

    Article • Ecological Economics, July 1991, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  143. Rules and Institutions

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, January 1991, JSTOR

    Elias Khalil

  144. Beyond Self-Interest and Altruism: A Reconstruction of Adam Smith's Theory of Human Conduct

    Article • Economics and Philosophy, October 1990, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  145. Entropy law and exhaustion of natural resources Is Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's paradigm defensible?

    Article • Ecological Economics, June 1990, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  146. Natural complex vs. natural system

    Article • Journal of Social and Biological Systems, January 1990, Elsevier

    Elias Khalil

  147. Rationality and social labor in Marx

    Article • Critical Review, January 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  148. Adam Smith and Albert Einstein: The Aesthetic Principle of Truth

    Article • History of Economics Society Bulletin, January 1989, Cambridge University Press

    Elias Khalil

  149. Principles, rules and ideology

    Article • Forum for Social Economics, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  150. Ideas in Economics

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, April 1988, JSTOR

    Elias Khalil

  151. The Process of Capitalist Accumulation: A Review Essay of David Levine's Contribution

    Article • Review of Radical Political Economics, December 1987, SAGE Publications

    Elias Khalil

  152. Sir James Steuart vs. Professor James Buchanan: Critical notes on Modern Public Choice∗

    Article • Review of Social Economy, October 1987, Taylor & Francis

    Elias Khalil

  153. Kuhn, Lakatos, and the History of Economic Thought

    Article • International Journal of Social Economics, March 1987, Emerald

    Elias Khalil

  154. 3. Types of metaphors and identificational slips in economic discourse

    Article • Emerald

    Elias Khalil