Kevin Quinn, Ph.D.

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Kevin Quinn

  • Position: Professor
  • Phone: 419-372-8652
  • Email: kquinn@bgsu.edu
  • Address: 303 Maurer Center

My research is in the areas of economic philosophy and the history of economic thought. In the first category, I am working on the implications of moral and normative realism ( a position I now consider to be correct, as against either Humean or Kantian forms of moral subjectivism) for economic methodology. Related work investigates the relationship between reason and morality in the German Idealist tradition and attempts to draw lessons from this body of work for the very different approach to rationality taken by modern economics.

In the history of thought, I am working on the Enlightenment campaign against "enthusiasm" and how this informs the Liberalism of Hume and Smith particularly. State action in pursuit of this goal doesn't conform to the Classical Liberal prescription that the State ought to be neutral with respect to views of the Good Life.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Economics, The American University, 1989

B.A., Philosophy, University of Maryland, 1978

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Associate Professor of Economics, Bowling Green State University, 1996-present

Assistant Professor of Economics, Bowling Green State University, 1990-1996

Instructor, The American University, Washington, D.C., 1984-1988

Instructor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland, 1982-1984

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Economist, the Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., 1989-1990

  • Economic Philosophy and Methodology
  • Economics and Ethics
  • Macroeconomic Theory
  • Monetary Theory
  • History of Macroeconomic Thought

Quinn, J. K. (2021). Knowledge and Humanity: The History of Economic Thought as a Refined Liberal Art. EconJournal Watch.

Quinn, J. K., Cho, S., Brison, N., & Brown, K. (2021). A Theoretical Explanation of Sport Trademark Litigation: Already v. Nike and Forever 21 v. Adidas. Journal of Global Sport Management.

Quinn, J. K. (2021). Knowledge and Humanity: The History of Economic Thought as a Refined Liberal Art. Econ Journal Watch18(1).

Quinn, J. K., Cho, S., Brison, N., & Brown, K. (2020). "A Theoretical Explanation of Sport Trademark Litigation: Already v. Nike and Forever 21 v. Adidas" Journal of Global Sport Management.

Quinn, J. K. (2019). Was Smith a Moral Subjectivist. Economic Thought8(1).

Quinn, K. (2019). Was Smith A Moral Subjectivist. Economic Thought8(1), 30–39.

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