PPE Talk: “What is Economics Good For?” with Tyler Curtain and Alexander Rosenberg

Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy and chair of the philosophy department at Duke University. He is the author of “Economics — Mathematical Poli- tics or Science of Diminishing Returns,” most recently, “The Atheist’s Guide to Reality.”

Tyler Curtain is a philosopher of science and an associate professor of English and comparative literature the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was recently named the 2013 recipient of the Robert Frost Distinguished Chair of Literature at the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, Vt.