Profile

Hsiang-Ke Chao is Professor of Economics at National Tsing Hua University, and has been a visiting scholar at the Duke University, London School of Economics, the University of California at Davis, and Stanford University. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of models, model-based reasoning, and public policy. He is the author of Representation and Structure in Economics: The Methodology of Econometric Models of the Consumption Function (Routledge, 2009) and coeditor of Mechanism and Causality of Biology and Economics (Springer, 2013).

Selected Publication

Books

Philosophy of Science in Practice: Nancy Cartwright and the Nature of Scientific Reasoning, Springer, 2017 （主編，與 Julian Reiss 合編）

Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics, Springer, 2013（主編，與 Roberta Millstein 、S-T Chen 合編）

Representation and Structure in Economics: The Methodology of Econometric Models of the Consumption Function, Routledge, 2009.

Journal Articles

Two Types of Travelers in the History of the Transmission of Western Economic Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China. History of Political Economy, 2022.

Representation and Idealization: Diagrammatic Models in the Early Studies of the Spatial Structure of Periodic Markets in Rural China, East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 2020.

Inference to the Best Model of the Consumption Function, History of Political Economy, 2019.

Shaping Space through Diagrams: The Case of the History of Location Theory. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 2018.

Models and Credibility, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2014.

Beyond Carrot and Stick: The Political Economy of the U.S. Military Aids to China, 1945-1951, Journal of Modern Chinese History, 2011 （與林孝庭合著）. 

Research Interests

History and Methodology of Economics, Philosophy of Science, Modern Chinese History

Teaching

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