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Dr Don Ross
Biography
Name: Dr Don Ross
Contact: don.ross@ucc.ie
Role: Professor
Academic Unit: Philosophy
Don is Professor of Philosophy at UCC, Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, and Program Director for Methodology at the Centre for Economic Analysis of Risk at Georgia State University. Don’s research focuses on experimental studies of risk and time preferences, gambling disorders and policy, addiction, economic methodology, the economics of road transport networks in Africa, economic choice in socially intelligent non-human animals, and the metaphysical implications of science. Don has done, and still does, extensive policy consulting for South African government and industries.
Expertise
Publications
Ross, D., Sharp, C., Vuchinich, R., & Spurrett, D. Midbrain Mutiny: The Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling. MIT Press, 2008.
Ross, D., Philosophy of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Harrison, G., & Ross, D., Varieties of paternalism and the heterogeneity of utility structures. Journal of Economic Methodology 25: 42-67.
Ross, D. Decision-making and substance abuse: A South African perspective. In G. Ellis, D. Stein, K. Thomas and E. Meintjes, eds., Substance use and abuse in South Africa. Cape Town: UCT Press, 2012, pp. 185-200.
Ross, D., Syndrome stabilization in psychiatry: Pathological gambling as a case study. In H. Kincaid & J. Sullivan, eds., Classifying Psychopathology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014, pp. 195-208.