Dr. Halliday is an Associate Research Professor and Associate Director at the Center for Economy and Society (CES) in the SNF Agora Institute where he co-leads the new BA in Moral and Political Economy major.
Dr. Halliday conducts research in behavioral and experimental economics, with a focus on social preferences (reciprocity and social norms) and institutions (ratings, punishment, communication). He also does work economics education, and he has co-authored (with Samuel Bowles) an intermediate-level microeconomics textbook: Microeconomics: Competition, Conflict, and Coordination (OUP, 2022). Simon is also the co-leader of the enCOREage Project. In a new textbook for introductory economics students, Understanding the Economy, the enCOREage team will introduce content that draws students in because it addresses societal problems that students care about while building employability skills, belonging, and inclusion into the curriculum. He is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (2023-2025)