Critical realism in economics : development and debate / edited by Steve Fleetwood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fleetwood, Steve, 1955-

Series:

Economics as social theory.

Economics as social theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Methodology.

Economics.

Economics--Philosophy.

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Critical realism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 273 p.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on the fields of economic methodology and economic theory, this title opens up new forms of investigation in economics and transforms the nature of economic reasoning. The work combines contributions from authors critical of this approach with those who are concerned to clarify its full implications for contemporary economics. This is a vol

Contents:

part Part I DEVELOPMENT

chapter 1 DEVELOPMENTS IN ECONOMICS AS REALIST SOCIAL THEORY / TONY LAWSON

chapter 2 THE CLOSURE ASSUMPTION AS A FIRST STEP

Neo-Ricardian economics and Post-Keynesianism / Stephen Pratten

chapter 3 REALISM, THEORY AND INDIVIDUALISM IN THE WORK OF CARL MENGER / Clive Lawson

chapter 4 ON POPPER, PROBABILITIES AND PROPENSITIES / Jochen Runde

chapter 5 METAPHOR AND CRITICAL REALISM / PAUL LEWIS

chapter 6 Money is a socialrelation / Geoffrey Ingham

part Part II DEBATE

chapter 7 SITUATING CRITICAL REALISM IN ECONOMICS / Steve Fleetwood

chapter 8 Critical realism and economics: a causal holist critique / Thomas A.Boylan and Paschal F.O'German

chapter 9 WHY THE TRANSCENDENTAL IN TRANSCENDENTAL REALISM? / Stephen D. Parsons

chapter 10 Empirical realism as meta-method: Tony Lawson on neoclassical economics / D. Wade Hands

chapter 11 Against Eurocentred epistemologies: a critique of science, realism and economics / Rajani Kanth

chapter 12 CRITICAL ISSUES IN ECONOMICS AS REALIST SOCIAL THEORY / TONY LAWSON.

Notes:

A selection of articles previously published in the Review of social economy (1996) and in Ekonomia (1997), with an introduction by the editor.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-134-64536-8

0-429-23228-4

0-203-45580-0

0-585-45353-5

1-280-31729-9

1-134-64537-6

9780429232282

OCLC:

252768290