Critical Realism in Economics: Development and Debate (Economics As Social Theory)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 13
Development......Page 16
Developments in economics as realist social theory......Page 18
The 'closure' assumption as a first step: neo-Ricardian economics and post-Keynesianism......Page 36
Realism, theory and individualism in the work of Carl Menger......Page 58
On Popper, probabilities and propensities......Page 78
Metaphor and critical realism......Page 98
Money is a social relation......Page 118
Debate......Page 140
Situating critical realism in economics......Page 142
Critical realism and economics: a causal holist critique......Page 152
Why the 'transcendental' in transcendental realism?......Page 166
Empirical realism as meta-method: Tony Lawson on neoclassical economics......Page 184
Against Eurocentred epistemologies: a critique of science, realism and economics......Page 202
Critical issues in economics as realist social theory......Page 224
Name index......Page 274
Subject index......Page 280