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Ontology
and Economics Tony
Lawson and his critics Edited
by Edward Fullbrook Foreword
ix TONY LAWSON Introduction:
Lawson’s reorientation 1 EDWARD
FULLBROOK 1 Some
comments on Lawson’s reorienting economics:
same facts, different conclusions 13 BRUCE
CALDWELL 2
History, causal explanation and ‘basic economic reasoning’:
reply to TONY LAWSON 3
Critical realism in economics: a different view 40 BJØRN-IVAR
DAVIDSEN 4 Underlabouring for substantive theorising: reply to Davidsen
58 TONY LAWSON 5 The nature
of heterodox economics 83 J O H N B . D A V I S 6
Heterodox economics and pluralism: reply to TONY
LAWSON 7 Reorienting economics through triangulation of methods 130 PAUL
DOWNWARD AND ANDREW MEARMAN 8 Triangulation and social research: reply to Downward and Mearman 142 TONY
LAWSON 9 Irrelevance and ideology 158 BERNARD
GUERRIEN 10 The mainstream orientation and ideology: reply to Guerrien 162 TONY
LAWSON 11 On the problem of formalism in economics 175 GEOFFREY
M. HODGSON 12 On the nature and roles of formalism in economics: reply to Hodgson 189 TONY
LAWSON 13 Finding a critical pragmatism in Reorienting Economics 232 BRUCE
R. MCFARLING 14 Ontology or epistemology? Reply to McFarling
240 TONY
LAWSON 15 (Un)real criticism 263 D
A V I D F . R U C C I O 16 Ontology and postmodernism: reply to Ruccio
275 TONY
LAWSON 17 Feminism and realism: a contested relationship 297 IRENE
VAN STAVEREN 18 Feminism, realism and essentialism: reply to van Staveren 311 TONY
LAWSON 19
Conjectural revisionary ontology 325 JACK VROMEN 20
Provisionally grounded critical ontology: reply to Vromen 335 TONY LAWSON Index 354 |
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Kindle Edition only Reviews "Tony
Lawson is famous for being the most powerful and effective critic of
mainstream economics. His criticism is made more effective by the fact that
he has an alternative conception of economics and indeed the rest of the
social sciences, a conception deriving from his ontological theorising. This
volume gives eleven important writers from a variety of fields and points of
view within economics a chance to appraise Lawson's work; and with his
replies the reader gets a deeper sense of Lawson's point of view and
achievement." John Searle, Slusser
Professor of Philosophy, "Over the
past 15 years, Tony Lawson's prosecution of a programme to establish a field
of social ontology has inspired leading post-positivist economists to think
anew about the ends, means, and possibilities of economics as a social
science. Much constructive dialogue and debate has been generated and
Ontology and Economics chronicles and extends these probing dialogues.
Lawson's fans and critics, and first-timers looking for a colourful snapshot
of the realist movement in contemporary economics, will find this an
immensely rewarding read." Rob Garnett, "This
collection of essays between Tony Lawson and his critics is an important
contribution to the ongoing critical discourse on ontology, realism and
heterodox economics. While the critics do have their say, Lawson's responses
convincingly demonstrate that his project in social ontology not only makes a
significant contribution to heterodox economics but also is indispensable for
its future development." Frederic S. Lee, Professor of Economics,
University of Missouri-Kansas City, |