Economics and RealityRoutledge, 1997 M01 2 - 384 páginas 'No reality please. We're economists'. There is a wide spread belief that modern economics is irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. In a controversial and original study, Tony Lawson argues that the root of this irrelevance is in the failure of economists to find methods and tools which are appropriate for the social world it addresses |
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ENDURING TENSIONS AS POINTS OF DEPARTURE 3581 | 11 |
THE CASE FOR TRANSCENDENTAL REALISM | 27 |
THE LEGACY OF POSITIVISM | 36 |
THE NATURE OF THE ARGUMENT | 43 |
TOWARDS A RICHER ONTOLOGY | 62 |
ECONOMETRICS | 69 |
ECONOMIC THEORY | 86 |
ALTERNATIVES ANDOR PRELIMINARIES | 108 |
BROAD OBJECTIVES AND POSSIBLE OBSTACLES | 191 |
ECONOMIC SCIENCE WITHOUT | 199 |
ABSTRACTION | 227 |
ON TRUTH IN ECONOMICS | 238 |
ILLUSTRATION | 247 |
ECONOMIC POLICY AND INTENDED CHANGE | 275 |
ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND PREDICTION | 282 |
Notes | 290 |
SUBJECTIVISM | 134 |
THE LIMITS OF CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS | 152 |
A SKETCH OF THE ACTING SUBJECT | 174 |
Bibliography | 335 |
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