05309oam 2200685I 450 991046525640332120200520144314.01-283-59046-897866139029170-203-92996-91-134-52595-810.4324/9780203929964 (CKB)2560000000092923(EBL)1020337(OCoLC)810086031(SSID)ssj0000711773(PQKBManifestationID)11428796(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711773(PQKBWorkID)10722532(PQKB)10700569(MiAaPQ)EBC1020337(PPN)181161532(Au-PeEL)EBL1020337(CaPaEBR)ebr10598520(CaONFJC)MIL390291(EXLCZ)99256000000009292320180331d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReorienting economics /Tony LawsonLondon ;New York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (405 p.)Economics as Social TheoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-25336-5 0-415-25335-7 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Front Cover; Reorienting Economics; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Part I: The current orientation of the discipline and the proposed alternative; 1. Four theses on the state of modern economics; Thesis 1; Deductivism; Thesis 2; Thesis 3; Ontology; Closed systems; Atomism and isolationism; A theory of social ontology; Fictions; Modelling successes; The nature of the argument; Thesis 4; Science; The mainstream project and science; Implications for the discipline of economics; 2. An ontological turn in economics; Context and philosophical methodContending approaches to economic methodologyCritical realism in economics; Transcendental analysis and social theory; Specific strategies; A theory of social ontology; Social rules; Social positions; Internal relationality; Transformation and reproduction; Reproduction over space and time; Emergence and process; Human being and subjectivity; Habitus; Consciousness; Agency/structure interaction; Forward-looking behaviour; Personal identities and meaning; Limitations of perspective; Implications of the ontological enquiry; Errors and dangers; Clarification; DirectionalityThe context of ontology3. What has realism got to do with it?; Realist as a contrast to non-realist; Realist: more rather than less; Competing programmes; The problem with modern mainstream economics; A realist alternative; The situation in 'economic methodology'; Hausman and economics; Hausman and critical realism; Concluding remarks; Part II: Possibilities for economics; 4. Explanatory method for social science; Conditions of social explanatory endeavour; Causal explanation and retroduction; The central problem of social explanation; A point of departure; Contrasts and interestAn illustrative exampleScientific experiments once more; Plant breeding; Conditions of possibility of successes; Moving towards the social domain; Contrast explanation; Initiating the explanatory process and interest relativity; Directing the explanatory process; Discriminating between causal hypotheses; Facilitating explanatory research in the social domain; A seemingly general explanatory model; Demi-regularities; Enduring or widespread social processes; The feasibility of social explanation; 5. An evolutionary economics? On borrowing fromevolutionary biologyThe allure of an evolutionary economicsThe biological and social connection; Evolutionary theory and metaphor; Advantages of the evolutionary model for social understanding:a preliminary orientation; The nature of social material; The biological model and mainstream economics; Natural selection; A biological example: the beaks of Darwin's finches; Towards a general evolutionary model; The PVRS model; The natural selection mechanism; Back to social processes; The PVRS evolutionary model as a transformational model ofsocial activityDisanalogies between evolutionary biology and evolutionarysocial scienceThis eagerly anticipated new book from Tony Lawson contends that economics can profit from a more explicit concern with ontology (enquiry into the nature of existence) than has been its custom. By admitting that economics is not exactly a picture of health at the moment, Lawson hopes that we can move away from the bafflingly intransigent belief that economics is at its core reliant upon mathematical modelling. This maths-envy is the reason why economics is in a state of such disarray. Far from being a polemic against the mainstream, this excellent new book is concerned that if economics is Economics as social theory.EconomicsElectronic books.Economics.330.1Lawson Tony.121754MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465256403321Reorienting economics755937UNINA