LEADER 05340oam 2200697I 450 001 9910792099303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-52594-X 010 $a1-283-59046-8 010 $a9786613902917 010 $a0-203-92996-9 010 $a1-134-52595-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203929964 035 $a(CKB)2560000000092923 035 $a(EBL)1020337 035 $a(OCoLC)810086031 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000711773 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11428796 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711773 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10722532 035 $a(PQKB)10700569 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1020337 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1020337 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10598520 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL390291 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB131143 035 $a(PPN)181161532 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000092923 100 $a20180331d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReorienting economics /$fTony Lawson 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (405 p.) 225 1 $aEconomics as Social Theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-25336-5 311 $a0-415-25335-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aFront 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 method 327 $aContending 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; Directionality 327 $aThe 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 interest 327 $aAn 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 biology 327 $aThe 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 activity 327 $aDisanalogies between evolutionary biology and evolutionarysocial science 330 $aThis eagerly anticipated new book from Tony Lawson contends that economics can profit from a more explicit concern with ontology (enquiry into the nature of existence) than has been its custom. By admitting that economics is not exactly a picture of health at the moment, Lawson hopes that we can move away from the bafflingly intransigent belief that economics is at its core reliant upon mathematical modelling. This maths-envy is the reason why economics is in a state of such disarray. Far from being a polemic against the mainstream, this excellent new book is concerned that if economics is 410 0$aEconomics as social theory. 606 $aEconomics 615 0$aEconomics. 676 $a330.1 700 $aLawson$b Tony.$0121754 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792099303321 996 $aReorienting economics$9755937 997 $aUNINA