Transforming economics : perspectives on the critical realist project / / edited by Paul Lewis

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Disciplina: 330/.01
• Soggetto topico: Economics - Methodology; Critical realism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LewisPaul <1971->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Transforming economics? On heterodox economics and the ontological turn in economic methodology; 2. Transforming Post Keynsian economics: critical realism and the Post Keynesian project; 3. Macroeconomic theory, (critical) realism and capitalism; 4. Critical Realism and Transformational Growth; 5. Critical realism and econometrics: an econometrician's viewpoint; 6. Critical realism and feminist economics: how Well do they get along? ; 7. The agency-structure model and the embedded individual in heterodox economics8. Critical realism and the heterodox tradition in economics; 9. Economics as Social Theory and the New Economic Sociology; 10. The really real in economics; 11. Addressing the critical and the real in critical realism; 12. Economics as symptom; 13. The Economics of Institutions and the Institutions of Economics; 14. A note on critical realism, scientific exegesis and Schumpeter; 15. Transforming methodology: critical realism and recent economic methodology; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Economics has become polarised. On the one hand there is a body of economists who concern themselves with progressing their discipline via an increasing use of mathematical modelling. On the other hand, there are economists who believe passionately that in order for economics to be useful it needs to take account of its history, its impact on society and its real world applications.The contributors to this book fix their scholarly glare on the heterodox section of economics, and in particular upon critical realist approaches to the subject. Experts from a variety of perspectives have c
• Titolo autorizzato: Transforming economics
• ISBN: 0-203-69418-X; 1-134-20178-8; 1-280-10181-4; 0-203-41726-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458014003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Economics as social theory.