ABSTRACT
Contemporary economics is characterized by a mismatch between its methods of analysis and the nature of the world it seeks to interpret. Despite regular economic crises and ongoing critique of the discipline, the drift from political economy into applied mathematics appears to continue unabated. In this book, Tony Lawson advocates a relignment of economics with social reality.
In analyzing mainstream economists' misplaced universality, the author places ontology at the heart of a reoriented future in which economics is integrated within the wider human and social sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |75 pages
The Current Orientation of the Discipline and the Proposed Alternative
chapter |25 pages
Four Theses on the State of Modern Economics
chapter |35 pages
An Ontological Turn in Economics
chapter |13 pages
What has Realism got to do with it? 1
part |88 pages
Possibilities for Economics
chapter |31 pages
Explanatory Method for Social Science
chapter |24 pages
Economics as a Distinct Social Science?
part |80 pages
Heterodox Traditions of Modern Economics
chapter |34 pages
Institutional Economics and Realist Social Theorising
chapter |27 pages
Feminism, Realism and Universalism 1
part |38 pages
A Historical Perspective on Economic Practice