ABSTRACT
The aim in what follows is basically two-fold. I want first to sketch a brief overview of, and to argue for, a philosophical perspective recently systematized as transcendental realism or, in the context of the social realm specifically, as critical realism. I intend, second, to indicate why and how I think that the perspective in question can facilitate a more relevant economics than is currently available or is even possible within the confines of the (relatively unquestioned) explanatory norms and criteria of the contemporary economics discipline.
