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Book SynopsisThe
Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy aims to demonstrate exactly how these two important areas have always been linked, and to illustrate the key areas of overlap.
The Companion is divided into distinct parts, each of which highlights a leading area of scholarly concern: political economy conceived as social philosophy; the methodology and epistemology of economics; and social ontology and the ontology of economics. The contributors are well-known and distinguished authors from a variety of disciplines, who have been invited both to survey and to provide a personal assessment of current and prospective future states of their respective areas of philosophical interest.
Academics and students who have an interest in economics and philosophy, political philosophy and the history of ideas will find this book of great appeal, as will researchers working in the field and readers interested in the nature of the discipline of economics.
Trade Review'. . . there are many first-rate contributions here. Those contributions make this collection valuable especially to readers who are already knowledgeable about the various areas in which the interests of philosophers and economists overlap.' -- Daniel M. Hausman, Journal of Economic Methodology
'The Elgar Companion To Economics and Philosophy
is a very good read. Every library should buy it now.' -- John King, History of Economics Review
'The volume collects articles surveying developments in such related fields as economic methodology, ethics, epistemology, and social ontology. Many of the articles are forward-looking, and as such constitute substantive and original (and at times provocative) contributions to the literature. The volume as a whole is a success; the editors are to be congratulated for their efforts.' -- Bruce J. Caldwell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, US
'This Companion
is called economics and philosophy but actually it is about the philosophy of economics and all the great questions in the subject are here. The weather in the philosophy of economics has been stormy lately and the climate continues to this day to be unsettled. Will the storms soon settle down to give way to calmer days? Read this excellent collection of informative papers in the field to stimulate your own answer to that question.' -- The late Mark Blaug, formerly of the University of London and University of Buckingham, UK
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I: POLITICAL ECONOMY AS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 1. Natural Law, Natural History and the Foundations of Political Economy José Luís Cardoso 2. The Historical and Philosophical Foundations of New Political Economy Alain Marciano 3. Economic Rationality Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap 4. From Imperialism to Inspiration: A Survey of Economics and Psychology Bruno S. Frey and Matthias Benz 5. Institutional Economics: From Menger and Veblen to Coase and North Geoffrey M. Hodgson 6. Taking Evolution Seriously: What Difference Does it Make for Economics? Jack J. Vromen 7. Normative Economics and Theories of Distributive Justice Marc Fleurbaey 8. Ideology: An Economic Point of View Alain Leroux PART II: THE METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ECONOMICS 9. The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes Roger E. Backhouse 10. Constructivism: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge D. Wade Hands 11. From Feminist Empiricism to Feminist Poststructuralism: Philosophical Questions in Feminist Economics Drucilla K. Barker 12. Rhetoric and Postmodernism in Economics Robert F. Garnett, Jr. 13. Models in Economics Marcel Boumans 14. Formalism Peter Kesting and Arnis Vilks 15. Methodological Individualism and Economics Harold Kincaid PART III: SOCIAL ONTOLOGY AND THE ONTOLOGY OF ECONOMICS 16. Philosophical Under-Labouring in the Context of Modern Economics: Aiming at Truth and Usefulness in the Meanest of Ways Tony Lawson 17. The Conflict Between Formalism and Realisticness in Modern Economics: The Case of the New Institutional Economics Stephen Pratten 18. Structure and Agency in Economic Analysis: The Case of Austrian Economics and the Material Embeddedness of Socio-economic Life Paul A. Lewis 19. Collective Intentionality, Complex Economic Behavior, and Valuation John B. Davis 20. Decartes’ Legacy: Intersubjective Reality, Intrasubjective Theory Edward Fullbrook 21. Information, Knowledge and Modelling Economic Agency Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde 22. Conceptions of Probability Charles R. McCann, Jr. 23. Money Geoffrey Ingham Index
