Recent developments in economic methodology: The rhetorical and ontological turns [Book Review]

Foundations of Science 8 (1):51-68 (2003)
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Abstract

Recent developments in themethodology of economics have drawn uponpragmatist and realist philosophies of socialscience. These recent developments areoutlined. It is argued that a specific variantof realist philosophy known as critical realismcan provide the basis for a prescriptiveeconomic methodology that is not susceptible topragmatist criticisms.

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Economics and reality.Tony Lawson - 1997 - New York: Routledge.
A Realist Theory of Science.Roy Bhaskar - 1975 - New York: Routledge.
The Rhetoric of Economics.Deirdre N. Mccloskey - 1986 - Brighton, Sussex : Wheatsheaf Books.

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