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The 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.
Edited by John B. Davis, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Marquette University, US and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Alain Marciano, University of Turin, Italy and Jochen Runde, The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, UK
Contents: IntroductionPART I: POLITICAL ECONOMY AS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY1. Natural Law, Natural History and the Foundations of Political EconomyJosé Luís Cardoso2. The Historical and Philosophical Foundations of New Political Economy Alain Marciano3. Economic Rationality Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap4. From Imperialism to Inspiration: A Survey of Economics and PsychologyBruno S. Frey and Matthias Benz5. Institutional Economics: From Menger and Veblen to Coase and NorthGeoffrey M. Hodgson6. Taking Evolution Seriously: What Difference Does it Make for Economics?Jack J. Vromen7. Normative Economics and Theories of Distributive Justice Marc Fleurbaey8. Ideology: An Economic Point of View Alain LerouxPART II: THE METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ECONOMICS 9. The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes Roger E. Backhouse10. Constructivism: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge D. Wade Hands11. From Feminist Empiricism to Feminist Poststructuralism: Philosophical Questions in Feminist Economics Drucilla K. Barker12. Rhetoric and Postmodernism in Economics Robert F. Garnett, Jr.13. Models in Economics Marcel Boumans14. Formalism Peter Kesting and Arnis Vilks15. Methodological Individualism and Economics Harold KincaidPART 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 Lawson17. The Conflict Between Formalism and Realisticness in Modern Economics: The Case of the New Institutional Economics Stephen Pratten18. Structure and Agency in Economic Analysis: The Case of Austrian Economics and the Material Embeddedness of Socio-economic Life Paul A. Lewis19. Collective Intentionality, Complex Economic Behavior, and Valuation John B. Davis20. Decartes’ Legacy: Intersubjective Reality, Intrasubjective Theory Edward Fullbrook21. Information, Knowledge and Modelling Economic Agency Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde22. Conceptions of Probability Charles R. McCann, Jr.23. Money Geoffrey InghamIndex
'. . . 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.'