Ontology and Economics

Foreword (Tony Lawson) Introduction: Lawson's Reorientation (Edward Fullbrook) 1. Some comments on Lawson's Reorienting Economics: same facts, different conclusions (Bruce Caldwell) 2. History, causal explanation and "basic economic reasoning": reply to Caldwell (Tony Lawson) 3. Critical Realism in Economics (Bjørn-Ivar Davidsen) 4. Underlabouring for substantive theorizing: reply to Davidsen (Tony Lawson) 5. The Nature of Heterodox Economics (John B. Davis) 6. Heterodox Economics and Pluralism: reply to Davis (Tony Lawson) 7. Reorienting Economics Through Triangulation of Methods (Paul Downward and Andrew Mearman) 8. Triangulation and social research: reply to Downward and Mearman (Tony Lawson) 9. Irrelevance and Ideology (Bernard Guerrien) 10. The mainstream orientation and ideology: reply to Guerrien (Tony Lawson) 11. On the problem of formalism in economics (Geoffrey M. Hodgson) 12. On the nature and rules of formalism in economics: reply to Hodgson (Tony Lawson) 13. Finding a critical pragmatism in Reorienting Economics (Bruce R. McFarling) 14. Ontology or epistemology?: reply to McFarling (Tony Lawson) 15. (Un)Real Criticism (David Ruccio) 16. Ontology and postmodernism: reply to Ruccio (Tony Lawson) 17. Feminism and Realism (Irene van Staveren) 18. Feminism, Realism and Essentialism: reply to van Staveren (Tony Lawson) 19. Conjectural revisionary ontology (Jack Vromen) 20. Provisionally grounded critical ontology: reply to Vromen (Tony Lawson)