Economics for Real

Introduction: Uskali Maeki's realist philosophy of economics Aki Lehtinen (Univ. of Helsinki) Part I Isolating Truth in Economic Models 1 Saving Truth for Economics Frank Hindriks (Univ. of Groningen) 2 The verisimilitude of economic models Ilkka Niiniluoto (Univ. of Helsinki) 3 Maeki's MISS Daniel Hausman (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) 4 Models as isolators: for and against Till Gruene-Yanoff (Univ. of Helsinki) 5 Isolated economic mechanisms: motivational crowding, multi-argument utility-functions and mixing mechanisms Jack Vromen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Part II The Commonsensical Basis of Economics 6 Realism, Commonsensibles, and Economics: The Case of Contemporary Revealed Preference Theory D. Wade Hands (Univ. of Puget Sound) 7 Are Preferences for Real? Choice Theory, Folk Psychology, and the Hard Case for Commonsensible Realism Francesco Guala (Univ. of Milan) Part III The proper domain of economics 8 Maeki's realism and the scope of economics Don Ross (Univ. of Cape Town) 9 Maeki on Economics Imperialism John Davis (Univ. of Amsterdam) Part IV Rethinking Realism(s) 10 Pragmatism, Perspectival Realism, and Econometrics Kevin Hoover (Duke University) 11 Getting Real with the Critical Petri Ylikoski and Jaakko Kuorikoski (Univ. of Helsinki) 12 Realism, conversation and inference Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (UNED, Madrid)