Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics
This open access book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects (sometimes described as objects of nature and objects of thought) in the workings of causal and agency relationships. One of its important and possibly original conclus...
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| Formato: | Electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cham
Springer Nature
2020
Cham : 2020. |
| Edición: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Colección: | Virtues and Economics,
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430274006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Theory
- Nadine Elzein: Free Will and Empirical Arguments for Epiphenomenalism
- Stephen Pratten: Causality, Agency and Change
- Jason Blakely: How Economics Becomes Ideology: The Uses and Abuses of Rational Choice Theory
- William Child: Economics, Agency, and Causal Explanation
- Part II Praxis
- Richard Conrad and Peter Hunter: Why Aquinas Would Agree That Human Economic Behaviour Is Largely Predictable
- Paul Clough: Agency, Time and Morality: An Argument from Social and Economic Anthropology
- Scott Meikle: The Switch from Agency to Causation in Marx
- Margaret S. Archer: Social Morphogenesis: Critical Realism’s Explanatory Approach
- Jonathan Price: Grotius’s Theological anthropology and modern contract doctrine.
