| Economics and Reality (Economics & Social Theory) |
 enlarge | Author: Tony Lawson
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 273625
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 388
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0415154219
Dewey Decimal Number: 330
EAN: 9780415154215
ASIN: 0415154219
Publication Date: January 2, 1997
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Economics should not be the same after this book September 19, 2002
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
The current goals and methods of economics are inadequate to the very nature of their object of study. They consider the world we live in as a closed, determinist world composed of events linked together by relations of correlation.
Tony Lawson's lucid scrutiny reveals that the world we live in is open and contingent. Moreover, it is composed of events but also of phenomena (what we actually measure) and of mechanisms (that allow events to happen). Acknowledging these considerations as a first start, Tony Lawson draws what should be an adequate science of economics, ie a science whose purpose is to explain (not predict) the events under scrutiny in terms of deep mechanisms.
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