ABSTRACT
This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Mäki’s realist philosophy of economics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|94 pages
Isolating truth in economic models
chapter 5|23 pages
Theoretical isolation and the dynamics of dispute
Going beyond Mäki's de-and re-isolation
1
part II|44 pages
The commonsensical basis of economics
chapter 6|19 pages
Are preferences for real?
Choice theory, folk psychology, and the hard case for commonsensible realism
1
chapter 7|23 pages
Realism, commonsensibles, and economics
The case of contemporary revealed preference theory
1
part III|41 pages
The proper domain of economics
part IV|53 pages
Rethinking realism(s)
