ABSTRACT
This intriguing new book examines and analyses the role of critical realism in economics and specifically how this line of thought can be applied to the real world. With contributions from such varying commentators as Sheila Dow, Wendy Olsen and Fred Lee, this new book is unique in its approach and will be of great interest to both economic methodologists and those involved in applied economic studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|66 pages
Overview
chapter 3|24 pages
Conceptualizing unemployment in a period of atypical employment
A critical realist approach1
part II|128 pages
Critical realism, formalism and empirical work
part |2 pages
chapter 7|18 pages
Critical realism and econometrics
Interaction between philosophy and Post Keynesian practice1
part |2 pages
part III|107 pages
Critical realism in empirical analysis
chapter 11|23 pages
Questionnaires in realist research
A case study of rural small-scale industry in Ghana
chapter 12|13 pages
Critical realism and applied work in economic history
Some methodological implications