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Email:	Tony.Lawson@econ.cam.ac.uk
Interests:	Economic Methodology; Epistemological Issues in Social Science; Ethics, especially Moral Realism; Evolutionary Economics; Feminist Economics; Feminist Epistemology; Gender Studies; Heterodox Economics; History of Economic Thought; Methods of Social Scientific Explanation; Ontology, especially Social Ontology; Philosophical Realism.

ECONOMICS AS SOCIAL THEORY

Series edited by Tony Lawson

Social theory is experiencing something of a revival within economics. Critical analyses of the particular nature of the subject matter of social studies and of the types of method, categories and modes of explanation that can legitimately be endorsed for the scientific study of social objects, are re-emerging. Economists are again addressing such issues as the relationship between agency and structure, between the economy and the rest of society, and between inquirer and the object of inquiry. There is renewed interest in elaborating basic categories such as causation, competition, culture, discrimination,evolution, money, need, order, organisation, power, probability, process, rationality, technology, time, truth, uncertainty and value, etc.

The objective for this series is to facilitate this revival further. In contemporary economics the label `theory' has been appropriated by a group that confines itself to largely a-social, a-historical, mathematical `modelling'. Economics as Social Theory thus reclaims the `theory' label, offering a platform for alternative, rigorous, but broader and more critical conceptions of theorising.

Titles in this series include:

ECONOMICS AND LANGUAGE Edited by Willie Henderson

RATIONALITY, INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY
Edited by Uskali Mäki, Bo Gustafsson and Christian Knudson

NEW DIRECTIONS IN ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY
Edited by Roger Backhouse

WHO PAYS FOR THE KIDS? Nancy Folbre

RULES AND CHOICE IN ECONOMICS Viktor Vanberg

BEYOND RHETORIC AND REALISM IN ECONOMICS
Thomas A. Boylan and Paschal F. O'Gorman

FEMINISM, OBJECTIVITY AND ECONOMICS Julie A. Nelson

ECONOMIC EVOLUTION Jack J. Vromen

ECONOMICS AND REALITY Tony Lawson

THE MARKET: ETHICS, KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS John O'Neill

ECONOMICS AND UTOPIA Geoffrey M. Hodgson

CRITICAL REALISM IN ECONOMICS Edited by Steve Fleetwood

THE NEW ECONOMIC CRITICISM Edited by Martha Woodmansee and Mark Osteen

WHAT DO ECONOMISTS KNOW? NEW ECONOMICS OF KNOWLEDGE
Edited by Robert F Garnett

POSTMODERNISM, ECONOMICS AND KNOWLEDGE
Edited by Stephen Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio and David Rucio

THE VALUES OF ECONOMICS: AN ARISTOTELIAN PERSPECTIVE
Irene van Staveren

HOW ECONOMICS FORGOT HISTORY:
THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL SPECIFICITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
Geoffrey M. Hodgson

INTERSUBJECTIVITY IN ECONOMICS: AGENTS AND STRUCTURES
Edited by Edward Fullbrook

THE WORLD OF CONSUMPTION: THE MATERIAL AND THE CULTURAL REVISITED
Ben Fine

REORIENTING ECONOMICS Tony Lawson

TOWARDS A FEMINIST PHIOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS
Edited by Drucilla Barker and Edith Kuiper

THE CRISIS IN ECONOMICS Edited by Edward Fullbrook

THE PHILOSOPHY OF KEYNES' ECONOMICS: PROBABILITY, UNCERTAINTY AND CONVENTION
Edited by Jochen Runde and Sohei Mizuhara

All books in the series are published by Routledge

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