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2004
The Elgar Companion to Economics and
Philosophy
John B. Davis
Marquette University, [email protected]
Alain Marciano
Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne
Jochen Runde
University of Cambridge
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Davis, John B.; Marciano, Alain; and Runde, Jochen, "The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy" (2004). Books by
Marquette University Faculty. Book 234.
http://epublications.marquette.edu/marq_fac-book/234
The Elgar Companion to
Economics and Philosophy
Edited by
John B. Davis
Universily of AlIl~·lerd(llII. The Netherlands and
Marqllelle Ulliversity. US
Alain Marciano
Univers ily of ReilllS Champagne Ardenne (OMI-EO}),
Celllre NaTional (Ie fa Recherche Scielllijiqlle (GREQAM - Aix
Marseille) and II/Sf/TIlt d' £Collolll ie PI/bliqlle, France
lochen Runde
TIle Judge II/s/illlle of Mal/agemelll. Ulliver.\'ily of Cambridge.
UK
Edward Elgar
Che ltenham. UK ' Norlhampl Oo. MA, USA
Contents
Contributors
[nlroducllon
PART I
xii
POLITICAL ECONO:-.tY AS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Na lura l la "'. naluI1d hislory and Ihe foundalion5 of polilical
economy
Jose u/[s Cardoso
2 TIle hi storical and phi losophical foundations of new poht ical
economy
Alain Marciano
3 Economic mlionality
Shoun P. Hargreaves Heap
4 From imperialism 10 inspiration: a surve y of economics and
psychology
Bruno S . Frey and Mal/hias Benz
5 Insli lulional economics: from Menger and Veblen 10 Coase
and Nonh
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
6 Taking el'olU!ion serioll~l y: what difference docs it make for
economics?
Jack J. Vromen
7 Nomlali"e economics and theories of distributivc justicc
M(Ifc Fleurbaey
8 Ideology: an economic point of "iew
Alain Leroux
Pt\RT II
" II
3
24
42
61
102
132
159
THE 1>'IETI-fOOOLOGY Al\'D EPISTEMOLOGY OF
ECONOMICS
9
The melhodology of sc ientific re searc h programme s
Roger E . Backhouse
10 Cons lrueti"ism ' lbc social cons lmction of seicnlific },;nowledge
D. Wade Hands
I I From feminist empiri cism 10 femini sl poslslruelur"lism:
philosophical questions in feminist economics
Drucilla K. Barker
181
197
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The Elgar companion /0 economics and philosophy
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Rhetoric and posllnodcmi sm in economics
Robert F. Gamel/. Jr.
13 /l.lodcls in economic s
Marcel Boumans
14 Fonnalism
Peter Kesling and Am is \/ilks
15 ~'lc(bodolO!;i ca l indi vid ualis m and ccollomi cs
Harold Kincaid
PART III
23 1
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299
SOC IAL m ·r rOLOGY AND THE ONr OLOG Y OF
ECONOMICS
16
Philosophical unde r-Iabowing in lhe cont ext of mode m economics:
aiming at truth and usefulness in the meanest of wa ys
Tony Lawson
17 The conn ie! between formali sm and rcali sti cncss in modem
economi cs: lhe case of the new institutional economics
Slephen Prallen
HI Structure and agency in economic analysis: the case of Austrian
economics and the materi al cmbcddcdncss of socio-(!couomif.: life
Paul A. Lewis
19 Collec tive intentionali ty. complex economic behavior.
and valuat ion
John B. Davis
20 Descartes' legacy: intersubjecli,·c reality. intmsubjcc tive theory
Edward Fullbrook
21 IufonnatioTl. I.:n owlcdge and modelling economic agency
Philip Faulkller and Jochell Runde
22 Conceptions of probability
Charles R. McCanll. Jr.
23 ~'Ioncy
Geoffrey Ingham
Illdex
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364
386
403
465
489