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    Causality, Agency and Change

    Mainstream economists intermittently recognise a dilemma at the core of their project. On occasion they note that the widely accepted intuition that people have real choice and agency is inconsistent with thei...

    Stephen Pratten in Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics (2020)

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    Positioning and the Nature of Social Objects

    In opposition to the ontological neglect that characterizes so much economics a group of researchers based in Cambridge in the UK argue that method and substantive theory can benefit if informed by explicit, s...

    Stephen Pratten in Economic Objects and the Objects of Economics (2018)

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    The scope of ontological theorising

    In recent years there have been an increasing number of contributions to economic methodology that develop or seek to reveal ontological positions. Despite this there is no agreement about either what ontology...

    Stephen Pratten in Foundations of Science (2007)