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Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics

Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics

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Series: Virtues and Economics, Book 5

PhilosophyEconomicsAnthropology

ISBN10: 3030261166
ISBN13: 9783030261160
Publisher: Springer
Published: Sep 11 2020
Pages: 171
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Preface.- Introduction.- Part I Theory.- Nadine Elzein: Free Will and Empirical Arguments for Epiphenomenalism.- Stephen Pratten: Causality, Agency and Change.- Jason Blakely: How Economics Becomes Ideology: The Uses and Abuses of Rational Choice Theory.- William Child: Economics, Agency, and Causal Explanation.- Part II Praxis.- Richard Conrad and Peter Hunter: Why Aquinas Would Agree That Human Economic Behaviour Is Largely Predictable.- Paul Clough: Agency, Time and Morality: An Argument from Social and Economic Anthropology.- Scott Meikle: The Switch from Agency to Causation in Marx.- Margaret S. Archer: Social Morphogenesis: Critical Realism's Explanatory Approach.- Jonathan Price: Grotius's Theological anthropology and modern contract doctrine.

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