Agency and causal explanation in economics. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, editors.
• Editors: (Professor), Róna, Peter; Zsolnai, László
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 171 pages. 2 illustrations)
• Subjects: 330; Economics -- Philosophy; Ontology; History of Economic Thought/Methodology; Social Anthropology; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Sociological Theory; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030261146
• Related ISBNs: 303026114X; 9783030261139
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 11, 2019).
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