Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics (Virtues and Economics)

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030261166
• ISBN13: 9783030261160
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"