Ontology and Economics: Tony Lawson and His Critics

by Edward Fullbrook

Book Overview

Tony Lawson has become a major figure of intellectual controversy on the back of juxtaposing two relatively simple and seemingly innocuous ideas. He has argued firstly that success in science depends on finding and using methods, including modes of reasoning, appropriate to the nature of the phenomena being studied, and also that there are important differences between the nature of the objects of study of natural sciences and those of social science...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415476135
• ISBN13: 9780415476133
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"