Economics for Real

Table of contents

1. Front Cover
2. Economics for Real
3. Routledge INEM advances in economic methodology
4. Title Page
5. Copyright
6. Contents
7. List of figures and tables
8. List of contributors
9. Preface
10. Introduction
11. PART I Isolating truth in economic models
    1. 1 Saving truth for economics
    2. 2 The verisimilitude of economic models
    3. 3 Mäki’s MISS
    4. 4 Mäki’s three notions of isolation
    5. 5 Theoretical isolation and the dynamics of dispute: going beyond Mäki’s de-and re-isolation
12. PART II The commonsensical basis of economics
    1. 6 Are preferences for real? Choice theory, folk psychology, and the hard case for commonsensible realism
    2. 7 Realism, commonsensibles, and economics: the case of contemporary revealed preference theory
13. PART III The proper domain of economics
    1. 8 Mäki’s realism and the scope of economics
    2. 9 Mäki on economics imperialism
14. PART IV Rethinking realism(s)
    1. 10 Pragmatism, perspectival realism, and econometrics
    2. 11 Conversation, realism and inference: revisiting the rhetoric vs. realism dispute
    3. 12 How to be critical and realist about economics
15. Index