Critical realism in economics : development and debate / edited and preface by Steve Fleetwood ; contributors Thomas A. Boylan, D. Wade Hands, Geoffrey Ingham, Rajani Kanth, Clive Lawson, Tony Lawson, Paul Lewis, Paschal F. O´Gorman, Stephen D. Parsons, Stephen Pratten and Jochen Runde.

Notes on contributors, ix -- Preface, xii -- Part I. Development, 1 -- 1. Developments in economics as realist social theory / Tony Lawson, 3 -- 2. The closure assumption as a first step: neo-Ricardian economics and post-Keynesianism / Stephen Pratten, 21 -- 3. Realism, theory and individualism in the work of Carl Menger / Clive Lawson, 43 -- 4. On Popper, probabilities and propensities / Jochen Runde, 63 -- 5. Metaphor and critical realism / Paul Lewis, 83 -- 6. Money is a social relation / Geoffrey Ingham, 103 -- Part II. Debate, 125 -- 7. Situating critical realism in economics / Steve Fleetwood, 127 -- 8. Critical realism and economics: a causal holist critique / Thomas A. Boylan and Paschal F. O'Gorman, 137 -- 9. Why the 'transcendental' in transcendental realism? / Stephen D. Parsons, 151 -- 10. Empirical realism as meta-method: Tony Lawson on neoclassical economics / D. Wade Hands, 169 -- 11. Against Eurocentred epistemologies: a critique of science, realism and economics / Rajani kanth, 187 -- 12. Critical issues in economics as realist social theory / Tony Lawson, 209 -- Bibliography, 255 -- Name index, 259 -- Subject index, 265.