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Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics

Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics

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This open access book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects (sometimes described as objects of nature and objects of thought) in the workings of causal and agency relationships. One of its important and possibly original conclusions is that causal and agency relationships do not encompass all of the dependent relationships encountered in social life. The idea that social reality is contingent has been known (and largely undisputed) at least since Wittgenstein’s “On Certainty”, but social science, and most notably economics has continued to operate on the basis of causal and agency theories borrowed or adapted from the natural sciences. This volume contains essays that retain and justify the partial or qualified use of this approach and essays that totally reject any use of causal and agency theory built on determined facts (closed systems).The rejection is based on the possibly original claim that, whereas causation in the objects of the natural sciences reside in their properties, human action is a matter of intentionality. It engages with critical realist theory and re-examines the role of free will in theories of human action in general and economic theory in particular.

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Keywords

  • Agency and Causation in Marx
  • anthropology
  • Argument from social and economic anthropology
  • Causality in nature as compared to social life
  • Consequences of the ontological differences
  • Critical Realism’s explanatory approach
  • Critical realist theory
  • Economic history
  • Economics
  • Economics, finance, business & management
  • Ethnology
  • Free Will & Empirical Arguments for Epiphenomenalism
  • Humanities
  • Nature of causation and agency in social life
  • Ontological difference between physical and social reality
  • Ontological differences between natural and social objects
  • Ontology
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophy and social sciences
  • Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
  • Predictable Human Economic Behaviour
  • Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
  • Social & political philosophy
  • Social causation and agency
  • Society & Social Sciences
  • Sociology
  • Sociology & anthropology
  • Stoic Economics
  • Uses and Abuses of Rational Choice Theory
  • Workings of causal and agency relationships

Links

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26114-6
web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-26114-6

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