Series edited by Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
Social Theory is experiencing something of a revival within economics. Critical analyses of the particular nature of the subject matter of social studies, and of the types of method, categories and modes of explanation that can legitimately be endorsed for the scientific study of social objects, are re-emerging. Economists are again addressing such issues as the relationship between agency and structure, between economy and the rest of society, and between the enquirer and the object of enquiry. There is a renewed interest in elaborating basic categories such as causation, competition, culture, discrimination, evolution, money, need, order, organization, power probability, process, rationality, technology, time, truth, uncertainty, value etc.
The objective for this series is to facilitate this revival further. In contemporary economics the label “theory” has been appropriated by a group that confines itself to largely asocial, ahistorical, mathematical “modelling”. Economics as Social Theory thus reclaims the “Theory” label, offering a platform for alternative rigorous, but broader and more critical conceptions of theorizing.
Other titles in this series include:
1. Economics and Language
Edited by Willie Henderson
2. Rationality, Institutions and Economic Methodology
Edited by Uskali Mäki, Bo Gustafsson, and Christian Knudsen
3. New Directions in Economic Methodology
Edited by Roger Backhouse
4. Who Pays for the Kids?
Nancy Folbre
5. Rules and Choice in Economics
Viktor Vanberg
6. Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics
Thomas A. Boylan and Paschal F. O’Gorman
7. Feminism, Objectivity and Economics
Julie A. Nelson
8. Economic Evolution
Jack J. Vromen
9. Economics and Reality
Tony Lawson
10. The Market
John O’ Neill
11. Economics and Utopia
Geoff Hodgson
12. Critical Realism in Economics
Edited by Steve Fleetwood
13. The New Economic Criticism
Edited by Martha Woodmansee and Mark Osteeen
14. What do Economists Know?
Edited by Robert F. Garnett, Jr.
15. Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge
Edited by Stephen Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio and David F. Ruccio
16. The Values of Economics
An Aristotelian perspective
Irene van Staveren
17. How Economics Forgot History
The problem of historical specificity in social science
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
18. Intersubjectivity in Economics
Agents and structures
Edward Fullbrook
19. The World of Consumption
The material and cultural revisited 2nd edn
Ben Fine
20. Reorienting Economics
Tony Lawson
21. Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics
Edited by Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper
22. The Crisis in Economics
Edited by Edward Fullbrook
23. The Philosophy of Keynes’ Economics
Probability, uncertainty and convention
Edited by Jochen Runde and Sohei Mizuhara
24. Postcolonialism Meets Economics
Edited by Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin and S. Charusheela
25. The Evolution of Institutional Economics
Agency, structure and Darwinism in American institutionalism
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
26. Transforming Economics
Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project
Edited by Paul Lewis
27. New Departures in Marxian Theory
Edited by Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff
28. Markets, Deliberation and Environmental Value
John O’Neill
29. Speaking of Economics
How to get in the conversation
Arjo Klamer
30. From Political Economy to Economics
Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory
Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine
31. From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics
The shifting boundaries between economics and other social sciences
Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine
32. Development and Globalization
A Marxian class analysis
David Ruccio
33. Introducing Money
Mark Peacock
34. The Cambridge Revival of Political Economy
Nuno Ornelas Martins
35. Understanding Development Economics
Its challenge to development studies
Adam Fforde
36. Economic Methodology
An historical introduction
Harro Maas, Translated by Liz Waters
37. Social Ontology and Modern Economics
Stephen Pratten
38. History of Financial Crises
Dreams and follies of expectations
Cihan Bilginsoy
39. Commerce and Community
Ecologies of social cooperation
Edited by Robert F. Garnett, Jr., Paul Lewis and Lenore T. Ealy