Tony Lawson and His Critics

editor: Edward Fullbrook

publisher: University of Michigan Press

forthcoming late 2007

 

CONTENTS

 

Introduction

Edward Fullbrook  (University of the West of England)         

 

Some Comments on Lawson’s Reorienting Economics:
Same Facts, Different Conclusions

Bruce Caldwell   (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)           

            Lawson’s Reply

 

Irrelevance and Ideology

Bernard Guerrien   (Université Paris 1, France)           
               
Lawson’s Reply


On the Problem of Formalism in Economics
Geoffrey M. Hodgson   (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

            Lawson’s Reply

 

Finding a Critical Pragmatism in Reorienting Economics

Bruce R. McFarling   (University of Newcastle, Australia) 

            Lawson’s Reply

 

Reorienting Economics Through Triangulation of Methods

Paul Downward (Loughborough University) and Andrew Mearman (University of the West of England)

            Lawson’s Reply

 

Feminism And Realism – a contested relationship
Irene van Staveren   (Nijmegen University, Netherlands)    

Lawson’s Reply

 

Conjectural Revisionary Ontology
Jack Vromen   (
Erasmas University Rotterdam, Netherlands)     

Lawson’s Reply

 

Critical Realism in Economics – a different view

Bjørn-Ivar Davidsen   (Ostfold University College, Norway)         

Lawson’s Reply

 

(Un)Real Criticism

David Ruccio   (University of Notre Dame, USA)                 

            Lawson’s Reply

 

The Nature of Heterodox Economics             

John B, Davis   (University of Amsterdam and Marquette University, Netherlands and USA)

                Lawson’s Reply