@article{50021f1701034fc49c00d5c2245e1256,
title = "On some criticisms of critical realism in economics",
abstract = "Methodological comments on critical realism in economics have proliferated over the past decade - typically focusing on Tony Lawson's Economics and Reality and Reorienting Economics , which constitute the core of this project. In the present paper we select a series of important, mostly very recent arguments against critical realism in economics and assess their merits and demerits.",
keywords = "Critical realism in economics, Economic methodology, Ontology",
author = "Moura, {M{\'a}rio da Gra{\c c}a} and Nuno Martins",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received 25 September 2006; final version received 28 June 2007. Address for correspondence: Nuno Martins, Universidade Cat{\'o}lica Portuguesa, Faculdade de Economia e Gest{\~a}o, Rua Diogo Botelho 1327, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal; email: nmartins@porto.ucp.pt *Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, and Centro de Estudos Macroecon{\'o}micos e Previs{\~a}o (CEMPRE); and Faculdade de Economia e Gest{\~a}o, Universidade Cat{\'o}lica Portuguesa, and Centro de Estudos em Gest{\~a}o e Economia (CEGE), respectively. CEMPRE and CEGE are supported by the Fundaxc{\~a}o para a Ci{\^e}ncia e a Tecnologia, Portugal, through the Programa Operacional Ci{\^e}ncia e Inovaxc{\~a}o (POCI), which is financed by FEDER and Portuguese funds. For very helpful comments, the authors are most grateful to Geoff Hodgson, John Latsis, Tony Lawson, Stephen Pratten and three anonymous referees. Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2008",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1093/cje/bem038",
language = "English",
volume = "32",
pages = "203--218",
journal = "Cambridge Journal of Economics",
issn = "0309-166X",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "2",
}