Economics for real : Uskali Mäki and the place of truth in economics

This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Mäki’s realist philosophy of economics. Economics for Real Uskali Mäki and the place of truth in economics Copyright Contents List of figures and tables List of contributors Preface Introduction PART I: Isolating truth in economic models 1 Saving truth for economics 2 The verisimilitude of economic models 3 Mäki’s MISS 4 Mäki’s three notions of isolation 5 Theoretical isolation and the dynamics of dispute: going beyond Mäki’s de- and re-isolation PART II: The commonsensical basis of economics 6 Are preferences for real? Choice theory, folk psychology, and the hard case for commonsensible realism 7 Realism, commonsensibles, and economics: the case of contemporary revealed preference theory PART III: The proper domain of economics 8 Mäki’s realism and the scope of economics 9 Mäki on economics imperialism PART IV: Rethinking realism(s) 10 Pragmatism, perspectival realism, and econometrics 11 Conversation, realism and inference: revisiting the rhetoric vs. realism dispute 12 How to be critical and realist about economics Index Saving truth for economicsFrank Hindriks --The verisimilitude of economic modelsIlkka Niiniluoto --Mäki's MISSDaniel M. Hausman --Mäki's three notions of isolationTill Grüne-Yanoff --Theorectical isolation and the dynamics of dispute : going beyond Mäki's de- and re-isolationJack Vromen --Are preferences for real? : choice theory, folk psychology, and the hard case for commonsensible realismFrancesco Guala --Realism, commonsensibles, and economics : the case of comtemporary revealed preference theoryD. Wade Hands --Mäki's realism and the scope of economicsDon Ross --Mäki on economics imperialismJohn B. Davis --Pragmatism, perspectival realism, and econometricsKevin D. Hoover --Conversation, realism, and inference : revisiting the rhetoric vs. realism disputeJesús Zamora Bonilla --How to be critical and realist about economicsJaakko Kuorikoski and Petri Ylikoski This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Maki's realist philosophy of economics.