Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics.
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Superior document: | Virtues and Economics Series ; v.5 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019. {copy}2020. |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Virtues and Economics Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (178 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics
- Preface and Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Contents
- Editors and Contributors
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Part I: Theory
- Chapter 1: Free Will &
- Empirical Arguments for Epiphenomenalism
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 The Philosophical Worries
- 1.3 The Neuroscientific Worries
- 1.3.1 What Is "Conscious Will"?
- 1.4 Epiphenomenalism and Freedom of the Will
- 1.4.1 Purported Conditions of Action
- 1.4.2 Naturalistic Purported Conditions of Freedom
- 1.4.2.1 Acting on the Basis of Choices
- 1.4.2.2 Reasons Responsiveness
- 1.4.2.3 Harmony with Deeper Values
- 1.4.2.4 Alternative Possibilities
- 1.4.3 Non-Naturalistic Purported Conditions of Freedom
- 1.4.3.1 Conscious Origination
- 1.4.3.2 Immunity from Prior Influence
- 1.5 Epiphenomenalism and Free Will Scepticism
- 1.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 2: Causality, Agency and Change
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Mainstream Economics, Ontological Neglect and the Denial of Agency
- 2.3 Humean Causality and Event Focussed Conceptions of Change
- 2.4 Defending a Depth Realism
- 2.5 Situating Agency and Choice Within Nature
- 2.6 Causality, Change and Social Transformation
- 2.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3: How Economics Becomes Ideology: The Uses and Abuses of Rational Choice Theory
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Rational Choice and Scientific Causality
- 3.3 Rational Choice and Neoliberal Ideology
- 3.4 An Alternative Rational Choice
- Chapter 4: Economics, Agency, and Causal Explanation
- 4.1 Economics and Agency
- 4.2 Agency and Causation
- 4.2.1 Defending the Basic Argument for a Causal View of Reason-Explanation
- 4.2.2 The Many Faces of Causal Explanation
- 4.2.3 Conclusion
- 4.3 Causation in the Social Sciences and in the Natural Sciences
- References
- Chapter 5: Causation and Agency.
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Causation(s)
- 5.3 Intention(s) and the Will
- 5.4 Rule-Based Roles
- 5.5 Conclusion
- References
- Part II: Praxis
- Chapter 6: Why Aquinas Would Agree That Human Economic Behaviour Is Largely Predictable
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Free Decision Within a Complex Psyche
- 6.2.1 Abilities of a Complex Form of Life
- 6.2.2 Animal Abilities to Interpret and Respond
- 6.2.3 Limited Conscious Control
- Pre-conscious "Acts"
- 6.2.4 Rational Perception and Reaction
- 6.2.5 Co-operation Between Intellect and Sensory Abilities, Between Will and Emotions
- 6.2.6 Co-operation Between Intellect and Will in Free Decision
- 6.2.7 Development of Habits and Virtues
- 6.2.8 Limited Conscious Self-Awareness
- 6.2.9 Influences Upon "Embedded" Free Decision
- 6.3 Explicable But Open-Ended Freedom
- 6.4 In Humanity's Ideal State, Would Behaviour Be Predictable?
- 6.5 Fallen, Vulnerable Humanity's Predictability
- 6.6 Factors Causing Predictability, Especially of the Majority
- 6.6.1 Heavenly Bodies
- 6.6.2 Inheritance
- 6.6.3 Climate
- 6.6.4 Corrupt or Worthy Customs
- 6.6.5 Coercive Law
- 6.6.6 Persuasion and Protreptic
- 6.7 Angels, Demons and Grace: Causes of Unpredictability?
- 6.8 Conclusion
- Chapter 7: Agency, Time and Morality: An Argument from Social and Economic Anthropology
- 7.1 Agency in Social Anthropology
- 7.2 The Argument
- 7.3 An Ethnography of Economic Action
- 7.4 Theoretical Implications of Ethnography for a Theory of Agency
- 7.5 Implications for the Study of Global Markets
- References
- Chapter 8: The Switch from Agency to Causation in Marx
- 8.1 First Edition Versus Second Edition
- 8.2 The Theory of Commodities and Money (TCM)
- 8.3 The Combined Theory: TCM &
- LTV
- 8.4 The 'Four Peculiarities'
- 8.5 Fetishism
- 8.6 Why Did Marx Impose Ricardo?
- 8.7 Conclusion.
- Chapter 9: The Morphogenetic Approach
- Critical Realism's Explanatory Framework Approach
- 9.1 Philosophical Under-Labouring and the Need for an Explanatory Toolkit
- 9.2 Impatient 'Innovative' Responses and Their Deficiencies
- 9.2.1 The Effect of Anti-realist Evasions in the Current Global Crisis
- Chapter 10: 'God Created Man ατ̔̈”<U+0043>Γ·τεξοτ̔̈”<U+0043>Γ·σιον': Grotius's Theological Anthropology and Modern Contract Doctrine
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Freeing 'Freedom of Contract' from Moral Theology
- 10.3 The (Free) Will &
- Law
- 10.4 The 'Person of Law'
- 10.5 Contract as Promise
- 10.6 Contract as Private Legislation
- 10.7 Grotius on 'Natural Liberty'
- 10.8 Liberum &
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- 10.9 De libero arbitrio
- 10.10 The Limits of Freedom
- 10.11 Natural Liberty and Conscience
- Index.