Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics.

• Superior document: Virtues and Economics Series ; v.5
• Author: Róna, Peter.
• TeilnehmendeR: Zsolnai, László.
• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)

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 &amp
• 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 &amp
• 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 &amp
• 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 &amp
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• 10.9 De libero arbitrio
• 10.10 The Limits of Freedom
• 10.11 Natural Liberty and Conscience
• Index.