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1. Keynes' Economics (Routledge Revivals)

   Methodological Issues

   Edited by Tony Lawson, Hashem Pesaran

   First published in 1985, this title includes contributions from leading economists and addresses many seminal aspects of Keynes' work and methods. This revival will be of particular interest to lecturers and advanced students of economics....

   Published November 11th 2009 by Routledge
2. Reorienting Economics

   By Tony Lawson

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   This eagerly anticipated new book from Tony Lawson contends that economics can profit from a more explicit concern with ontology (enquiry into the nature of existence) than has been its custom. By admitting that economics is not exactly a picture of health at the moment, Lawson hopes that we can...

   Published February 19th 2003 by Routledge
3. Dictionary of Sociology

   By Tony Lawson, Joan Garrod

   First published in 2001...

   Published January 31st 2001 by Routledge
4. Critical Realism

   Essential Readings

   Edited by Margaret Archer, Roy Bhaskar, Andrew Collier, Tony Lawson, Alan Norrie

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one...

   Published September 16th 1998 by Routledge
5. Economics and Reality

   By Tony Lawson

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   'No reality please. We're economists'. There is a wide spread belief that modern economics is irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. In a controversial and original study, Tony Lawson argues that the root of this irrelevance is in the failure of economists to find methods and tools...

   Published January 1st 1997 by Routledge