Economics for Real : Uskali Maki and the Place of Truth in Economics (Hardcover)

Introduction Aki Lehtinen  Part I: Isolating Truth in Economic Models  1. Saving Truth for Economics Frank Hidriks 2. The Verisimilitude of Economic Models Ilkka Niniluoto  3. Maki’s MISS Daniel M. Housman  4. Maki’s Three Notions of Isolation Till Grune-Yanoff  5. Theoretical Isolation and the Dyanmics of Dispute: Going beyond Maki’s De- and Re-Isolation Jack Vromen  Part II: The commonsensical Basis of Economics  6. Are Preferences for Real? Choice Theory, Folk Psychology, and the Hard Case for Commonsensible Realism Francesco Guala  7. Realism, Commonsensibiles, and Economics: The Case of Contemorary Revealed Preference Theory D. Wade Hands  Part III: The Proper Domain of Economics 8. Maki’s Realism and the Scope of Economics Don Ross  9. Maki on Economics Imperialism John B. Davis  Part IV: Rethinking Realism(s)  10. Pragmatism, Perspectival Realism, and Econometrics Kevin D. Hoover 11. Conversation, Realism and Inference: Revisiting the Rhetoric vs. Realism Dispute Jesus Zamora-Bonilla  12. How to be Critical and Realist about Economics Jaako Kuorikoski and Petri Ylikoski