Words, Objects and Events in Economics : The Making of Economic Theory
Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka --Price Wincewicz
With all their graphs, models and puzzles that sometimes fill first-year students with awe and wonder, economics textbooks are relatively simple in their content. They sketch what seems to be a logical, if abstract, picture of the economic world, but they do not engage with any of the serious difficulties that in modern economic theory passes for economic practice and policy. You will not learn from them that economics does not have an ontologically objective subject, that economic life is the product of human (collective) intentionality or that there are more demanding elements in economic decision making than finding means to a given end. The book before you, on the other hand, examines a long list of mysteries hidden from those elementary advances in economics that are reproduced more or less consciously by theorists, practitioners and students of economics who in their studies have not been daring enough to challenge or qualify received economic wisdom. Insofar, it is argued here, as these ‘hidden’ aspects of economic reality are important for its explanation and description, they
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Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics
Peter Róna, László Zsolnai
It is quite difficult to make sense of an event without having a notion as to why and how it happened. Indeed, we often have an anxious sense of doubt and uncertainty about something that we know has happened if we have no or only an inadequate idea of the circumstances bringing it about. As Elizabeth Anscombe recollected in the first two sentences of her introduction to Volume II of her collected papers,1 ‘My first strenuous interest in philosophy was in the topic of causality. I didn’t know that what I was interested in belonged to philosophy’. Causality and – as some of the papers in this volume argue – agency are with us even when we are not aware of it, so much so that the questions of the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ not only affect what we know but also are quite fundamental to judgements; no system of morality, no ethical norm can do without them, and even aesthetics cannot lack some conception of the agent. Causation and agency, therefore, affect and permeate all of philosophy ranging from metaphysics through epistemology and ethics all the way to aesthetics.
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