Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics.

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Main Author: Róna, Peter.
Other Authors: Zsolnai, László.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Virtues and Economics Series
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505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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 -- ατ̔̈»Ε50;xfqrύvlrw -- 10.9 De libero arbitrio -- 10.10 The Limits of Freedom -- 10.11 Natural Liberty and Conscience -- Index. 
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