Table of Contents: Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics.

Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics.

Bibliographic Details
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
Subjects:	Electronic books.
Online Access:	Click to View

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.

Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics.

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