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Preferred term
critical realism in economics
Definition
- The central claim of the project of critical realism in economics is that the discipline would benefit from a more explicit, systematic, and sustained concern with ontology—that is, with the philosophical analysis of the nature of what exists in the social world—than its practitioners have hitherto displayed. Underpinning this claim is the belief that social research is most likely to bear fruit if it uses tools that are tailored to suit the nature of the material under investigation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Critical Realism in Economics]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/critical_realism_in_economics
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