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Provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects
Examines theories historically offered with respect to social causation and agency and proposes and defends some alternatives
Stipulates the fundamental differences in causality in nature as compared to social life with particular regard to economics
Examines the nature of causation and agency in social life
Part of the book series: Virtues and Economics (VIEC, volume 5)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Praxis
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Open Access
- Uses and Abuses of Rational Choice Theory
- Argument from social and economic anthropology
- Free Will & Empirical Arguments for Epiphenomenalism
- Critical Realism’s explanatory approach
- Predictable Human Economic Behaviour
- Stoic Economics
- Agency and Causation in Marx
- Consequences of the ontological differences
- Workings of causal and agency relationships
- Critical realist theory
- Ontological differences between natural and social objects
- Social causation and agency
- Causality in nature as compared to social life
- Nature of causation and agency in social life
- Ontological difference between physical and social reality
Editors and Affiliations
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Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Peter Róna
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Business Ethics Center, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
László Zsolnai
About the editors
Peter Róna was born in Hungary in 1942. He emigrated to the United States in 1956, obtained his B.A. degree in economic history (cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964, and his law degree from Oxford University (First Class) in 1964. He was an associate of the Washington, D.C, law firm, Arnold & Porter and counsel to the US Department of Commerce before becoming the personal assistant of Lord Richardson, Governor of the Bank of England. He joined the Schroder Group in 1969 as the General Counsel of its operations in the United Sates, and became the President and Chief Executive of the IBJ Schroder Bank & Trust co. in 1985. Shortly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall he returned to Hungary, where he managed an investment fund. In 2003 he joined the faculty of Eötvös Lóránd University where he taught public international law. In 2006 he was made an Honorary Professor of the University.
He joined the teaching staff of Blackfriars Hall in 2009, where he teaches an introductory course in economics and a more advanced one on the philosophical foundations of the social sciences. His published articles include a study of the Euro and an examination of the philosophical foundations of economics.
Laszlo Zsolnai’s books include "The Collaborative Enterprise: Creating Values for a Sustainable World" (2010. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang Academic Publishers), „The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business” (2011. Houndmills, UK, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan), „Beyond Self: Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of Economics” (2014. Peter Lang Academic Publishers, Oxford), and „The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management” (2015, Springer).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics
Editors: Peter Róna, László Zsolnai
Series Title: Virtues and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26114-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26113-9Published: 15 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26116-0Published: 11 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26114-6Published: 07 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2520-1794
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1808
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 171
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ontology, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Social Anthropology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Sociological Theory