In this book, Tony Lawson advocates a relignment of economics with social reality - placing ontology at the heart of a discipline integrated within the wider human and social sciences.

Tony Lawson is a member of the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Part 1 The Current Orientation of the Discipline and the Proposed Alternative; Chapter 1 Four Theses on the State of Modern Economics; Chapter 2 An Ontological Turn in Economics; Chapter 3 What has Realism got to do with it?; Part 2 Possibilities for Economics; Chapter 4 Explanatory Method for Social Science; Chapter 5 An Evolutionary Economics?; Chapter 6 Economics as a Distinct Social Science?; Part 3 Heterodox Traditions of Modern Economics; Chapter 7 The Nature of Post Keynesianism and the Problem of Delineating the Various Heterodox Traditions; Chapter 8 Institutional Economics and Realist Social Theorising; Chapter 9 Feminism, Realism and Universalism; Part 4 A Historical Perspective on Economic Practice; Chapter 10 An Explanation of the Mathematising Tendency in Modern Economics;