Tony Lawson and the history of economic thought

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2020

Authors

Lourenço, D (Author) Other; Mário Graça Moura (Author) FEP

Journal

Title: Cambridge Journal of Economics

Vol. 44 No. 5

Pages: 991-1011

ISSN: 0309-166X

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Authenticus ID: P-00S-ZMR

DOI: 10.1093/cje/beaa030

Abstract (EN): Tony Lawson's writings, including those in the history of economics, have an ontological orientation. Several scholars influenced by him likewise practice an ontologically oriented history of economic thought. However, the programme for this sort of history has not been explicitly articulated. In the present paper, we argue that Lawson's The nature of heterodox economics contains implicitly an ontologically oriented programme in the history of economic thought. We also illustrate the achievements of this programme by reviewing the writings on the later Austrians by Lawson and his associates. Finally, we assess the programme and its achievements in the light of Lawson's comments on the importance of doing social-scientific ontology and doing history of economic thought.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific