caa a22 4500 397572816 CHVBK 20180308164846.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199601 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013605 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013605 Realism, underlabouring and institutions [Elektronische Daten] [Clive Lawson, Mark Peacock, Stephen Pratten] Despite recent advances, economic methodology has found it difficult to transcend certain positivist premisses and concerns. We argue that developments in philosophy and social theory under the heading of critical realism are particularly significant with respect to overcoming these problems. To illustrate, we focus upon various themes that arise in a recent collection concerned with economic methodology and institutionalist economics, relating these themes to relevant aspects of this realist position. In so doing, we argue that an economic methodology restricted to description and an institutionalism committed to some form of methodological individualism are not only unnecessary but problematic. © 1996 Academic Press Limited REVIEW ARTICLE nationallicence Lawson Clive University of Cambridge aut Peacock Mark University of Cambridge aut Pratten Stephen University of Cambridge aut Cambridge Journal of Economics Oxford University Press 20/1(1996-01), 137-151 0309-166X 20:1<137 1996 20 cameco https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013605 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013605 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lawson Clive University of Cambridge aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Peacock Mark University of Cambridge aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pratten Stephen University of Cambridge aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cambridge Journal of Economics Oxford University Press 20/1(1996-01), 137-151 0309-166X 20:1<137 1996 20 cameco Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford