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Isolation and economic models in critical realism

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  • Agustina Borella

    (Investigadora en formación del Centro de Investigación en Epistemología de las Ciencias Económicas (CIECE), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Avenida Córdoba 2122, 1º piso, aula 111, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (C1120AAQ), Argentina.)

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This paper tries to deepen the notion of isolation in Tony Lawson´s Critical Realism and its relation with his position on the use of mainstream economic models to access the social world. I distinguish the notion of isolation and abstraction in this author. I show that the consideration of the complexity of social reality is related to his position on the role of isolation to reach it. Lawson´s social ontology is central to establish what the role is that isolation performs in the knowledge of the social realm. There is, in this author, a pre-eminence of the ontological over the theoretical. How the world is determines the methodological possibilities to know it.

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  • Agustina Borella, 2012. "Isolation and economic models in critical realism," Economía, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (IIES). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida, Venezuela, vol. 37(34), pages 139-152, july-dece.
    • Handle: RePEc:ula:econom:v:37:y:2012:i:34:p:139-152
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    • B50 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - General

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