Critical realism in economics and open-systems ontology: A critique

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-75

  Mearman, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Closed systems; Critical realism; Dualism; Open systems; Post Keynesianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645146984     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346760500529955     Document Type: Review

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