Economics as social theory and the new economic sociology

Transforming Economics: Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 167-186

  Lewis, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SELWYN COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203417263     Document Type: Chapter

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