Fact and fiction in economics: models, realism and social construction

I. Introduction

1. dismal queen of the social sciences / Uskali Maki

II. Setting the scene

2. Ugly currents in modern economics / Mark Blaug

3. Modern economics and its critics / Partha Dasgupta

4. Some nonreasons for nonrealism about economics / Uskali Maki

III. Economic models and economic reality

5. Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics / Robert Sugden

6. limits of causal order, from economics to physics / Nancy Cartwright

7. Econometrics and reality / Kevin D. Hoover

8. Models, stories, and the economic world / Mary S. Morgan

9. Economic models and reality: the role of informal scientific methods / Roger E. Backhouse

10. Truthlikeness and economic theories / Ilkka Niiniluoto

IV. constitution of economic reality

11. Rational choice, functional selection, and "empty black boxes" / Philip Pettit

12. reality of common cultures / Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap

13. Collective acceptance and collective attitudes: on the social construction of social reality / Raimo Tuomela and Wolfgang Balzer

14. Hayek and cultural evolution / Bruce Caldwell

15. Putting evidence in its place: John Mill's early struggles with "facts in the concrete" / Neil de Marchi

V. institutions of economics

16. You shouldn't want a realism if you have a rhetoric / Deirdre N. McCloskey

17. more things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in contemporary science studies / D. Wade Hands

18. Economists: truth-seekers or rent-seekers? / Jesus P. Zamora Bonilla.