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标题：Economics for real: Uskali Mäki and the place of truth in economics
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作者：Fredrik Hansen
期刊名称：Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
印刷版ISSN：1876-9098
出版年度：2012
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：113-117
出版社：Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
摘要：Uskali M.ki has been one of the major thinkers in economic methodology during the last decades and devoting a book to his philosophy of economics is a natural and appropriate step. Let me already at this stage admit that I am not really neutral about M.ki's work. On several occasions I have myself applied it to contemporary issues in economics. From my own experience I know that M.ki's ideas about realism, realisticness, isolation, commonsensibles, ontology, and so forth, have the potential to be successfully communicated to practicing economists, other social scientists and even politicians. This kind of potential is noteworthy and not common in economic methodology. The editors have managed to put together a very interesting book (and, according to the preface, within a short time frame). The book is organized around the following four parts intended to cover M.ki's extensive philosophy of economics: isolating truth in economic models; the commonsensical basis of economics; the proper domain of economics; and rethinking realism(s). I will briefly discuss each of these parts and then conclude with some reflections on the contents and scope of the book