Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-241) and index.
Pt. I. Where do laws of nature come from? 1. Fundamentalism versus the patchwork of laws. 2. Fables and models. 3. Nomological machines and the laws they produce -- Pt. II. Laws and their limits -- The laws we test in physics. 4. Aristotelian natures and the modern experimental method -- Causal laws. 5. Causal diversity; causal stability -- Current economic theory. 6. Ceteris paribus laws and socio-economic machines -- Probabilistic laws. 7. Probability machines: chance set-ups and economic models -- Pt. III. The boundaries of quantum and classical physics and the territories they share. 8. How bridge principles set the domain of quantum theory. 9. How quantum and classical theories relate.