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Development -- Developments in economics as realist social theory / Tony Lawson -- Under labouring -- Deductivism -- Retroduction -- Social relations -- Context -- Substantive theory -- The 'closure' assumption as a first step: neo-Ricardian economics and post-Keynesianism / Stephen Pratten -- Critical realism, deductivism and closure -- The neo-Ricardian retention of deductivism -- The core of classical political economy -- Realism, theory and individualism in the work of Carl Menger / Clive Lawson -- Menger: realism and theory -- Theory as exact science -- The exact method, individualism and the 'simplest elements in everything real' -- Problems with Menger's essentialism? -- Transcendental realism -- Transcendental realism and Menger's exact science -- On Popper, probabilities and propensities / Jochen Runde -- Probabilities as propensities -- A world of propensities -- Falsification, situational analysis and propensities as causes -- Metaphor and critical realism / Paul Lewis -- Reference and critical realism -- The interanimation theory of metaphor -- Metaphors and models -- Metaphor and reference -- Money is a social relation / Geoffrey Ingham -- Money in orthodox 'real' economic analysis -- The search for the 'micro-foundations' of money -- Money as a structure of social relations -- Debate -- Situating critical realism in economics / Steve Fleetwood -- Critical realism: rooted more firmly in economics -- Critical realism: the focus upon ontology -- Critical realism and economics: a causal holist critique / Thomas A. Boylan, Paschal F. O'Gorman -- From transcendental to critical realism -- From ontology to methodology: issues for critical realism -- Why the 'transcendental' in transcendental realism? / Stephen D. Parsons -- What is a transcendental argument? -- Justification of realism -- The argument from human capabilities -- Empirical realism as meta-method: Tony Lawson on neoclassical economics / D. Wade Hands -- Empirical realism and neoclassical economics -- What neoclassicism is not: economic practice -- What neoclassicism is not: methodology -- Against Eurocentred epistemologies: a critique of science, realism and economics / Rajani Kanth -- Science -- Economics -- Realism -- Against Eurocentricism -- Critical issues in economics as realist social theory / Tony Lawson -- The use of transcendental argument in evaluating philosophical perspectives -- Arguments in support of a perspective on social reality and (social) science -- The nature and relevance of the contemporary mainstream project in economics -- The nature of social scientific explanation -- Critical realism, science and human freedom.