On some criticisms of critical realism in economics

Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved.Methodological comments on critical realism in economics have proliferated over the past decade - typically focusing on Tony Lawson's Economics and Reality and Reorienting Economics, which constitute the core of this project. In the present paper we select a series of important, mostly very recent arguments against critical realism in economics and assess their merits and demerits