Article: Polarities between naturalism and non-naturalism in contemporary economics: an overview.

Set in the context of the philosophy of the social sciences, this paper draws out polarities between competing tendencies in contemporary academic economics. It explores how naturalistic and non-naturalistic frameworks of thinking about economics differ at the fundamental levels of their philosophical presuppositions, the manner in which their theories are formulated and appraised, and the ways in which they relate to other social sciences. "Naturalistic" and "non-naturalistic" are familiar terms in the philosophy of social science, encompassing divergent ways of depicting and explaining human behavior and relationships. Although not commonly used in economics, the terms ...

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