Mearman, Andrew - Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, … - 2004
ontology of open systems which draws on various literatures including, but not limited to, Critical Realism. The paper then … extrapolates from the ontology to a set of methodological arguments. Many methods in economics presuppose a degree of closure in … argued, therefore, that these methods should be rejected. However, an open-systems methodology is also an open system and it …