This paper addresses objectivity in economics. It criticizes a closed science, "view from nowhere" conception of economics and defends an open science, "view from somewhere" conception of objective science. It ascribes the first conception to mainstream economics, associates it with its...

George Soros makes an important analytical contribution to understanding the concept of reflexivity in social science by explaining reflexivity in terms of how his cognitive and manipulative causal functions are connected to one another by a pair of feedback loops (Soros, 2013). Here I put aside...

This paper extends behavioral economics' realist methodological critique of rational choice theory to include the type of logical reasoning underlying its axiomatic foundations. A purely realist critique ignores Kahneman's emphasis on how the theory's axiomatic foundations make it normative. I...

This short paper examines a possible connection between religion and economics in terms of the parallelism between the Homo economicus doctrine and the individual soul doctrine. The paper explores whether resistance to pluralism in economics as a methodological practice might be explained in...

This chapter discusses the Homo economicus conception of the individual in economics in its neoclassical formulation from an ontological point of view. It distinguishes ontological and epistemological analysis, sets forth identity conditions for the evaluation of the he Homo economicus...

This paper examines the relationship between the individual conception in economics and the justification of economic rights as human rights. It briefly describes the nature of economic rights, and argues that the Homo economicus conception constitutes a barrier to justifying them. The paper...