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Refugee Policy is a Realist’s Nightmare: The Case of Southeast Asia

LEE, Chen Chen - In: Migration Letters 3 (2006) 2, pp. 137-149

Although Southeast Asia has experienced one of history’s most complex and massive displacement of populations dur-ing the Indo-China crisis, it remains one of the least ad-vanced regions in terms of refugee law and practice. This paper explains the region's compassion fatigue towards refugees....

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Der Bruch der Theorie in der Praxis durch Not. Bemerkungen zu Lujo Brentanos Sicht von Arbeitsmarktproblemen

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2005

Some Remarks on Lujo Brentano's View of Labor Market Problems Lujo Brentano (1844-1931) aimed for "realism" in …

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Bandwagoning versus Balancing en la teoría social básica del Realismo

González, Ariel - Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales (CAEI)

En este paper nos proponemos delimitar sobre la base de lascaracterísticas de una teoría social básica, el programa de investigación realista con susprincipales supuestos, aumentando su generalidad y su comprensión lógica para luego,y respetando esta demarcación; desarrollar el debate...

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Traction in the world: economics and narrative interviews

Turk, Jeffrey David - In: International Journal of Green Economics 3 (2009) 1, pp. 77-92

This article contributes to the methodological debate that is being taken up in green economics. A comparison with physics is used to argue that economics cannot be done as natural science, but must be done as social science using a set of methods tuned to the subject matter. Because of the...

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Reorienting critical realism: a system-wide perspective on the capitalist economy

Brown, Andrew - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 14 (2007) 4, pp. 499-519

inseparable from predominant social activities contra critical realism. For example, the predominance of commodity exchange … alternative analyses to critical realism of event regularities ('closures'), of 'depth', and of 'tendencies'. …

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A Field Experiment Involving Cash and Hypothetical Charitable Donations

Macmillan, Douglas; Smart, Trevor; Thorburn, Andrew - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 14 (1999) 3, pp. 399-412

biased upwards in comparison to cash payments. Lack of realism, through its influence on incentives to mis-report payments …

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Boettke, The Austrian School and the Reclamation of Reality in Modern Economics

Lewis, Paul - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 18 (2005) 1, pp. 83-108

lack of realism. This paper situates Boettke’s critique in the context provided by recent developments in the methodology … of economics, most notably critical realism. While there is a good deal of common ground between Boettke’s approach and … critical realism, the latter also helps to reveal some of the limitations of the variant of Austrian economics to which Boettke …

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Once More, With Feeling: Feminist Economics and the Ontological Question

Nelson, Julie - In: Feminist Economics 9 (2003) 1, pp. 109-118

Is it worthwhile for feminist economists to delve into questions about the nature of reality? This essay argues that "feeling" is an aspect of reality that is neglected by both standard and critical-realist approaches to ontology. The author contends that a "process" approach to characterizing...

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Feminism, Realism, and Universalism

Lawson, Tony - In: Feminist Economics 5 (1999) 2, pp. 25-59

Feminists have drawn attention to, and rightly criticized, the tendency of dominant groups unthinkingly to universalize their own values and practices. In so doing, however, many feminists have appeared inclined to criticize almost any practice of generalizing, a development that has proven...

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Teaching monetary theory and monetary policy implementation after the crisis

Lavoie, Marc - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 12 (2015) 2, pp. 220-228

The author reflects on the state of macroeconomic theory, and more specifically on how monetary economics is being taught in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Whereas heterodox macroeconomic theory is very much alive due to the influx of a large number of contributions and...

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