The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy aims to demonstrate exactly how these two important areas have always …pt. 1. Political economy as political philosophy -- pt. 2. The methodology and epistemology of economics -- pt. 3 …. Social ontology and the ontology of economics …

different but related economic sciences, including statistics and economic history, positive economics, normative economics, and … the 'art of political economy'. Typically, positive economics has analysed economic phenomena using the second approach … last 40 years, and some of these do assign a fundamental role to ends within economics. This book argues that the field of …