Tony Lawson and the history of economic thought
论证托尼·劳森的著作中隐含着一个以本体论为导向的经济思想史研究纲领,并通过回顾劳森及其合作者对后期奥地利学派的研究来展示该纲领的成果,最后评估其贡献。
Abstract Tony Lawson’s writings, including those in the history of economics, have an ontological orientation. Several scholars influenced by him likewise practice an ontologically oriented history of economic thought. However, the programme for this sort of history has not been explicitly articulated. In the present paper, we argue that Lawson’s The nature of heterodox economics contains implicitly an ontologically oriented programme in the history of economic thought. We also illustrate the achievements of this programme by reviewing the writings on the later Austrians by Lawson and his associates. Finally, we assess the programme and its achievements in the light of Lawson’s comments on the importance of doing social-scientific ontology and doing history of economic thought.