Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics

This open access book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects (sometimes described as objects of nature and objects of thought) in the workings of causal and agency relationships. One of its important and possibly original conclus...

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Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics
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