Books on Philosophy and Methodology of Economics

General texts

• Roger E. Backhouse (1994) New Directions in Economic Methodology
• Roger E. Backhouse (2007) Explorations In Economic Methodology: From Lakatos to Empirical Philosophy of Science
• Bruce J. Caldwell (Ed.) (1993) The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics
• John Davis, A. Marciano, J. Runde (2004) The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy
• Lindy Edwards (2002) How to Argue with an Economist
• Edward Fullbrook (2008) Ontology and Economics: Tony Lawson and his Critics
• Daniel M. Hausman (2008) Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology
• Daniel M. Hausman (1992) The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics
• Daniel M. Hausman (1994) The Philosophy of Economics
• David F. Hendry (2000) Econometrics: Alchemy or Science?
• Arjo Klamer (2006) Speaking of Economics: How to Get in the Conversation (Economics & Social Theory)
• Daniel B. Klein (2001) What do Economists Contribute?
• Tony Lawson (1997) Economics and Reality
• Tony Lawson (2003) Reorienting Economics
• Uskali Mäki (Ed.) (2001) The Economic World View: Studies in the Ontology of Economics

Books on Specific topics

• George Ainslie (2001) Breakdown of Will
• Fouad Ajami (1992) The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice since 1967 (Canto original series)
• Jack Amariglio, Stephen Cullenberg, David Ruccio (2001) Post-Modernism, Economics and Knowledge
• Mario Amendola, Jean-Luc Gaffard (2006) The Market Way to Riches: Behind the Myth
• Alice H. Amsden (2009) Escape from Empire
• Christopher J. Anderson, Andre Blais, Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan, Ola Listhaug (2007) Losers' Consent: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy (Comparative Politics)
• A.B. Atkinson (Ed.) (1993) Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership (International Economic Association)
• N. Emrah Aydinonat (2008) The Invisible Hand in Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences
• Pranab Bardhan (2008) The Contested Commons: Conversations Between Economists and Anthropologists
• Albino Barrera (2005) Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics)
• Mel Bartley (2003) Health Inequality: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Methods
• Yoram Barzel (2001) A Theory of the State: Economic Rights, Legal Rights, and the Scope of the State
• Henk A. Becker, Frank Vanclay (2003) The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment: Conceptual and Methodological Advances
• Oliver Black (2005) Conceptual Foundations of Antitrust
• Peter J. Boettke, Peter T. Leeson (2006) The Legacy of Ludwig Von Mises
• William T. Bogart (2006) Don't Call It Sprawl: Metropolitan Structure in the 21st Century
• Lawrence Boland (1995) The Principles of Economics: Some Lies My Teacher Told Me
• Marcel Boumans (2007) How Economists Model The World Into Numbers
• Thomas A. Boylan, Paschal Francis O'Gorman (Eds.) (2007) Popper and Economic Methodology: Contemporary Challenges
• Geoffrey Brennan, Philip Pettit (2004) The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society
• Geoffrey Brennan, James M. Buchanan (2006) The Power to Tax: Analytic Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution
• Reuven Brenner (1990) Gambling and Speculation: A Theory, a History, and a Future of Some Human Decisions
• Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, Ronald Wintrobe (Eds.) (1995) Nationalism and Rationality
• Albert Breton (1996) Competitive Governments: An Economic Theory of Politics and Public Finance
• Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, Ronald Wintrobe (Eds.) (2003) Rational Foundations of Democratic Politics
• Timothy Brook, Gregory Blue (Eds.) (2002) China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
• John Broome (2004) Weighing Lives
• Kwame Anthony Appiah; Martin Bunzl (2007) Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption
• Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson, John S. Lyons (Eds.) (2007) Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution
• Daniel Callahan (2009) Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
• James A. Caporaso (1992) Theories of Political Economy
• Ian Carter, Matthew Kramer, Hillel Steiner (Eds.) (2006) Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology
• Sylvia Chan (2002) Liberalism, Democracy and Development
• Deen K. Chatterjee (Ed.) (2004) The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)
• Matthew Clayton, Andrew Williams (2003) Social Justice
• David Colander (2003) The Lost Art of Economics: Essays on Economics and the Economics Profession
• Jules L. Coleman (2002) Markets, Morals and the Law
• David W. Conklin (1991) Comparative Economic Systems: Objectives, Decision Modes, and the Process of Choice
• John B. Davis (1994) Keynes's Philosophical Development
• Edward Demenchonok (Ed.) (2009) Between Global Violence and the Ethics of Peace (AJES Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice)
• Edward Demenchonok (Ed.) (2009) Between Global Violence and the Ethics of Peace (AJES Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice)
• Evsey D. Domar (1989) Capitalism, Socialism, and Serfdom: Essays by Evsey D. Domar
• Kurt Dopfer, Jason Potts (2007) The General Theory of Economic Evolution
• Kurt Dopfer (Ed.) (2006) The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics
• Peter J. Dougherty (2002) Who's Afraid of Adam Smith?: How the Market Got Its Soul
• Keith Dowding, Jurgen de Wispleaere, Stuart White (Eds.) (2004) The Ethics of Stakeholding
• Richard A. Easterlin (2006) The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography
• Lindy Edwards (2002) How to Argue with an Economist: Reopening Political Debate in Australia
• Steve Fleetwood (1998) Critical Realism in Economics
• Marc Fleurbaey (2008) Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare
• Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles, John A. Weymark (Eds.) (2008) Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls: 0
• Viviane Forrester (1999) Economic Horror
• Roger Frantz (Ed.) (2006) Renaissance in Behavioural Economics: Harvey Leibenstein's Impact of Contemporary Economic Analysis: Essays
• Frey, Bruno S. (2008) Happiness: A Revolution in Economics (Munich Lectures Series)
• Philippe Le Gall (2006) A History of Econometrics in France: From Nature to Models: 1
• Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, Ernst Fehr (Eds.) (2005) Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundation of Cooperation in Economic Life
• Robert R. Grauer (2003) Asset Pricing Theory and Tests
• Francesco Guala (2005) The Methodology of Experimental Economics
• D. Wade Hands (2001) Reflection Without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory
• D. Wade Hands (2001) Reflection without Rules
• Daniel M. Hausman (1992) Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology
• Daniel M. Hausman (1996) Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy
• Daniel M. Hausman, Michael S. McPherson (2006) Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy
• Willie Henderson, Tony Dudley-Evans, Roger Backhou (1993) Economics and Language
• Jack High (Ed.) (2006) Humane Economics: Essays in Honor of Don Lavoie (New Thinking in Political Economy)
• Albert O. Hirschman (1997) The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
• Kevin D. Hoover (2001) Causality in Macroeconomics
• Kevin D. Hoover (2001) The Methodology of Empirical Macroeconomics
• Harvey M. Jacobs (Ed.) (2003) Private Property in the 21st Century: The Future of an American Ideal
• Wendy James (2004) The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology
• Michael C. Jensen, Paul J. Zak (Eds.) (2008) Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy
• Eric L. Jones (2006) Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture
• Donald W. Katzner (2008) Culture and Economic Explanation: Economics in the US and Japan (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
• Nitasha Kaul (2007) Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounters with Identity/difference
• Elias L. Khalil (2003) Trust
• Arjo Klamer, Donald N. McCloskey, Robert M. Solow (Eds.) (1989) The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric
• David R. Koepsell, Laurence S. Moss (2003) Searle on the Institutions of Social Reality
• Serge-Christophe Kolm (2005) Macrojustice: The Political Economy of Fairness
• Heinz D. Kurz, Pasinetti Luigi, Neri Salvadori (Eds.) (2007) Piero Sraffa: Exploring His Unpublished Papers
• Robert E. Lane (1991) The Market Experience
• David P. Levine, S. Abu Turab Rizvi (2005) Poverty, Work, and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order
• Steven Levitsky (2003) Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective
• I. M. D. Little (2004) Ethics, Economics, and Politics: Principles of Public Policy
• George Loewenstein (2002) Exotic Preferences: Behavioral Economics and Human Motivation
• D. Stephen Long (2000) Divine Economy
• Deirdre N. McCloskey (2001) Measurement and Meaning in Economics
• Philip Mirowski (2002) Machine Dreams
• Tim Mulgan (2006) Future People
• Liam Murphy, Thomas Nagel (2002) The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice
• Uskali Mäki (2001) The Economic World View
• Uskali Mäki (2002) Fact and Fiction in Economics
• Lisa H. Newton (2006) Permission to Steal: Revealing the Roots of Corporate Scandal (Blackwell Public Philosophy Series)
• Bart Nooteboom (2003) Trust: Forms, Foundations, Functions, Failures and Figures
• George Norman, Jacques-François Thisse (Eds.) (2000) Market Structure and Competition Policy: Game-Theoretic Approaches
• Pippa Norris (2002) Democratic Phoenix: Reinventing Political Activism
• Mancur Olson, Satu Kähköhnen (2000) A Not-so-dismal Science
• Edward A. Page, John Proops (Eds.) (2003) Environmental Thought
• Thomas Pogge, Christian Barry (Eds.) (2005) Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice
• Julian Reiss (2007) Error in Economics: Towards a More Evidence-based Methodology
• John E. Roemer (1994) Egalitarian Perspectives: Essays in Philosophical Economics
• Alessandro Roncaglia (2006) The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought
• Warren J. Samuels (2007) The Legal-economic Nexus: Fundamental Processes
• Ekkehart Schlicht (1998) On Custom in the Economy
• Walter J. Schultz (2001) The Moral Conditions of Economic Efficiency
• Amartya Sen (1989) On Ethics and Economics
• Yuichi Shionoya (2005) Economy and Morality: The Philosophy of the Welfare State
• Mark Skousen (2008) EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists are Transforming the World
• Irene van Staveren (2001) The Values of Economics
• Bernt P. Stigum (2003) Econometrics and the Philosophy of Economics: Theory-Data Confrontations in Economics
• Robert Sugden (2004) The Economics of Rights, Co-Operation and Welfare
• Richard Swedberg (2009) Tocqueville's Political Economy
• Michael Szenberg, Lall Ramrattan, Aron A. Gottesman (Eds.) (2006) Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty-First Century
• Michael Szenberg (Ed.) (1991) Eminent Economists: Their Life Philosophies
• Lester G. Telser (1987) A Theory of Efficient Cooperation and Competition
• Philip E. Tetlock (2006) Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
• David Throsby (2000) Economics and Culture
• Charles Tripp (2006) Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism
• Allessandro Vercelli (1991) Methodological Foundations of Macroeconomics: Keynes and Lucas
• Karl Wilderquist, Michael Anthony Lewis, Steven Pressman (Eds.) (2005) The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee
• Y. P. Yonay (1995) The Struggle over the Soul of Economics: Institutionalist and Neoclassical Economists in America between the Wars
• P. J. Zak (2008) Moral Markets The Critical Role of Values in the Economy
• Oliver Zimmer (2003) A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 17611891 (Past and Present Publications)

General texts

New Directions in Economic Methodology

Explorations In Economic Methodology: From Lakatos to Empirical Philosophy of Science

The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics

The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy

How to Argue with an Economist

Ontology and Economics: Tony Lawson and his Critics

Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology

The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics

The Philosophy of Economics

Econometrics: Alchemy or Science?

Speaking of Economics: How to Get in the Conversation (Economics & Social Theory)

What do Economists Contribute?

Economics and Reality

Reorienting Economics

The Economic World View: Studies in the Ontology of Economics

Books on Specific topics

Breakdown of Will

The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice since 1967 (Canto original series)

Post-Modernism, Economics and Knowledge

The Market Way to Riches: Behind the Myth

Escape from Empire

Losers' Consent: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy (Comparative Politics)

Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership (International Economic Association)

The Invisible Hand in Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences

The Contested Commons: Conversations Between Economists and Anthropologists

Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics)

Health Inequality: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Methods

A Theory of the State: Economic Rights, Legal Rights, and the Scope of the State

The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment: Conceptual and Methodological Advances

Conceptual Foundations of Antitrust

The Legacy of Ludwig Von Mises

Don't Call It Sprawl: Metropolitan Structure in the 21st Century

The Principles of Economics: Some Lies My Teacher Told Me

How Economists Model The World Into Numbers

Popper and Economic Methodology: Contemporary Challenges

The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society

The Power to Tax: Analytic Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution

Gambling and Speculation: A Theory, a History, and a Future of Some Human Decisions

Nationalism and Rationality

Competitive Governments: An Economic Theory of Politics and Public Finance

Rational Foundations of Democratic Politics

China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge

Weighing Lives

Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption

Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution

Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System

Theories of Political Economy

Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology

Liberalism, Democracy and Development

The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)

Social Justice

The Lost Art of Economics: Essays on Economics and the Economics Profession

Markets, Morals and the Law

Comparative Economic Systems: Objectives, Decision Modes, and the Process of Choice

Keynes's Philosophical Development

Between Global Violence and the Ethics of Peace (AJES Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice)

Between Global Violence and the Ethics of Peace (AJES Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice)

Capitalism, Socialism, and Serfdom: Essays by Evsey D. Domar

The General Theory of Economic Evolution

The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics

Who's Afraid of Adam Smith?: How the Market Got Its Soul

The Ethics of Stakeholding

The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography

How to Argue with an Economist: Reopening Political Debate in Australia

Critical Realism in Economics

Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare

Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls: 0

Economic Horror

Renaissance in Behavioural Economics: Harvey Leibenstein's Impact of Contemporary Economic Analysis: Essays

Happiness: A Revolution in Economics (Munich Lectures Series)

A History of Econometrics in France: From Nature to Models: 1

Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundation of Cooperation in Economic Life

Asset Pricing Theory and Tests

The Methodology of Experimental Economics

Reflection Without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory

Reflection without Rules

Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology

Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy

Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy

Economics and Language

Humane Economics: Essays in Honor of Don Lavoie (New Thinking in Political Economy)

The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

Causality in Macroeconomics

The Methodology of Empirical Macroeconomics

Private Property in the 21st Century: The Future of an American Ideal

The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology

Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy

Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture

Culture and Economic Explanation: Economics in the US and Japan (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounters with Identity/difference

Trust

The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric

Searle on the Institutions of Social Reality

Macrojustice: The Political Economy of Fairness

Piero Sraffa: Exploring His Unpublished Papers

The Market Experience

Poverty, Work, and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order

Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective

Ethics, Economics, and Politics: Principles of Public Policy

Exotic Preferences: Behavioral Economics and Human Motivation

Divine Economy

Measurement and Meaning in Economics

Machine Dreams

Future People

The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice

The Economic World View

Fact and Fiction in Economics

Permission to Steal: Revealing the Roots of Corporate Scandal (Blackwell Public Philosophy Series)

Trust: Forms, Foundations, Functions, Failures and Figures

Market Structure and Competition Policy: Game-Theoretic Approaches

Democratic Phoenix: Reinventing Political Activism

A Not-so-dismal Science

Environmental Thought

Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice

Error in Economics: Towards a More Evidence-based Methodology

Egalitarian Perspectives: Essays in Philosophical Economics

The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought

The Legal-economic Nexus: Fundamental Processes

On Custom in the Economy

The Moral Conditions of Economic Efficiency

On Ethics and Economics

Economy and Morality: The Philosophy of the Welfare State

EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists are Transforming the World

The Values of Economics

Econometrics and the Philosophy of Economics: Theory-Data Confrontations in Economics

The Economics of Rights, Co-Operation and Welfare

Tocqueville's Political Economy

Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty-First Century

Eminent Economists: Their Life Philosophies

A Theory of Efficient Cooperation and Competition

Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

Economics and Culture

Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism

Methodological Foundations of Macroeconomics: Keynes and Lucas

The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee

The Struggle over the Soul of Economics: Institutionalist and Neoclassical Economists in America between the Wars

Moral Markets The Critical Role of Values in the Economy

A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 17611891 (Past and Present Publications)