Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics

Abstract

The papers contained in this volume were delivered at Blackfriars Hall on 6 and 7 July 2018 in a symposium organized under the auspices of the Las Casas Institute. This was the fourth of a series of annual symposia held at Blackfriars with Economics as a Moral Science as the general title of the series, organized to explore the philosophical foundations of mainstream economics. The papers of the previous symposia and from workshops organized with the European SPES Institute in Cambridge, Oxford and Leuven have been edited by Peter Rona and Laszlo Zsolnai and published by Springer in two previous volumes, the first one, titled Economics as a Moral Science, published in 2017, while the second, titled Economic Objects and the Objects of Economics, appeared in 2018. The symposia at Blackfriars Hall grew out of a series of public lectures delivered in 2012–2014 by Peter Rona. Blackfriars Hall, the Las Casas Institute and the editors of this volume would like to express their gratitude to the Mallinckrodt Foundation for the generous financial support of the symposia.