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    Critical realism in economics: development and debate.Steve Fleetwood (ed.) - 1999 - New York: Routledge.
    There is a growing perception among economists that their field is becoming increasingly irrelevant due to its disregard for reality. Critical realism addresses the failure of mainstream economics to explain economic reality and proposes an alternative approach. This book debates the relative strengths and weaknesses of critical realism, in the hopes of developing a more fruitful and relevant socio-economic ontology and methodology. With contributions from some of the leading authorities in economic philosophy, it includes the work of theorists critical of (...)
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    The critical realist conception of open and closed systems.Steve Fleetwood - 2017 - Journal of Economic Methodology 24 (1):41-68.
    The critical realist conception of open and closed systems is not about systems: it is about regularities in the flux of events and states of affairs. It has recently been criticised on the grounds that critical realists should take on board ideas about the general nature of systems; recognise that genuinely open social systems would be impossible; avoid polarities or dualisms where either there are event regularities and open systems, or there are no event regularities and closed systems and accept (...)
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    Institutions and Social Structures1.Steve Fleetwood - 2008 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 38 (3):241-265.
    This paper clarifies the terms “institutions” and “social structures” and related terms “rules”, “conventions”, “norms”, “values” and “customs”. Part one explores the similarities between institutions and social structures whilst the second and third parts explore differences. Part two considers institutions, rules, habits or habitus and habituation, whilst part three critically reflects on three common conceptions of social structures. The conclusion comments upon reflexive deliberation via the internal conversation.
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    Powers and Tendencies Revisited.Steve Fleetwood - 2011 - Journal of Critical Realism 10 (1):80-99.
    While powers and tendencies are among the most fundamen- tal concepts of critical realism, there are several problems with these concepts that have been ignored, avoided or glossed. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to tease out these problems and provide clarification and consistency where possible. In the first section of the paper I sketch the existing critical realist conceptualization of tendencies by identifying eight distinct moments in a causal chain, denoted tendency1 to tendency8. In section two I ask: (...)
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    The Ontology of Things, Properties and Powers.Steve Fleetwood - 2009 - Journal of Critical Realism 8 (3):343-366.
    Whilst the concept of causal powers is central to much post-positivist social science in general, and to critical realism in particular, it has not been significantly developed by critical realists since the initial work of Harré and Madden and Bhaskar in the mid-1970s. To deepen our understanding of powers we need to start with a ‘package’ of related terms. In §1 of the paper I introduce this package, clear up some terminological ambiguity and inconsistency, and focus the discussion upon things, (...)
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    Critical Realism and Marxism.Andrew Brown, Steve Fleetwood, Michael Roberts & John Michael Roberts - 2002 - Psychology Press.
    Critical Realism and Marxism addresses controversial debates, revealing a potentially fruitful relationship; deepening our understanding of the social world and contibuting towards eliminating barbarism in contemporary capitalism.
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    Gender at Critical Realism Conferences.Caroline New & Steve Fleetwood - 2006 - Journal of Critical Realism 5 (1):61-91.
    This paper reports the findings of a case study of recent IACR conferences where subtle, but significant, gender differences in conference participation were observed. It goes on to use notions of gender order, agency and structure, styles and genres to explain the key causal factors that generate these differences. It concludes with some suggestions about how these gender differences could be minimised in future conferences.
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    ‘From Political Economy to Economics’ and Beyond.Steve Fleetwood - 2012 - Historical Materialism 20 (3):61-80.
    Ben Fine and Dimitris Milonakis have done political economy a great service by drawing attention to the insights lost in the twists, turns and reductions in the transition from political economy to economics. These two volumes constitute a solid foundation upon which a new generation can build a political economy for the future. This review presses some of their meta-theoretical arguments a little further than they actually do in an attempt to ‘toughen-up’ the new political economy and make it more (...)
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    (1 other version)Transforming Economics Through Critical Realism — Themes and Issues.Paul Downward, Sheila Dowi & Steve Fleetwood - 2006 - Journal of Critical Realism 5 (1):139-182.
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    Conceptualizing Future Labour Markets.Steve Fleetwood - 2014 - Journal of Critical Realism 13 (3):233-260.
    An enquiry into what future labour markets might look like is, necessarily, an enquiry into what future labour market institutions might look like. Any such enquiry requires a conceptual apparatus capable of dealing with labour markets and institutions. The conceptual apparatus of orthodox labour economics is incapable of this. An alternative conceptual apparatus, the ‘socio-economics of labour markets’, augmented with critical realist metatheory, is capable of dealing with future labour markets. This claim is demonstrated via the example of future labour (...)
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  11. 3 Conceptualizing unemployment in a period of atypical employment.Steve Fleetwood - 2003 - In Paul Downward (ed.), Applied Economics and the Critical Realist Critique. New York: Routledge. pp. 27.
     
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    Organizing for Alternative Futures: From the Philosophy of Science to the Science of Human Flourishing.Steve Fleetwood, Nick Wilson & Lee Martin - 2014 - Journal of Critical Realism 13 (3):225-232.
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    Regressive/Progressive..Steve Fleetwood - 1998 - Journal of Critical Realism 1 (1):22-23.
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  14. Themes and issues: Rejoinder to Sheila Dow and Paul Downward.Steve Fleetwood - 2006 - Journal of Critical Realism 5 (1):169-182.
     
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    Themes and issues: Reply to Shelia Dow and Paul Downward.Steve Fleetwood - 2006 - Journal of Critical Realism 5 (1):158-165.
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    Regressive/progressive...: Review of Breaking with the Enlightenment: The Twilight of History and the Rediscovery of Utopia by Rajani Kanth. [REVIEW]Steve Fleetwood - 2002 - Journal of Critical Realism 1 (1).
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