@article{Deichsel_2011, title={Against the pragmatic justification for realism in economic methodology}, volume={4}, url={https://www.ejpe.org/journal/article/view/68}, DOI={10.23941/ejpe.v4i1.68}, abstractNote={<p>In recent times, realism in economic methodology has increasingly gained importance. Uskali Mäki and Tony Lawson are the best-known realists within the discipline and even though their approaches are fundamentally different, both provide (among others) pragmatic defences of realism by claiming anti-realism to be the reason for the low quality of (some) economic models. My paper will show that a pragmatic defence of realism is untenable and furthermore, I will show that for both Mäki’s and Lawson’s normative ideas there is no need for realism.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics}, author={Deichsel, Simon}, year={2011}, month={May}, pages={23–41} }