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Tony Lawson is a British philosopher and economist.He is professor of economics and philosophy in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, a former director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, and co-founder of the Cambridge Realist Workshop and the Cambridge Social Ontology Group.
Professor Tony Lawson 's new book "The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology" has been published by Routledge. It is part of their Economics as Social Theory series. - Published on: Wednesday 12th June 2019. Conference Marking 25 Years of the Cambridge Realist Workshop.
Tony Lawson’s latest work The Nature of Social Reality is an unusual read from the standard point of view of an economist, but nonetheless one fully worth the effort. Why this is so requires some extended discussion of context, providing a narrative that explains the development of his thinking.
Tony Lawson is a trained mathematician located in the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge University. His work spreads over various fields, but it focuses primarily in the philosophy of social sciences, in particular: social ontology. Amongst his publications are the Routledge monographs Economics and Reality (1997) and Reorienting Economics (2003).
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Tony Lawson Jamie Morgan In Part 1 of this wide-ranging interview Tony Lawson first discusses his role in the formation of IACR and how he relates to the generalized use of the term ‘Critical ...
The (confused) state of equilibrium analysis in modern economics: an explanation. Tony Lawson, University of Cambridge, Economics Department, Faculty Member. Studies Social Ontology, Ethics, and Political Economy. Professor of philosophy and economics Researcher in social ontology, especially social positioning theory Member.
"Tony Lawson is famous for being the most powerful and effective critic of mainstream economics. His criticism is made more effective by the fact that he has an alternative conception of economics and indeed the rest of the social sciences, a conception deriving from his ontological theorising.
