This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Maki's realist philosophy of economics.

Aki Lehtinen is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland

Jaakko Kuorikoski is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland

Petri Ylikoski is Deputy Director of Trends and Tensions in Intellectual Integration (TINT), Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland

Introduction Aki LehtinenPart I: Isolating Truth in Economic Models 1. Saving Truth for Economics Frank Hidriks 2. The Verisimilitude of Economic Models Ilkka Niniluoto 3. Maki's MISS Daniel M. Housman 4. Maki's Three Notions of Isolation Till Grune-Yanoff 5. Theoretical Isolation and the Dyanmics of Dispute: Going beyond Maki's De- and Re-Isolation Jack Vromen Part II: The commonsensical Basis of Economics 6. Are Preferences for Real? Choice Theory, Folk Psychology, and the Hard Case for Commonsensible Realism Francesco Guala 7. Realism, Commonsensibiles, and Economics: The Case of Contemorary Revealed Preference Theory D. Wade HandsPart III: The Proper Domain of Economics 8. Maki's Realism and the Scope of Economics Don Ross 9. Maki on Economics Imperialism John B. Davis Part IV: Rethinking Realism(s) 10. Pragmatism, Perspectival Realism, and Econometrics Kevin D. Hoover 11. Conversation, Realism and Inference: Revisiting the Rhetoric vs. Realism Dispute Jesus Zamora-Bonilla 12. How to be Critical and Realist about Economics Jaako Kuorikoski and Petri Ylikoski