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It is a privilege to have others comment upon one's own work, and I am extremely grateful to Allin Cottrell, Zohreh Emami, Tim Riordan, Roy Rotheim, and Alex Viskovatoff. I [...]

Tony Lawson's investigations into 'economics and reality' represent a transfer and extension into the domain of economics of a set of ideas first developed by Roy Bhaskar (1978) in relation [...]

I. INTRODUCTION As the title of this article implies, our primary focus in exploring the ideas proposed by Tony Lawson is the relationship between his perspective and teaching. Parker Palmer, [...]

This article reassesses critical realism's role as an underlabourer to the sciences and whether it is of any use to a Marxist analysis. It deals with some of the issues raised in the debate between regulation theorists and open Marxists whilst arguing that this debate does not do full credit to the scope of critical realism. Whilst a rejection of the regulation approach is necessary, it is also necessary to analyse forms of regulation and hegemonic strategies based on the fact that the social world is complexly stratified. However, this stratification also points to the dominant contradictions within capitalism and the centrality of struggle in shaping the social world.

It has been claimed that the ontological theories of Roy Bhaskar can provide guiding principles for social scientists, which can help steer them through errors and misconceptions. This article argues that neither Bhaskar's 'critical realism' nor any overarching philosophical ontology, can provide workable guiding principles for social scientific research, and that such principles are unnecessary.

Research is presented concerning the tight constrains which are placed on the work of R.H. Coase by a wants-based conception of policy objectives within his analysis of broadcasting. The influence of advertising and competition are discussed.