@proceedings{19446,
   author = {Likavčan, Lukáš},
   booktitle = {ASSOCIATION FOR HETERODOX ECONOMICS “17th Annual Conference”, 2-4 July 2015 – Southampton Solent University},
   keywords = {Actor-network-theory, causal regularities, collective events, critical realism, flat ontology},
   title = {Reconsidering critical realism: an environmentalist’s perspective},
   url = {http://hetecon.net/division.php?page=ahe_conferences},
   year = {2015}
}

TY  - CONF
ID  - 19446
AU  - Likavčan, Lukáš
PY  - 2015
TI  - Reconsidering critical realism: an environmentalist’s perspective
KW  - Actor-network-theory, causal regularities, collective events, critical realism, flat ontology
UR  - http://hetecon.net/division.php?page=ahe_conferences
N2  - In this paper, I discuss the compatibility of heterodox and ecological economics. Taking critical realism as a unifying ontology for heterodox economics, I argue that there is a radical dissonance between ontological presuppositions of ecological economics and heterodox traditions that adopt critical realist’s perspective. The dissonance lies in the need of ecologically oriented economic schools to state strict causal regularities in socio-economic realm, given the environmental intuitions about the nature of economy and the role of materiality and non-human agency in persistence of economic systems. The paper uses conceptual apparatus derived from Andrew Brown’s critique of critical realism and Bruno Latour’s Actor-network-theory.
ER  - 

LIKAVČAN, Lukáš. Reconsidering critical realism: an environmentalist’s perspective. In \textit{ASSOCIATION FOR HETERODOX ECONOMICS “17th Annual Conference”, 2-4 July 2015 – Southampton Solent University}. 2015.