I. Introduction:
Dismal queen of the social sciences / Uskali Mäki
II. Setting the scene:
Ugly currents in modern economics / Mark Blaug
Modern economics and its critics / Partha Dasgupta
Some nonreasons for nonrealism about economics / Uskali Mäki
III. Economic models and economic reality:
Credible worlds: the status of theoretical models in economics / Robert Sugden
Limits of causal order, from economics to physics / Nancy Cartwright
Econometrics and reality / Kevin D. Hoover
Models, stories, and the economic world / Mary S. Morgan
Economic models and reality: the role of informal scientific methods / Roger E. Backhouse
Truthlikeness and economic theories / Ilkka Niiniluoto
IV. The constitution of economic reality:
Rational choice, functional selection, and "empty black boxes" / Philip Pettit
Reality of common cultures / Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap
Collective acceptance and collective attitudes: on the social construction of social reality / Raimo Tuomela, Wolfgang Balzer
Hayek and cultural evolution / Bruce Caldwell
Putting evidence in its place: John Mill's early struggles with "facts in the concrete" / Neil De Marchi
V. The institutions of economics:
You shouldn't want a realism if you have a rhetoric / Deirdre N. McCloskey
More things change, the more they stay the same: social realism in contemporary science studies / D. Wade Hands
Economists: truth-seekers or rent-seekers? / Jesús P. Zamora Bonilla