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PhD Economics University of Helsinki
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According to Wikipedia, Ismo Uskali Mäki is a Finnish professor in the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki. He is also director of the Trends and tensions in Intellectual Integration centre, which was recently nominated "Finnish Centre of Excellence" in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Previous posts and roles have included his being a professor of philosophy at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam where he directed the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics and his being the editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology. His main research interests lie in the methodology of economics and the philosophy of the sciences including social sciences with his approach typically being described as a realist philosophy of economics. Mäki is currently serving as an Academy Professor for the Academy of Finland.

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Uskali Mäki's Published Works

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MISSing the World. Models as Isolations and Credible Surrogate Systems (2009) (248)
The Handbook of Economic Methodology (1998) (235)
On the method of isolation in economics, Idealization IV: Intelligibility in Science, edited by Craig Dilworth (1992) (232)
Models are experiments, experiments are models (2005) (185)
Fact and Fiction in Economics: Models, Realism and Social Construction (2003) (159)
Models and the locus of their truth (2011) (152)
Economics Imperialism (2009) (125)
Isolation, idealization and truth in economics (1994) (124)
The Economic World View: Studies in the Ontology of Economics (2001) (107)
Realistic Realism about Unrealistic Models (2009) (100)
Explanatory Unification (2001) (90)
Kinds of Assumptions and Their Truth: Shaking an Untwisted F-Twist (2000) (87)
Scientific realism and Austrian explanation (1990) (85)
The Methodology of Positive Economics: Reflections On The Milton Friedman Legacy (2009) (73)
How to Combine Rhetoric and Realism in the Methodology of Economics (1988) (73)
Theoretical isolation and explanatory progress: transaction cost economics and the dynamics of dispute (2004) (72)
Scientific Realism and Some Peculiarities of Economics (1996) (64)
Economics with institutions: Agenda for methodological inquiry (1993) (63)
Is Coase a Realist? (1998) (62)
Scientific Imperialism: Difficulties in Definition, Identification, and Assessment (2013) (61)
The one world and the many theories (2002) (58)
‘The methodology of positive economics’ (1953) does not give us the methodology of positive economics (2003) (58)
Unrealistic Assumptions and Unnecessary Confusions: Rereading and Rewriting F53? (2004) (43)
Universals and the methodenstreit: a re-examination of Carl Menger's conception of economics as an exact science (1997) (42)
The Economic World View: The way the world works (www): towards an ontology of theory choice (2001) (41)
Reglobalizing Realism by Going Local, or (How) Should Our Formulations of Scientific Realism be Informed about the Sciences? (2005) (39)
Performativity: Saving Austin from MacKenzie (2013) (39)
Is geographical economics imperializing economic geography (2011) (36)
Realism and the Nature of Theory: A Lesson from J H von Thünen for Economists and Geographers (2004) (36)
The Market as an Isolated Causal Process: A Metaphysical Ground for Realism (1992) (34)
SOCIAL THEORIES OF SCIENCE AND THE FATE OF INSTITUTIONALISM IN ECONOMICS (1993) (34)
Scientific realism as a challenge to economics (and vice versa) (2011) (33)
The truth of false idealizations in modeling (2011) (32)
Rhetoric at the expense of coherence: a reinterpretation of Milton Friedman's methodology (1986) (31)
On a paradox of truth, or how not to obscure the issue of whether explanatory models can be true (2013) (31)
Science as a Free Market: A Reflexivity Test in an Economics of Economics (1999) (30)
Reclaiming relevant realism (2000) (29)
Economic Epistemology: Hopes and Horrors (2005) (29)
Against Posner against Coase against Theory (1998) (28)
Social conditioning of economics (1992) (28)
Philosophy of interdisciplinarity. What? Why? How? (2016) (28)
Fact and Fiction in Economics: The dismal queen of the social sciences (2002) (27)
Realism and Antirealism About Economics (2012) (27)
On the structure of explanatory unification: the case of geographical economics (2009) (27)
Extra-academic transdisciplinarity and scientific pluralism: what might they learn from one another? (2016) (26)
Symposium on explanations and social ontology 2: explanatory ecumenism and economics imperialism (2002) (25)
Pursuing Quality and Consistency An interview with Jaap Abbring Intergenerational mobility : does success breed success ? Economics : The dismal queen of the social sciences (2004) (24)
Explanatory ecumenism and economics imperialism (2002) (23)
Rights and wrongs of economic modelling: refining Rodrik (2018) (23)
Economics and Methodology: Crossing Boundaries (1998) (23)
Models and Truth (2009) (20)
The Economic World View: Economic ontology: what? why? how? (2001) (20)
Practical syllogism, entrepreneurship, and the invisible hand: A critique of the analytic hermeneutics of G.H. von Wright (1990) (20)
When economics meets neuroscience: hype and hope (2010) (19)
Two portraits of economics (1996) (19)
Fact and Fiction in Economics: Some nonreasons for nonrealism about economics (2002) (18)
Scientific Imperialism: Exploring the Boundaries of Interdisciplinarity (2017) (17)
Scientific realism and ontology (2008) (17)
The Methodology of Positive Economics: Reading the methodological essay in twentieth-century economics: map of multiple perspectives (2009) (16)
Method and appraisal in economics, 1976–20061 (2008) (14)
Methodology of economics : complaints and guidelines (1990) (14)
Modelling failure (2016) (14)
The Narrow Notion of Realism in Human Geography (2004) (13)
Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science (2015) (13)
Remarks on Models and Their Truth (2006) (13)
Contested modelling: The case of economics (2012) (12)
Some non-reasons for non-realism about economics (2002) (12)
Studies in Realism and Explanation in Economics (1990) (11)
Introduction: interdisciplinary model exchanges. (2014) (11)
Performance against Dialogue, or Answering and Really Answering: A Participant Observer’s Reflections on the McCloskey Conversation (2000) (11)
Realism from the 'lands of Kaleva': an interview with Uskali Mäki (2008) (10)
On the philosophy of the new kiosk economics of everything (2012) (9)
Models: Philosophical Aspects (2001) (9)
Realism, Economics, and Rhetoric (1988) (9)
Philosophy of economics (2012) (9)
The Economic World View: Rationality and homo economicus (2001) (9)
Interdisciplinarity in action: philosophy of science perspectives (2016) (9)
Realisms and their Opponents: Philosophical Aspects (2001) (8)
Scientific progress: complexities of a contestable concept (2002) (8)
Methodology might matter, but Weintraub's meta-Methodology shouldn't (1994) (8)
The Problem of Social Coase: Between Regulation and Free Market in Economic Methodology (1998) (7)
Modeling in biology and economics (2011) (7)
Mark Blaug's unrealistic crusade for realistic economics (2014) (7)
Reflections on the Ontology of Money (2020) (7)
Early drafts of Friedman's methodology essay (2009) (6)
Two Philosophies of the Rhetoric of Economics (2020) (6)
Realisms and their opponents (2001) (6)
Puzzled by Idealizations and Understanding Their Functions (2020) (6)
Puzzled by realism: a response to Deichsel (2011) (5)
Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki (2015) (5)
Economics as a Process: Essays in the New Institutional Economics , Richard N. Langlois, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, ix + 262 pages. (1987) (5)
Economics as Usual: Geographical Economics Shaped by Disciplinary Conventions (2011) (5)
Comment on Hands (1991) (5)
Expected utility and Friedman's risky methodology (2009) (4)
Investigating Interdisciplinary Practice: Methodological Challenges (Introduction) (2019) (4)
Rereading and rewriting F53 as a realist statement (2007) (3)
Unrealistic assumptions and unnecessary confusions (2009) (3)
Issues in redescribing business firms (1985) (3)
Essay Symposium: Scientific Realism, Geography and Economics (2004) (3)
Fact and Fiction in Economics: The institutions of economics (2002) (3)
Varieties of Interdisciplinarity and of Scientific Progress (2007) (2)
Explanation as redescription (1987) (2)
The field: tasks, pasts, futures (2021) (2)
The failure of economics as a modelling failure (2012) (2)
Notes on economics imperialism and norms of scientific inquiry (2020) (2)
Homo Economicus Under Multiple Pressures (2021) (1)
Economics making markets is not performativity (2011) (1)
Scientific progress: complexities of a contestable concept: Knowledge, Truth and the History of Economic Thought (2002) (1)
Separateness, inexactness, and economic method (1998) (1)
Puzzled by realism : a response to Deichsel U SKALI (0)
Saving Austin from MacKenzie (2013) (0)
Introduction to the special issue: papers from the IX INEM Conference in Helsinki (2014) (0)
Interdisciplinary Model Exchanges (2014) (0)
The Economic World View: Preface (2001) (0)
Puzzled by realism (2011) (0)
The Archaeological Construction of the Past: Some Realist Moderations (2003) (0)
Ronald H. Coase.@@@The Legacy of Ronald Coase in Economic Analysis: Volume I@@@The Legacy of Ronald Coase in Economic Analysis: and Volume II. (1996) (0)
Imperialism : Difficulties in Definition , Identification , and Assessment (2012) (0)
Fact and Fiction in Economics: Preface (2002) (0)
How does scientific realism manage as a metatheory of management research (1983) (0)
Putnam's realism (2008) (0)
The Methodology of Positive Economics: Preface (2009) (0)
Extra-academic transdisciplinarity and scientific pluralism: what might they learn from one another? (2016) (0)
Philosophy of interdisciplinarity. What? Why? How? (2016) (0)
Interdisciplinarity in action: philosophy of science perspectives (2016) (0)
Introduction (2010) (0)
On a paradox of truth, or how not to obscure the issue of false explanatory models can be true (0)
Economic Epistemology : Hopes and (0)
Scientific realism and some Russia (2011) (0)
The Economic World View: Notes on the contributors (2001) (0)
Introduction to the Symposium (2002) (0)
The Philosophy of Economics: Realism (2007) (0)
On the issue of realism in the economics of institutions and organizations: themes from Coase and Richardson (2002) (0)
Arvostelu kirjasta 'Among Economists: Reflections of a Neo-Classical Post-Keynesian' (J. Pen) (1985) (0)
The functional decomposition approach (2009) (0)
Blaug ' s unrealistic crusade for realistic economics (0)
Notes on contributors (2000) (0)
Julian Reiss Models , Representation , and Economic Practice Commentary on Uskali Mäki (2013) (0)
Methodology and History of Economics (2022) (0)

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