Paul A. Lewis

King's College London

Professor of Political Economy

Bush House

Aldwych

London, WC2R 2LS

United Kingdom

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1.

The Ostroms and Hayek as Theorists of Complex Adaptive Systems: Commonality and Complementarity

Forthcoming in Advances in Austrian Economics
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Mar 2017
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Elinor Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom, Bloomington School, Hayek, Austrian Economics, Complexity Theory

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Hayek: From Economics as Equilibrium Analysis to Economics as Social Theory

Forthcoming in R. Garrison and N.P. Barry (ed., 2014), The Elgar Companion to Hayek. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Jan 2015
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Hayek, order, equilibrium, ontology, Austrian economics.

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Austrian Economics and the Bloomington School: An Introduction and Overview

Forthcoming in Advances in Austrian Economics (special issue on the Austrian and Bloomington Schools), GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-24
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2017
Paul Dragos Aligica, Paul A. Lewis, Virgil Henry Storr and Virgil Henry Storr
George Mason University - Mercatus Center, King's College London and George Mason University - Department of EconomicsGeorge Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Austrian economics, Bloomington school, Hayek, Ostrom, public choice, Virginia School, poycentricity, ordo-liberalism

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Technicians and Innovation: A Literature Review

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Jul 2019
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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innovation, technicians, innovation systems, system failures, skills shortages, over-education, human capital, institutions, research and development, industrial policy, catapult centres

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Quasi-Markets: An Overview and Analysis

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Sep 2017
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Quasi-markets, competition, purchaser-provider split, efficiency, hard budget constraint, cream-skimming

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Systems, Structural Properties, and Levels of Organisation: The Influence of Ludwig Von Bertalanffy on the Work of F.A. Hayek.

Forthcoming in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 23 May 2015 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2015
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Hayek, Bertalanffy, Austrian economics, theoretical psychology, system theory, emergence, evolution

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Social Embeddedness, Social Capital and the Market Process: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Austrian Economics, Economic Sociology and Social Capital

Review of Austrian Economics (2008), 21: 107-18
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Dec 2014
Paul A. Lewis and Emily L. Chamlee-Wright
King's College London and Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University
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Austrian economics, economic sociology, trust, social capital

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Ontology and the History of Economic Thought: An Introduction

the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Sep 2020
Paul A. Lewis, Mário da Graça Moura and Jochen Runde
King's College London, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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social ontology, the history of economic thought, heterodox economics, economic methodology

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Epistemic Institutionalism: Rules and Order, Complexity, and Liberalism

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 May 2019
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Hayek, institutions, knowledge, complexity, liberalism, rules, order

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Elinor Ostrom’s ‘Realist Orientation’: An Investigation of the Ontological Commitments of her Analysis of the Possibility of Self-Governance

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Nov 2020
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Elinor Ostrom, social ontology, self-governance, realism, history of economic thought

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Purposeful Behaviour, Expectations, and the Mirage of Social Justice: The Influence of Cybernetics on the Thought of F.A. Hayek

Prepared for the History of Economics Society meeting, Durham NC, 2016
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Jun 2016
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Hayek, Cybernetics, Complexity, Feedback, Psychology, Purpose, Action, Catallaxay, Order, Social Justice

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Peter Berger and His Critics: The Significance of Emergence

Society (2010), vol. 47: 213-20.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 17 Dec 2014
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Berger, social ontology, structure-agency relationship, emergence

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The Emergence of 'Emergence' in the Work of F.A. Hayek: An Historical Analysis

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 10 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Hayek, emergence, emergent properties, theoretical psychology, ontology, organisation, system theory

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Technician Roles, Skills, and Training in Industrial Biotechnology: An Analysis

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 09 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2017
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Technicians, Apprenticeships, Training, Advanced manufacturing, industrial biotechnology

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Uncertainty, Conventional Behavior, and Economic Sociology

Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Working Paper No. 339
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Oct 2001
Jörg Bibow, Paul A. Lewis and Jochen Runde
Skidmore College - Department of Economics, King's College London and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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New Austrian Macro Theory: A Call for Inquiry

Review of Austrian Economics, Forthcoming, GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 16-26
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Jul 2016
Paul A. Lewis and Richard E. Wagner
King's College London and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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structure of production; dispersed knowledge; equilibrium vs. non-equilibrium theory; creative systems theory; macro-foundations for micro

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F.A. Hayek on the Political Economy of Endogenous Preferences: An Historical Overview and Contemporary Assessment

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Jun 2021
Malte F. Dold and Paul A. Lewis
Pomona College - Department of Economics and King's College London
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Friedrich August von Hayek; Endogenous Preferences; Behavioural Economics; The-oretical Psychology; Political Economy

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The Innovation Systems Approach: An Austrian and Ostromian Perspective

Review of Austrian Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Apr 2020
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Innovation Systems, Austrian Economics, Complexity, Rules, Polycentricity, Uncertainty

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Shackle on Choice, Imagination and Creativity: Hayekian Foundations

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2016
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Shackle, Hayek, psychology, mind, emergence, choice, uncertainty, imagination

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Ontology and the History of Economic Thought: The Case of Anti-Reductionism in the Work of Friedrich Hayek

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 May 2016 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2017
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Hayek, social ontology, reductionism, emergence, Lawson

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James Buchanan on the Nature of Choice: Ontology, Artifactual man, and the Constitutional Moment in Political Economy

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Jun 2019
Paul A. Lewis and Malte F. Dold
King's College London and Pomona College - Department of Economics
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Buchanan, social ontology, choice, constitutional economics, identity, uncertainty, capabilities, institutions, social rules, institutions

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Orders, Orders, Everywhere … on Hayek's The Market and Other Orders

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2015
Paul A. Lewis and Peter Lewin
King's College London and University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management - Department of Finance & Managerial Economics
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Hayek, Austrian economics, spontaneous order, complexity, emergence

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The Simple Economics of Apprenticeship

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Oct 2016
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Apprenticeships, economics, training, human capital theory

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Innovation, Austrian economics, Lachmann, capital, entrepreneurship, complexity, social rules

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New Perspectives on Emergence in Economics

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 82 (2-3): 329-37, 2012
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Aug 2015
David A. Harper and Paul A. Lewis
New York University (NYU) and King's College London
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Emergence, complexity, evolution, agent-based modelling, spontaneous order, self-organisation

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Notions of Order and Process in Hayek: The Significance of Emergence

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, DOI: 10.1093/cje/beu043
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Dec 2014
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Hayek, order, process, emergence, ontology, Austrian economics

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How to Create Skills for an Emerging Industry: The Case of Technician Skills and Training in Cell Therapy

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Jan 2017
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Technicians, apprenticeships, cell therapy, regenerative medicine, training, advanced manufacturing, catapult centres

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Hayek, Social Theory and the Contrastive Explanation of Socio-Economic Order

Critical Review Vol. 25, Nos. 3-4
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Dec 2014
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Hayek, Austrian economics, scientism, ontology, comparative institutional analysis

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The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand: Reflections on a Recurring Theme in Classical Liberal Political Economy

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Dec 2022
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Invisible hand, rules, order, institutions, evolution.

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Emergent Properties in the Work of Friedrich Hayek

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 82: 368-78 (2012)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Sep 2015
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Hayek; emergence; emergent properties; downward causation; social ontology; spontaneous order; social order; mind.

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Recent Developments in Economic Methodology: The Rhetorical and Ontological Turns

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 Jan 2016
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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critical realism, economic methodology, ontology, pragmatism, rhetoric

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Subjectivism, Social Structure and the Possibility of Socio-Economic Order: The Case of Ludwig Lachmann

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 62, No. 2, February 2007
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Dec 2014
Paul A. Lewis and Jochen Runde
King's College London and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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Austrian economics, subjectivism, institutions, social structure, socio-economic order, ontology, Ludwig Lachmann

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Flying High? A Study of Technician Duties, Skills, and Training in the UK Aerospace Industry

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 07 Jan 2017
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Technicians, Apprenticeships, Manufacturing, Aerospace

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Space for Technicians?: An Analysis of Technician Duties, Skills and Training in the UK Space Industry

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Nov 2016
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Technicians, Apprenticeships, Manufacturing, Space

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Far from a Nihilistic Crowd: The Theoretical Contribution of Radical Subjectivist Austrian Economics.

Review of Austrian Economics, 2011, vol. 24: 185-98
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Dec 2014
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Austrian economics, hermeneutics, social order, nihilism, social ontology, emergence, Ludwig Lachmann, Don Lavoie.

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An Analytical Core for Sociolgy: A Complex, Hayekian Analysis

Review of Behavioral Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Nov 2014
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Gintis, complexity, evolution, emergence, Hayek, reductionism, behavioral economics, equilibrium, order, uncertainty.

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The Bloomington School, as seen from Virginia: Levels of Analysis; Social Ontology; Schools of Thought; and Policy Implications.

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Feb 2022
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, James Buchanan, Virginia political economy, self-governance

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Apprenticeships

In D. Guest and D. Needle (eds., 2014), Wiley Encyclopaedia of Management, Volume 5: Human Resource Management. 3rd edition. Oxford: Blackwell.
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 08 Apr 2017
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Apprenticeships, economics, training, human capital theory, human resource management

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Tensions and Ambiguities in Hayek’s Social Theory: Ontology, Methodology, Substantive Claims, and Self-Description

Hayek's Tensions: Re-examining the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of F. A. Hayek. Edited by S. Haeffle, S. Stein and V. Storr (George Mason University: Mercatus Center, 2020)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 Mar 2022
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Hayek, system theory, complexity, emergence, cybernetics, individualism, structure-agency relationship.

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Skills and Training for Composites Manufacturing and Use in the UK: An Analysis

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 12 Dec 2016
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Technicians, Apprenticeships, Training, Manufacturing, Composites

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Editor's Introduction to 'Essays on Liberalism and the Economy: The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 18'

Essays on Liberalism and the Economy, Volume 18, edited by Paul Lewis, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, pp. xiii-lxxx. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226781471-002
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 06 Sep 2023
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Hayek

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Certainly Not! A Critical Realist Recasting of Ludwig Von Mises’s Methodology of the Social Sciences

Journal of Economic Methodology (2010), 17(3): 277-99
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Jan 2015
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Austrian economics; Ludwig von Mises; praxeology; private language

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Varieties of Emergence: Minds, Markets and Novelty

STUDIES IN EMERGENT ORDER, VOL 4 (2011): 170-192
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2014
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Emergence, complexity, Austrian Economics, ontology, spontaneous order, novelty

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Developing Technician Skills for Emerging Industries: Lessons from the Advanced Therapies Sector in the UK

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 03 Aug 2017
Paul A. Lewis and Tony Bradshaw
King's College London and Bradshaw Talent Management Ltd
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Technicians, Apprenticeships, Cell Therapy, Regenerative Medicine, Training, Advanced Manufacturing, Catapult Centres

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Technicians under the Microscope: A Study of the Skills and Training of University Laboratory and Engineering Workshop Technicians

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 09 Jan 2017
Paul A. Lewis and Howard Gospel
King's College London and King's College London - The Management Centre
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Technicians, Apprenticeships, Universities, Science, Engineering

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The Missing Middle: Technicians, Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing

The Training We Need Now: Essays on Technical Training, Life-long Learning and Apprenticeships, ed. D. Goodhart (London: Policy Exchange, 2020)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 01 Jul 2020
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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training, technicians, skills, advanced manufacturing, apprenticeships, system failure

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Structure, Agency and Causality in Post-Revival Austrian Economics: Tensions and Resolutions

Review of Political Economy, 17, 291-316 (2005)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Sep 2015
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Austrian economics, critical realism, causality, social structure, social ontology

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A Neglected Topos in Behavioural Normative Economics: The Opportunity and Process Aspect of Freedom

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 30 Dec 2022
Malte F. Dold and Paul A. Lewis
Pomona College - Department of Economics and King's College London
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Amartya Sen, Agency, Behavioral Public Policy, Opportunities, Process Freedom, Robert Sugden

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Turning to Reality? A Review Essay on Tony Lawson's Reorienting Economics

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 14 Dec 2014
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Social ontology, critical realism, heterodox economics, Austrian economics.

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Boettke, the Austrian School and the Reclamation of Reality in Modern Economics

The Review of Austrian Economics, 18:1, 83–108, 2005
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Nov 2016
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Austrian economics, ontology, realism, power

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Technician Roles, Skills and Training in the UK Chemical Industry: An Analysis

Gatsby, 2013
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Jan 2017
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Technicians, Apprenticeships, Manufacturing, Chemicals

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Tempered Steele? On the Merits of Critical Realism and the ‘Ontological Turn’ in Economics

(2011): Critical Review, 23: 207-30
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Dec 2014
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Economics, ontology, critical realism

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Uncertainty, Power and Trust

Review of Austrian Economics, 21: 183-98 (2008)
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Dec 2016
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Trust, Power, Methodological individualism, Radical subjectivism, Reciprocity

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Solving the ‘Lachmann Problem’: Orientation, Individualism and the Causal Explanation of Socio-Economic Order

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 Oct 2016
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Austrian economics, Ludwig Lachmann, causation, structure-agency relationship, methodological individualism

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Introduction to: 'Transforming Economics - Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project'

Transforming Economics: Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project, 2004
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2016
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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critical realism,ontology, the methodology of economics, heterodox economics

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The Role of External Inspection in the Public Services: The Case of the UK Training Market

Public Administration, September 2008
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 10 Jan 2016
Paul A. Lewis and Paul Ryan
King's College London and King’s College London - Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
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The Over-Training of Apprentices by Employers in Advanced Manufacturing: A Theoretical and Policy Analysis

Human Resource Management Journal (2014), 24 (4): 496-513
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 Nov 2014
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Apprenticeships, training, human capital, technicians, human resource management, skills policy

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A Hard Sell? The Prospects for Apprenticeship in British Retailing

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Dec 2014
Paul A. Lewis, Paul Ryan and Howard Gospel
King's College London, King’s College London - Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy and King's College London - The Management Centre
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Apprenticeship, human capital, training, skills, human resource management, education, retailing.

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Agency, Structure and Causality in Political Science: A Comment on Sibeon

Politics, Vol. 22(1), p. 17–23, 2002
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Jul 2017
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Agency, Structure, Ontology, Causality, Political Science

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The Over-Training of Apprentices by Large Employers in Advanced Manufacturing in the UK

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Jan 2017
Paul A. Lewis
King's College London
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Apprenticeships, Training, Human Capital, Technicians, Human Resource Management

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Introduction to: Commerce and Community - Ecologies of Social Cooperation.

Commerce and Community: Ecologies of Social Cooperation. Edited by R. Garnett, P. Lewis, and L. Ealy. London and New York: Routledge. (2015)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 25 Apr 2017
Robert F. Garnett, Paul A. Lewis and Lenore Thomas Ealy
Texas Christian University - Department of Economics, King's College London and The Philanthropic Enterprise
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commerce, community, philanthropy, self-interest, benevolence