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Response to Vinca Bigo
B. Davis, John
B. Davis, John
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"I do not believe that Vinca Bigo has quite grasped much of the argument of my book, particularly as regards her main complaint that the book is about tests and overlooks ontological analysis. The entire book is an exercise in ontological analysis, and the tests employed are a direct expression of it. The tests only have meaning within this context, as is argued in the first chapter and then summarized in the last. The primary focus of the book was indeed the evaluation of the two main conceptions of the individual in economics, given the centrality of the concept of the individual in mainstream economics, but this does not imply that the argument was not ontological in nature. In what follows, I will focus on the points where I believe Bigo most misunderstands my argument. 1. Bigo asserts that though I appear not to be unaware that my tests are embedded in a theory, I seek to distance myself from an initial ontological analysis."(pg 1)
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2005
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