Abstract: Introduction: The New Philosophy of Economics – Laws, Causation, and Economic Methodology – If Economics Is a Science, What Kind of a Science Is It? – Realistic Realism about Unrealistic Models – Why There Is (as Yet) No Such Thing as an Economics of Knowledge – Rationality and Indeterminacy – Experimental Investigations of Social Preferences – Competing Conceptions of the Individual in Recent Economics – Integrating the Dynamics of Multiscale Economic Agency – Methodological Issues in Experimental Design and Interpretation – Progress in Economics: Lessons from the Spectrum Auctions – Advancing Evolutionary Explanations in Economics: The Limited Usefulness of Tinbergen's Four-Question Classification – Computational Economics – Microfoundations and the Ontology of Macroeconomics – Causality, Invariance, and Policy – The Miracle of the Septuagint and the Promise of Data Mining in Economics – Explaining Growth – Segmented Labor Market Models in Developing Countries – What Is Welfare and How Can We Measure It? – Interpersonal Comparison of Utility – Subjective Measures of Well-Being: Philosophical Perspectives – Facts and Values in Modern Economics

Keywords: causation, concept, evolution, experiment, explanation, individual, interpretation, knowledge, method, methodology, miracle, model, ontology, philosophy, progress, promise, rational, rationality, subject, utility, value, models