Stephen Pratten

Stephen Pratten’s primary research area is the methodology of economics, focussing particularly on issues related to social ontology and realist theorising. He has also been involved in a series of empirical projects examining structural and regulatory change in the media industries.

He is co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics and a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research. After completing his PhD in the Economics Faculty at the University of Cambridge he became a Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research before joining King’s College London in 1999.

Publications

• Positioning and the Nature of Social Objects 22 August 2018
• Causality, Agency and Change 01 January 2020
• Dewey on Organisation 24 December 2019
• Social Ontology and Modern Economics 01 January 2015
• Coase on the Nature and Assessment of Social Institutions 01 January 2016
• Cambridge Social Ontology: Clarification, Development and Deployment 28 August 2017
• Trust and the Social Positioning Process 28 August 2017
• The scope of ontological theorising 01 January 2014
• Dewey on habit, character, order and reform 01 July 2015
• Needs and wants: the case of broadcasting policy 01 July 1998