Realism for Social Sciences: A Translational Approach to Methodology

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Ken Urai received the BS MS and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Osaka University Osaka Japan in 1985 1987 and 2005 respectively.  From 1988 to 1991 he worked as an assistant professor at the Institution of Social and Economic Research in Osaka University (ISER) and from 1991 to 1995 as a lecturer at the Department of Economics of Kyoto Sangyo University Kyoto Japan.  In 1995 he joined the Department of Economics of Osaka University as an associate professor. Since 2008 he has been a Professor in the Graduate School of Economics Osaka University.  He specialized in mathematical economics general equilibrium theory cooperative and non-cooperative game theory and fixed point theory. Dr. Urai served as a vice-president of the Japanese Society for Mathematical Economics (2013-2014 2019-2022) and as a board member of the Japan Society for Process Studies (2022-present) and has contributed to dozens of books and journal papers.  Masaaki Katsuragi is associate professor at the Graduate School of Economics Osaka University teaching Economic Philosophy and Methodology specifically following a realist tradition established in the last three decades in Cambridge UK. At first he made research into Japanese service industries in the graduate school of economics at Kyoto University and obtained a grant as JSPS research fellow at Kyoto Institute of Economic Research (KIER). The turning point came in 1999 when he attended the Cambridge Realist Workshop for the first time as a visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Later he became a graduate student at the Judge Business School Cambridge. Since then he is a member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group.  Yoshiyuki Takeuchi is an Associate Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics at the Graduate School of Economics and the Center for Mathematical Modeling and Data Science Osaka University. He was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Fukushima University from 1989 to 1992. His research interests focus on data science including statistics. In addition he has been working on the history of statistical thought in particular the migration of mathematical statistics into Japan and the anthropology of business administration. He is the author of On a Statistical Method to Detect Discontinuity in the Distribution Function of Reported Earnings (Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 64(1) 2004). He is co-editor of Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization (2016) and Translating and Incorporating American Management Thought into Japan (2022).