Professor Stephen Pratten
Professor of Economics and Philosophy
Research interests
- Economics
Biography
Stephen Pratten is a Professor in Economics and Philosophy at King's Business School. Stephen’s primary research area is the methodology and philosophy of economics with a particular focus on issues related to social ontology and realist theorising.
His research also covers topics in the history of economic thought. He teaches on both undergraduate and post graduate programmes and lectures on social science methodology and industrial organisation.
He is a 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.
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Money and its Body in the Social Positioning and Credit Perspectives: Review Article of Samuel A. Chambers' Money Has No Value
Pratten, S., 1 Jul 2024, In: CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL ECONOMY. 43, 1, p. 249-274 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Concept of Function in Social positioning Theory
Pratten, S., 12 Dec 2023, In: JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. 53, 4, p. 560-582 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Veblen, Marshall and neoclassical economics
Pratten, S., Feb 2023, In: Journal of Classical Sociology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Social positioning theory and Dewey’s ontology of persons, objects and offices
Pratten, S., 22 Mar 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Critical Realism. 21, 3, p. 288-308 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Causality, Agency and Change
Pratten, S. B., 1 Jan 2020, Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics. Rona, P. & Zsolnai, L. (eds.). Springer, p. 21-35 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Social positioning and Commons's monetary theorising
Pratten, S., 28 Aug 2020, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 44, 5, p. 1137-1157 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Dewey on Organisation
Pratten, S. B., 24 Dec 2019, In: European Journal Of Pragmatism and American Philosophy. 11, 2, p. 1 18 p., 8.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Positioning and the Nature of Social Objects
Pratten, S. B., 22 Aug 2018, Economic Objects and the Objects of Economics. Rona, P. & Zsolnai, L. (eds.). SpringerResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Cambridge Social Ontology: Clarification, Development and Deployment
Pratten, S. B., Faulkner, P. & Runde, J., 28 Aug 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 41, 5, p. 1265-1277 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Trust and the Social Positioning Process
Pratten, S. B., 28 Aug 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 41, 5, p. 1419-1436Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Coase on the Nature and Assessment of Social Institutions
Pratten, S. B., 1 Jan 2016, The Elgar Companion to Ronald H. Coase. Menard, C. (ed.). Cheltenham, p. 110-130 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Dewey on habit, character, order and reform
Pratten, S., 1 Jul 2015, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 39, 4, p. 1031-1052 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Social Ontology and Modern Economics
Pratten, S. B., 1 Jan 2015, London: Routledge.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
The scope of ontological theorising
Pratten, S., 1 Jan 2014, Social Ontology and Modern Economics. Taylor and Francis, p. 68-94 27 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Critical Realism and the Process Account of Emergence
Pratten, S., Sept 2013, (E-pub ahead of print) In: JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. 43, 3, p. 251-279 29 p., N/A.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Essentialism and the social
Pratten, S., May 2012, In: The Sociological Review. 60, 2, p. 241-266 26 p., N/A.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Critical Realism and Causality: Tracing the Aristotelian Legacy
Pratten, S., Jun 2009, In: JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. 39, 2, p. 189-218 30 p., N/A.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference paper
No “third way” for economic organization? Networks and quasi-markets in broadcasting
Deakin, S., Lourenco, A. & Pratten, S., 2009, In: INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE. 18, 1, p. 51 - 75 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Commentary: the scope of public service broadcasting
Pratten, S. & Deakin, S., 2005, In: OCCASIONAL PAPERS- INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS. 133, p. 82 - 96 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Economics as progress: the LSE approach to econometric modelling and critical realism as programmes for research
Pratten, S., Mar 2005, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 29, 2, p. 179 - 205 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Transaction cost economics
Pratten, S., 2005, International Encyclopaedia of Economic Sociology. Beckert, J. & Zafirovski, M. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 679 - 683 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Mathematical formalism in economics: consequences and alternatives
Pratten, S., Jun 2004, In: ECONOMIC AFFAIRS. 24, 2, p. 37 - 42 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reclaiming history: a reply to weintraub
Pratten, S., Sept 2004, In: ECONOMIC AFFAIRS. 24, 3, p. 50 - 52 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Conflict between Formalism and Realisticness in Modern Economics: The Case of the New Institutional Economics
Pratten, S., 2004, The Elgar companion to economics and philosophy. Davis, J. B., Marciano, A. & Rune, J. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 339 - 363 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Introduction to special issue on critical realism
Pratten, S., Blackenberg, S., Lawson, C., Lawson, T., Lewis, P. & Runde, J., 2002, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 26, 6, p. 679 - 681 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Coase on broadcasting, advertising and policy
Pratten, S., 2001, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 25, 5, p. 617 - 638 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Competitiveness policy and economic organization: the case of the British film industry
Pratten, S. & Deakin, S., Jun 2000, In: Screen. 41, 2, p. 217 - 237 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Quasi Markets, Transaction Costs and Trust: The Uncertain Effects of Market Reforms in British Television Production
Deakin, S. & Pratten, S., 2000, In: Television & New Media. 1, 3, p. 321-354 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The evolving rationality of rational expectations: An assessment of Thomas Sargent's achievements.
Pratten, S., 2000, In: Isis. 91, 2, p. 424 - 425 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Reinventing the market? Competition and regulatory change in broadcasting
Deakin, S. & Pratten, S., Sept 1999, In: Journal of Law and Society. 26, 3, p. 323-350 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Marshall on tendencies, equilibrium, and the statical method
Pratten, S., 1998, In: HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. 30, 1, p. 121-163 43 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Needs and wants: the case of broadcasting policy
Pratten, S., Jul 1998, In: Media Culture & Society. 20, 3, p. 381-+ 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The nature of transaction cost economics
Pratten, S., Sept 1997, In: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ISSUES. 31, 3, p. 781-803 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Realism, underlabouring and institutions
Lawson, C., Peacock, M. & Pratten, S., Jan 1996, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 20, 1, p. 137-151 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › peer-review
The ''closure'' assumption as a first step: Neo-Ricardian economics and Post-Keynesianism
Pratten, S., 1996, In: REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY. 54, 4, p. 423-443 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research
Social Ontology Research Unit
The Social Ontology Research Unit was formed to pursue interdisciplinary activities concerned with social ontology.
Project status: Ongoing
Events
Workshop: Advances in Social Positioning Theory
The purpose of this workshop is to take stock, reflect upon the basic principles of social positioning theory and consider how it can be used.
Please note: this event has passed.
Money and its Body in the Social Positioning and Credit Perspectives: Review Article of Samuel A. Chambers' Money Has No Value
Pratten, S., 1 Jul 2024, In: CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL ECONOMY. 43, 1, p. 249-274 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Concept of Function in Social positioning Theory
Pratten, S., 12 Dec 2023, In: JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. 53, 4, p. 560-582 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Veblen, Marshall and neoclassical economics
Pratten, S., Feb 2023, In: Journal of Classical Sociology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Social positioning theory and Dewey’s ontology of persons, objects and offices
Pratten, S., 22 Mar 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Critical Realism. 21, 3, p. 288-308 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Causality, Agency and Change
Pratten, S. B., 1 Jan 2020, Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics. Rona, P. & Zsolnai, L. (eds.). Springer, p. 21-35 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Social positioning and Commons's monetary theorising
Pratten, S., 28 Aug 2020, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 44, 5, p. 1137-1157 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Dewey on Organisation
Pratten, S. B., 24 Dec 2019, In: European Journal Of Pragmatism and American Philosophy. 11, 2, p. 1 18 p., 8.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Positioning and the Nature of Social Objects
Pratten, S. B., 22 Aug 2018, Economic Objects and the Objects of Economics. Rona, P. & Zsolnai, L. (eds.). SpringerResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Cambridge Social Ontology: Clarification, Development and Deployment
Pratten, S. B., Faulkner, P. & Runde, J., 28 Aug 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 41, 5, p. 1265-1277 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Trust and the Social Positioning Process
Pratten, S. B., 28 Aug 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 41, 5, p. 1419-1436Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Coase on the Nature and Assessment of Social Institutions
Pratten, S. B., 1 Jan 2016, The Elgar Companion to Ronald H. Coase. Menard, C. (ed.). Cheltenham, p. 110-130 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Dewey on habit, character, order and reform
Pratten, S., 1 Jul 2015, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 39, 4, p. 1031-1052 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Social Ontology and Modern Economics
Pratten, S. B., 1 Jan 2015, London: Routledge.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
The scope of ontological theorising
Pratten, S., 1 Jan 2014, Social Ontology and Modern Economics. Taylor and Francis, p. 68-94 27 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Critical Realism and the Process Account of Emergence
Pratten, S., Sept 2013, (E-pub ahead of print) In: JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. 43, 3, p. 251-279 29 p., N/A.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Essentialism and the social
Pratten, S., May 2012, In: The Sociological Review. 60, 2, p. 241-266 26 p., N/A.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Critical Realism and Causality: Tracing the Aristotelian Legacy
Pratten, S., Jun 2009, In: JOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. 39, 2, p. 189-218 30 p., N/A.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference paper
No “third way” for economic organization? Networks and quasi-markets in broadcasting
Deakin, S., Lourenco, A. & Pratten, S., 2009, In: INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE. 18, 1, p. 51 - 75 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Commentary: the scope of public service broadcasting
Pratten, S. & Deakin, S., 2005, In: OCCASIONAL PAPERS- INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS. 133, p. 82 - 96 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Economics as progress: the LSE approach to econometric modelling and critical realism as programmes for research
Pratten, S., Mar 2005, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 29, 2, p. 179 - 205 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Transaction cost economics
Pratten, S., 2005, International Encyclopaedia of Economic Sociology. Beckert, J. & Zafirovski, M. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 679 - 683 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Mathematical formalism in economics: consequences and alternatives
Pratten, S., Jun 2004, In: ECONOMIC AFFAIRS. 24, 2, p. 37 - 42 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reclaiming history: a reply to weintraub
Pratten, S., Sept 2004, In: ECONOMIC AFFAIRS. 24, 3, p. 50 - 52 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Conflict between Formalism and Realisticness in Modern Economics: The Case of the New Institutional Economics
Pratten, S., 2004, The Elgar companion to economics and philosophy. Davis, J. B., Marciano, A. & Rune, J. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 339 - 363 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Introduction to special issue on critical realism
Pratten, S., Blackenberg, S., Lawson, C., Lawson, T., Lewis, P. & Runde, J., 2002, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 26, 6, p. 679 - 681 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Coase on broadcasting, advertising and policy
Pratten, S., 2001, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 25, 5, p. 617 - 638 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Competitiveness policy and economic organization: the case of the British film industry
Pratten, S. & Deakin, S., Jun 2000, In: Screen. 41, 2, p. 217 - 237 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Quasi Markets, Transaction Costs and Trust: The Uncertain Effects of Market Reforms in British Television Production
Deakin, S. & Pratten, S., 2000, In: Television & New Media. 1, 3, p. 321-354 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The evolving rationality of rational expectations: An assessment of Thomas Sargent's achievements.
Pratten, S., 2000, In: Isis. 91, 2, p. 424 - 425 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Reinventing the market? Competition and regulatory change in broadcasting
Deakin, S. & Pratten, S., Sept 1999, In: Journal of Law and Society. 26, 3, p. 323-350 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Marshall on tendencies, equilibrium, and the statical method
Pratten, S., 1998, In: HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. 30, 1, p. 121-163 43 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Needs and wants: the case of broadcasting policy
Pratten, S., Jul 1998, In: Media Culture & Society. 20, 3, p. 381-+ 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The nature of transaction cost economics
Pratten, S., Sept 1997, In: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ISSUES. 31, 3, p. 781-803 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Realism, underlabouring and institutions
Lawson, C., Peacock, M. & Pratten, S., Jan 1996, In: CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 20, 1, p. 137-151 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › peer-review
The ''closure'' assumption as a first step: Neo-Ricardian economics and Post-Keynesianism
Pratten, S., 1996, In: REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY. 54, 4, p. 423-443 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research
Social Ontology Research Unit
The Social Ontology Research Unit was formed to pursue interdisciplinary activities concerned with social ontology.
Project status: Ongoing
Events
Workshop: Advances in Social Positioning Theory
The purpose of this workshop is to take stock, reflect upon the basic principles of social positioning theory and consider how it can be used.
Please note: this event has passed.