The Elgar companion to economics and philosophy The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy aims to demonstrate exactly how these two important areas have always been linked and to illustrate the key areas of overlap. The contributors are well known and distinguished authors from a variety of disciplines who have been invited both to survey and to provide a personal assessment of current and prospective future states of their respective areas of philosophical interest pt. 1. Political economy as political philosophy pt. 2. The methodology and epistemology of economics pt. 3. Social ontology and the ontology of economics