Anti-realism or pro-something else?

Tony Lawson is a reader in economics at the University of Cambridge (UK). He is organizer of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group and the Cambridge Realist Workshop. He has written extensively on issues in economic methodology, epistemology and explanation in social science, philosophical realism, and social ontology, particularly in his books Economics and reality (1997) and Reorienting economics (2003), and Ontology and economics: Tony Lawson and his critics (2008, edited by Edward Fullbrook).