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How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science (Economics as Social Theory) Geoffrey M Hodgson
Publisher: Routledge

I have merely summarized his views in one sentence. Jan 25, 2013 - The modern social sciences — sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history and, we may add, philosophy — rest on the assumption that the grand and the humdrum events of human life take place against a backdrop of an inert nature. Fredric Jameson examines the most influential theories of artistic and literary realism, approaching the subject himself in terms of the social and historical preconditions for realism's emergence. Dec 31, 2013 - This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations. Apr 15, 2014 - How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science (Economics as Social Theory) description. Mar 30, 2014 - In the case of modern social theory, however, the formation of the prevailing concepts of history and society is widely recognized to be connected to the rise of liberalism as political, economic, and social ideology. Even better Kim, we could see some of the Real Scientists exposed to a little social theory - history and the like before they go extrapolating from the ant nest to the city. Apr 12, 2014 - “The Empirical Evidence Against Neoclassical Utility Theory: A Review of the Literature” [with Mehmet Karacuka] International Journal for Pluralism and Economics Education Vol. My statements regarding methodenstreit are based on my reading of Geoffry M. The story of how economics came to expunge historical time and its implications from its core theoretical concerns is fascinating in itself. For anyone interested, Hodgson's How economics forgot history: The problem of historical specificity in social science provides a valuable intellectual history. Hodgson: How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science. Nov 21, 2013 - They nonetheless continued to preoccupy many flavours of non-orthodox economics. But they have often And as the interaction with foreign capital affected domestic social forces, this in turn contributed to generating that combination of inside and outside pressures whereby states came to accept a certain responsibility for reproducing capitalism internationally. Jun 3, 2013 - The mutual constitution of states, classes and markets has been the main focus, of course, of political economists working within a historical materialist framework. Arguably complexity economics simply allows a return to old questions using new tools. With this specificity, he might then have asked: Why is economics a social discipline, and not a natural science? Aug 6, 2013 - What I mean by this is that everything that economists consider has to be forced into their intellectual framework; since everything is viewed through the imperfect lens of Economic Theory, the output is similarly imperfect To paraphrase, “Only the people who understand both the data and its limitations will not get lost in the illusion of precision.” 6.