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Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1986. All students of social science must confront a number of important philosophical issues. This introduction to the philosophy of the social sciences provides coherent answers to questions about empiricism, explanation and rationality. It evaluates contemporary writings...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Léon Walras (1834-1910) was one of the key thinkers behind the development of marginal utility theory and his introduction of general equilibrium theory is one of the cornerstones of modern economic thought. Now, his seminal work Études d'économie politique appliquée, first published in 1898, is...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: CRESC
The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate change or the social implications of biomedicine demand interdisciplinary efforts integrating both the social and...
To Be Published June 24th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
This book examines the relation of Hegel’s politics to his metaphysics in light of the controversy this issue has inspired over the last fifty years and to consider its larger implications for contemporary social and political thought. Goodfield reads Hegel’s devotion to the resolution of...
To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Ontological Explorations
This important book provides detailed critiques of the method of transcendental argumentation and the transcendental realist account of the concept of causal power that are among the core tenets of the bhaskarian version of critical realism. Kaidesoja also assesses the notions of human agency,...
To Be Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
This new book reopens the debate on theories of justice between utilitarian theorists and scholars from other camps. John Rawls’ 1971 publication of A Theory of Justice put forward a devastating challenge to the long-established dominance of utilitarianism within political and moral philosophy, and...
To Be Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy
Free-market economics has attempted to combine efficiency and freedom by emphasizing the need for neutral rules and meta-rules. These efforts have only been partly successful, for they have failed to address the deeper, normative arguments justifying – and limiting – coercion. This failure has thus...
To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
This book is a discourse on modelling Man in a social context. Its focus is on economic main-stream theory in its capacity to handle basic problems such as uncertainty, social dynamics and ethics. The point of departure is a systematic critique of the specific methodology of economics and its...
To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Second Edition is an indispensable reference source and guide to the major themes, debates, problems and topics in philosophy of science. It contains sixty-two specially commissioned entries by a leading team of international contributors. Organized...
To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
The capability approach has developed significantly since Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. It is now recognised as being highly beneficial in the analysis of poverty and inequality, but also in the redefinition of policies aimed at improving the well-being of...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
