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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

Jul 20, 2013 - This historical specificity can be a problem for economists, even heterodox ones, as they are generally wont to find principles which extend across different times and societies. May 11, 2014 - His theoretical and empirical research concerns a wide range of substantive issues, ranging across different levels of analysis from micro to macro, covering different spatial scales, dealing with various historical and prospective as well as This deficit has created the basis for non-economists to explore the overdetermination of régulation by extra-economic factors as well as to examine how the regulation of capitalism impacts upon other parts of the social formation. And this ONE historical condition comprises a world's history. 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. How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science. Nov 16, 2013 - Standing in the crossing of economic history, the history of economic knowledge and thought, memory studies, and the history of economics and science, Boldizzoni's paper demonstrates the merits of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary . For anyone interested, Hodgson's How economics forgot history: The problem of historical specificity in social science provides a valuable intellectual history. It follows Important historical rivals to neoclassical economics are the German Historical School and the Old Institutionalist tradition. Hodgson: How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science. The story of how economics came to expunge historical time and its implications from its core theoretical concerns is fascinating in itself. I have merely summarized his views in one sentence. Nov 21, 2013 - They nonetheless continued to preoccupy many flavours of non-orthodox economics. 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. My statements regarding methodenstreit are based on my reading of Geoffry M. Arguably complexity economics simply allows a return to old questions using new tools. Apr 8, 2014 - Economics is a discipline in which there are many different competing economic theories, and most of these theories are not just inconsistent on minor issues, but fundamentally contradictory in terms of their major and most fundamental theories. In a nutshell, Marx's theory goes as follows: under capitalism, the value of commodities is determined by the “socially necessary” amount of labour required to produce them ('variable capital'), plus the current necessary cost of ..