This book focuses on a territory that persists to be largely intractable using the postulates of economics: that of primitive societies. In retracing the origins of economics imperialism back to the birth of the discipline, this volume argues that it offers a reductionist interpretation that is poor in interpretative power. By engaging with the neglected traditions of sociological and anthropological studies, the analysis offers suggestions for a more democratic cooperation between the social sciences.
Economics as Social Science is of great interest to those who study history of economic thought, political economy and the history of economic anthropology, as well as history of social sciences and economic methodology.
This book focuses on a territory that persists to be largely intractable using the postulates of economics: that of primitive societies. In retracing the origins of economics imperialism back to the birth of the discipline, this volume argues that it offers a reductionist interpretation that is poor in interpretative power. By engaging with the neglected traditions of sociological and anthropological studies, the analysis offers suggestions for a more democratic cooperation between the social sciences.
Economics as Social Science is of great interest to those who study history of economic thought, political economy and the history of economic anthropology, as well as history of social sciences and economic methodology.
Economics as Social Science: Economics imperialism and the challenge of interdisciplinarity
228Economics as Social Science: Economics imperialism and the challenge of interdisciplinarity
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ISBN-13: | 9781138909298 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 10/25/2016 |
Series: | Routledge Advances in Social Economics |
Pages: | 228 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) |