Karl Popper and Situational Analysis: Theory and Method for Contemporary Economics and Sociology

‘Situational Analysis’ represents Karl Popper’s methodological proposal for the social sciences. Although it has been widely studied and interpreted, this book argues that Situational Analysis remains underestimated and undeveloped and, if properly reformulated, could yet become a broad methodological framework that encompasses both the ‘historical’ social sciences and a large section of the ‘theoretical’ social sciences.

The first part of this book develops this idea by returning to Popper’...