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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

The story of how economics came to expunge historical time and its implications from its core theoretical concerns is fascinating in itself. With this specificity, he might then have asked: Why is economics a social discipline, and not a natural science? Gustav Schmoller and the Problems of Today. Arguably complexity economics simply allows a return to old questions using new tools. May 26, 2008 - The excitement they had created in the upper realms of popular culture touched off a vogue for offering advice on “the business applications of complexity theory” among many high-end consulting firms. I have merely summarized his views in one sentence. Apr 15, 2014 - How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science (Economics as Social Theory) description. 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. Hodgson: How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science. 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. Nov 21, 2013 - They nonetheless continued to preoccupy many flavours of non-orthodox economics. For anyone interested, Hodgson's How economics forgot history: The problem of historical specificity in social science provides a valuable intellectual history. Feb 25, 2014 - Unlike Auguste Comte's theory of sociological method, for example, the views of the German Historical School (GHS) of economics do not appear to have arisen out of general philosophical ideas; rather, they seem to have been suggested by an Based on these principles, the task of the economist was to study history in search of clues to the relationship between the social and economic organization of society.