Free-Thought in the Social Sciences (Routledge Revivals)

ISBN-13: 9780415578820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str.

J. A. Hobson;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Elucidating his views on a variety of topics across the social sciences, J.A. Hobson makes particular reference to the struggle between the disinterested urge of the social scientist and the interests and other motive forces which tend to influence and mould his processes of inquiry.

Spis treści

Part I: The Art of Free-Thinking  1. The Disinterested Pursuit of Knowledge  2. The Bias of Metaphor  3. Disinterested Science and the Interests  4. Taboos in the Social Sciences  5. Personal and Economic Biases  Part II: The Making of an Economic Science  6. The Rise of Political Economy  7. Neo-classical Economics in Britain  8. Marginalism in Neo-classical Economics  9. The Economics of Human Welfare  10. Proletarian Economics  Part III: Free-Thought in Politics and Ethics  11. Power-Politics  12. Race Eugenics as a Policy  13. The Struggle for a Free Ethics  14. The Survival Power of Free-Thought

O autorze

J. A. Hobson