First published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and the reissue will be very welcome to all students of methodology, in particular those students of economic methodology seeking a refreshing alternative to yet more mathematical game playing.
In an age dominated and perhaps to an extent perplexed by an ultimately non-committal postmodernism the book provides a root and branch...
First published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and o...