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    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This is the first book to describe the entire developmental history of the human aspects of economics. The issue of “self-interest” is discussed throughout, from pre-Adam Smith to contemporary neuroeconomics, representing a unique contribution to economics. Though the notion of self-interest has been interpreted in several ways by various schools of economics and economists since Smith first ... Read more

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  • History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics

    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Economics
    This book seeks to advance social economic analysis, economic methodology, and the history of economic thought in the context of twenty-first-century scholarship and socio-economic concerns. Bringing together carefully selected chapters by leading scholars it examines the central contributions that John Davis has made to various areas of scholarship.In recent decades, criticisms of mainstream ... Read more

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  • Sociological Theory – A Contemporary View: How to Read, Criticize and Do Theory

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  • Words, Objects and Events in Economics

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    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
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    Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of history. Yet today the idea of progress has more or less collapsed; with its demise, some say, sociological thought has moved to the margins of contemporary ... Read more

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    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
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    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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