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  • Economics and Language

    Modifié par Roger E. Backhouse, Tony Dudley-Evans, Willie Henderson ...
    Collections series Economics as Social Theory
    First published in 1993. The importance of language in economics has been neglected and dominated by techniques from other disciplines. This looks at the wider methological implications of language within economics in a practical and theoretical way. ... En savoir plus

    $126.41 CAD

  • The Origins of David Hume's Economics

    par Willie Henderson ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    The book covers Hume’s biographical development; his self appraisal as a 'man of letters’; his philosophical writings with emphasis on their direct and indirect economic content; his self-aware criticism of his approach to the Treatise and the development of his rhetorical understanding of the needs/interests of his readers/potential readers; his rhetorical turn and Ciceronian adjustments to his ... En savoir plus

    $105.99 CAD

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    Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    par Stephen H. Kellert ...
    What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological ... En savoir plus

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  • The Constitution of Society

    Outline of the Theory of Structuration

    par Anthony Giddens ...
    Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and ... En savoir plus

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  • Social Theory and Modern Sociology

    par Anthony Giddens ...
    In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century.Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few years, the book includes seven essays not previously published, plus two have not appeared in English before.In assessing the ... En savoir plus

    $46.50 CAD

  • In Praise of Reason

    Why Rationality Matters for Democracy

    par Michael P. Lynch ...
    A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution.Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you believe even if it contradicts the evidence? Why bother with rational explanation when name-calling, ... En savoir plus

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  • Social Theory of International Politics

    par Alexander Wendt ...
    Collections Livre 67 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He ... En savoir plus

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  • McCloskey's Rhetoric

    Discourse Ethics in Economics

    par Benjamin Balak ...
    Collections series Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
    The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson argued that ‘the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.’ This unique book examines the use of rhetoric in economics, focusing on the work of Deirdre McCloskey and other ... En savoir plus

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  • Why Things Matter to People

    Social Science, Values and Ethical Life

    par Andrew Sayer ...
    Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Key Problems of Sociological Theory

    par John Rex ...
    Collections series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume of VII twenty-two on a series on Social Theory and Methodology. Originally published in 1961, this book was written because of the author’s sense of the inadequacies of a sociological tradition dominated by empiricism and positivism. The tradition of empiricism leads to attempts to settle public issues by reference to crude ad hoc generalisations. So “right-wing” facts are refuted ... En savoir plus

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  • Realist Constructivism

    Rethinking International Relations Theory

    par J. Samuel Barkin ...
    Realism and constructivism, two key contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of international relations, are commonly taught as mutually exclusive ways of understanding the subject. Realist Constructivism explores the common ground between the two, and demonstrates that, rather than being in simple opposition, they have areas of both tension and overlap. There is indeed space to engage in ... En savoir plus

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  • Explaining the Normative

    par Stephen P. Turner ...
    Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as ‘correct,' ‘ought,' ‘must,' and the language of obligation, responsibility, and logical compulsion. Yet normativists, the philosophers committed to this idea, admit that the idea of a non-causal normative realm and a body of normative objects is ... En savoir plus

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