Economics today has been widely criticised as being more concerned with mathematical technique than the understanding and explanation of real world phenomena. However, one hundred years ago, in Europe and America, economics was fused with the study of history and its practitioners emphasised the importance of the understanding of specific institutions. How Economics Forgot Hi...(展开全部)

In How Economics Forgot History, Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to try and explain all economic phenomena by using the same catch-all theories and dealing in universal truths. He argues that you need different theories to analyse different economic phenomena and systems and that historical context must be taken into account. Hodgson argues that the ...(展开全部)

莫里斯·曼德尔鲍姆{Maurice H.　Mandelbaum，1908-1987），先后毕业于达特茅斯学院、耶鲁大学，获得硕士和博士学位。曾先后执教于达特茅斯学院、约翰·霍普金斯大学，任比较文学教授、哲学教授。1968-1974年，任美国哲学学会主席。1973年.入选美国艺术与科学学院院士。 《历史知识问题》是曼德尔鲍姆的威名作，也是美国哲学家在历史哲学领域的第一部重要作品。奠他著作有《道德经验的现象学》（1955）、《哲学、科学与感性知觉》（1969）、《历史、人和理性》《1971）、<哲学、历史和科学》（1984），《社会理论中的目标和必然性》（1987）等书。

莫里斯·曼德尔鲍姆{Maurice H.　Mandelbaum，1908-1987），先后毕业于达特茅斯学院、耶鲁大学，获得硕士和博士学位。曾先后执教于达特茅斯学院、约翰·霍普金斯大学，任比较文学教授、哲学教授。1968-1974年，任美国哲学学会主席。1973年.入选美国艺术与科学学院院士。 《历史知识问题》是曼德尔鲍姆的威名作，也是美国哲学家在历史哲学领域的第一部重要作品。奠他著作有《道德经验的现象学》（1955）、《哲学、科学与感性知觉》（1969）、《历史、人和理性》《1971）、<哲学、历史和科学》（1984），《社会理论中的目标和必然性》（1987）等书。

The beauty of science may be pure and eternal, but the practice of science costs money. And scientists, being human, respond to incentives and costs, in money and glory. Choosing a research topic, deciding what papers to write and where to publish them, sticking with a familiar area or going into something new--the payoff may be tenure or a job at a highly ranked university or ...(展开全部)

A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill, Backhouse shows how to keep your Keynsians from your post-Keynsians and New Keynsians. This is a core book.

All social scientists learn the celebrated theories and frameworks of their predecessors, using them to inform their own research and observations. But before there can be theory, there must be theorizing. Theorizing in Social Science introduces the reader to the next generation of theory construction and suggests useful ways for creating social theory. What makes certain types...(展开全部)

The Logic of Social Science offers new principles for designing and conducting social science research. James Mahoney uses set-theoretic analysis to develop a fresh scientific constructivist approach that avoids essentialist biases in the production of knowledge. This approach recognizes that social categories depend on collective understandings for their existence, but it insi...(展开全部)

The book considers the past accomplishments and future agendas of comparative-historical research in the social sciences. It defines the distinctiveness of this type of research and explores its strengths in explaining important outcomes (e.g. revolutions, social provision, democracy) in the world. It includes sections on substantive research accomplishments, methodology, and t...(展开全部)