Freethought in the Social Sciences Routl

Informationen zum Autor J. A. Hobson Zusammenfassung Elucidates the author's views on a variety of topics across the social sciences. This work focuses upon free-thinking, economics and political ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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Elucidates the author's views on a variety of topics across the social sciences. This work focuses upon free-thinking, economics and political ethics.

Product details

• Authors: J. A. Hobson, Hobson J. A.
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2009
• EAN: 9780415578561
• ISBN: 978-0-415-57856-1
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Society & culture: general, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Political science and theory, Society and culture: general, Economic theory and philosophy