... University LEWISE. HILL The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority. By Thomas L. Haskell. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 276. No price stated...

...Steven Pressman Robert N. Proctor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 331 pp. $34.95. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 References Hausman , Daniel M. 1992 . The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

...Elizabeth Popp Berman History Repeats: Promoting and Defending Social Science at the National Science Foundation Elizabeth Popp Berman Social science makes up less than 5 percent of the budget of the National Science Foundation, a fraction that has fluctuated only moderately in the last sixty-plus...

...Carl G. Uhr Margarete Boos. Vienna: H. Böhlaus Nachfolgern, 1986. Pp. 252. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Book Reviews 149 Die Wissenschafts Theorie Cart Mengers (Carl Menger’s theory of science). By Margarete Boos...

.... George Mason University KARENI. VAUGHN The Invisible Hand: Economic Equilibrium in the History of Science. By Bruna Ingrao and Giorgio Israel. Translated by Ian McGilvray. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1990. Published in Italian as La mano invisible, 1987...

... Economy 25 ( March ): 236 -60. John Stuart Mill on Verification and the Business of Science Abraham Hirsch In his comprehensive study of Mill’s economics (1985), Samuel Hol- lander devotes a good deal of attention to Mill’s views about method- ology. Early on he tells us...

... analysts, social scientists, statisticians, and historians of economics and science. If I have any crit- icism of the book at all, it is that it leaves the reader wishing for more. By ending the narrative in 1938, it only partially manages to clarify my concern regarding time series analysis...

... productivity without doing much violence to time preference, so long as productivity is not considered as something objectively inherent in capital goods. Anthony M. Endres, University of Auckland Economics as a Moral Science: The Political Economy of Adam Smith. By Jef...

...S. M. Ghazanfar By Masudul Alam Choudhury. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xxii; 210 pp. $69.95. 2000 Book Reviews 699 Studies in Islamic Science and Polity. By Masudul Alam Choudhury. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. xxii...

.... Since the individuals are not atoms,the pretended clash between the individual and society is irrelevant to a proper interpretation of Adam Smith’s social science. Why am I unable to agree? First,as to method. Peil quotes approvingly from Paul Ricoeur: “By virtue of being written the text...

... . The Science of a Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hume, David. [1752] 1985 . Of the Balance of Trade. In Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary , edited by E. F. Miller. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics. Hutchison, T. W. 1988...

....” In academic life, some degree of chaos seems to be productive. Jürg Niehans, Emeritus, University of Bern No Ordinary Academics: Economics and Political Science at the University of Saskatchewan, 1910–1960. By Shirley Spafford. Toronto: University of Toronto Press...

... Foundation. [HOPE Vol. 7 (1975) No. 41 Innovations and their recognition in social science Joseph Ben-David I The difference between the social and the natural sciences has often been discussed in philosophical...

... in political science Karl W. Deutsch To say something about the past and prospects of work on politi- cal communication necessarily forces a participant in this work to look back at his own intellectual ancestry, at the colleagues with whom he has been working, and at the people...

... science Nicholas C. Mullins The study of social groups in science has its roots in the works of Kuhn’ and Price.2 Empirical work has been done on several groups, e.g., rural sociologist Skinnerian psychologist audition researchers ,5 phage workers in molecular...

...Robert C. Bannister Charles M. Bonjean, Louis Schneider, and Robert L. Lineberry. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas Press, 1976. Pp. 221. Cloth $10, paper $3.95. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 BOOK REVIEWS Social Science in America: The First Two Hundred...

... (1809–82),” Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences , vol. 5 (New York, 1931 ). Hofstadter , Richard , Social Darwinism in American Thought (Boston, 1944 ). Goldman , Eric , Rendezvous with Destiny (New York, 1952 ), p. 90 -94. Tax , Sol , and Larry S. Krucoff, “Social...

...Mircea Platon Recent historiography has paid a lot of attention to the rise of the cult of great men in eighteenth-century France. The focus of the debate has been on whether the cult of great men subverted or actually strengthened the monarchy. Yet, science and scientific thinking deeply affected...

..., criticism, politics, and natural religion. While Smith is more circumspect, he shares Hume‘s ambitions for the “science of man,” which Smith calls the “science of human nature” and which he believes was, even in the seventeenth century, in its “infancy.” This essay aims to explicate what Smith implies about...