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Preface -- Ch 1 Overview Qualitative Economics (QE) - The Science of Economics -- Part I Philosophy of Science and the Lifeworld Traditions -- Ch 2 The Case for Rethinking the Foundation of Business Economics -- Ch 3 Understanding the Organization of Science -- Ch 4 History of Lifeworld Traditions -- Ch 5 Mead and Blumer - Social Theory and Symbolic Interactionism -- Part II Science of Economics through Linguistics -- Ch 6 The Study of Qualitative Economics -- Ch 7 The Science of Qualitative Economics -- Ch 8 Methodological and Theoretical Constructs -- Ch 9 Linguistics as a Science -- Ch 10 Everyday Economic Life -- Ch 11 Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix A: The European Union Circular Economy: The Transition Towards a Better Future -- Appendix B: Circular Economy and Strategic Approach to Raw Materials: An Important Challenge for Europe and the Rest of the World -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Edited by George Gunton. ; Title from cover. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Pluralism is the concept that there is no single methodology that is always the correct one for discovering scientific truths, so multiple approaches and methodologies are required for a complete scientific understanding of a subject. Heterodoxy refers to those approaches to a subject that are outside of the generally accepted mainstream. While pluralism and heterodoxy are not necessarily inconsistent, heterodox economists tend to follow one particular methodology or school of thought rather than taking an eclectic approach to economic understanding, and heterodox economists often criticize approaches other than their own. Thus, in most cases, heterodox economists, by defending their own schools of thought and critiquing other approaches, are not pluralistic. The paper advocates a pluralistic approach to the social sciences over the more narrow approaches typically promoted by heterodox schools of thought.

This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political science, political theory, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology. The relevance of historical approaches within these disciplines has shifted over the centuries. Many of them, like law and economics, originally depended on self-consciously historical procedures. These included the marshalling of evidence from past experience, philological techniques and source criticism. Between the late nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth century, the influence of new methods of research, many indebted to models favoured by the natural sciences, such as statistical, analytical or empirical approaches, secured an expanding intellectual authority while the hegemony of historical methods declined in relative terms. In the aftermath of this change, the essays collected in History in the Humanities and Social Sciences reflect from a variety of angles on the relevance of historical concerns to representative disciplines as they are configured today.