Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences - 9781138532274

Name: Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences - 9781138532274
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The purpose of this book is to examine how ideology operates - in the sense of influencing the conduct of inquiry - in the policy sciences, defined as economics, political science, and sociology > The purpose of this book is to examine how ideology operates - in the sense of influencing the conduct of inquiry - in the policy sciences, defined as economics, political science, and sociology. In it, Diesing critically explores all the major schools of policy-related social thought from 1930 to 1975. Richard Hartwig, in his new introduction, notes, 'In 1982, Diesing published a remarkable book entitled Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences. [It] was the best book I had read in a decade, and it related directly to all the policy sciences\u2026. I consider this to be the most brilliant of Diesing's books. Like all of Diesing's works, it remains highly relevant today.' > 1: Social Studies of Science; I: ; 2: Neoclassical Economics; 3: Extended Applications of the Neoclassical Pee