Economics as Social Science

Name: Economics as Social Science
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Economics as Social ScienceEconomics imperialism and the challenge of interdisciplinarity\nAuthor(s): Roberto Marchionatti, Mario Cedrini\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138909298, 978-1138909298\nSynopsis\nThere is a growing consensus in social sciences that there is a need for interdisciplinary research on the complexity of human behavior. At an age of crisis for both the economy and economic theory, economics is called upon to fruitfully cooperate with contiguous social disciplines. The term economics imperialism refers to the expansion of economics to territories that lie outside the traditional domain of the discipline. Its critics argue that in starting with the assumption of maximizing behaviour, economics excludes the nuances of rival disciplines and has problems in interpreting real-world phenomena.\n\nThis book focuses on a territory that persists to be largely intractable using the postulates of econo.