Economic Methodology and the Freedom to Choose - Hardcover

O'Sullivan, P.J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0043303757 ISBN 13: 9780043303757

Publisher: Routledge, 1987

Synopsis

(The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and very welcome to all students of methodology, in particular those students of economic methodology seeking a refreshing alternative to yet more mathematical game playing. In an age dominated and perhaps to an extent perplexed by an ultimately non-committal postmodernism the book provides a root and branch critique of the epistemological relativism which must lie at the root of the whole post-modernist approach; and in reasserting the fundamental importance not only for the methods of science but also for European civilization of the pursuit of truth it takes a stance which is very much against the tide of the times) Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences.

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Review

'O'Sullivan's thought-provoking work is a significant addition to the rapidly expanding literature on economic methodology.' - R.S. Hewett, Drake University, CHOICE

About the Author

Patrick O'Sullivan is Professor of Business Ethics and Head of Department of People Organisations and Society at the Grenoble Ecole de Management in France. He is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research at the University of Cambridge and is an occasional visiting professor at Göthe Business School, Frankfurt University and at Warsaw University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0043303757
• ISBN 13: 9780043303757
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256