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Hardcover, xiii + 450 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Minor storage marks on upper page edges externally. Boards show faint scratches, gentle handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Background [Social Contract; Invisible Hand; Classical Economics; German Historicism; Positivist Sociology; Holism and Collectivism] 3 Psychologism in Early Social Science [British Psychologism (John Stuart Mill; Utilitarian Economics); German Psychologism (Rise of Psychology; Wilhelm Dilthey; Georg Simmel); Psychologism on Trial] 4 Austrian Methodological Individualism [Carl Menger; Max Weber; Joseph Schumpeter; Ludwig von Mises; Friedrich von Hayek; Austrian Influence] 5 Society as Subjectively Meaningful Interaction [Symbolic Interactionism; Phenomenological Sociology; Existentialism; Ethnomethodology; Social Constructionism] 6 Positivism in Philosophy and Social Science [Positivist Philosophy (British Empiricism; Logical Positivism); Positivist Social Science (Systematic Empiricism; Positivist Social Theory: - Homans's Theory of Exchange - German Verhaltenstheorie)] 7 Popperian Methodological Individualism [Karl Popper; J.W.N. Watkins; Institutional Individualism (Joseph Agassi; Ian C. Jarvie; John O. Wisdom); Conclusion] 8 Economics: The Individualist Science [Macroeconomics and Microfoundations; General Equilibrium Theory; Game Theory; Conclusion] 9 The New Institutional Economics [Social Organisations (The Household; The Firm; The State; Interest Groups; Conclusion); Social Rules (Property Rights; Law; Constitutions); Evolutionary Economics; Conclusion] 10 Rational Choice Individualism [Rational Choice Sociology (James Coleman; Raymond Boudon); Analytical Marxism (Jon Elster; John Roemer); Structural Individualism] 11 Why Methodological Individualism? [Philosophical Background; Reductionism (Scientific Reduction; Psychologism; Microfoundations); Normative Individualism (Political Individualism; Humanism); Conclusion] 12 Methodological Individualism Restated [Strong and Weak Methodological Individualism; Versions of Strong Methodological Individualism; Explanatory Methodological Individualism]; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Author Names; Index -- Throughout the history of social thought, there has been, a constant battle over the true nature of society, and the best way to understand and explain it. This volume covers the development of methodological individualism, including the individualist theory of society from Greek Antiquity to modern social science.…