How economics forgot history : the problem of historical specificity in social science

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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The limitations of general theory; The problem of historical specificity; The nineteenth century: the German historical school and its impact; Karl Marx and the specificity of the capitalist system; The older historical school in Germany; The historical school in the British Isles; The methodological failure of the older historical school; Out of Austria: Carl Menger and the Methodenstreit; Alfred Marshall and the British Methodendiskurs; The responses of the younger historical school in Germany

The twentieth century: from American institutionalism to the end of historyThorstein Veblen and the foundations of Institutionalism; Early American institutionalism and the problem of historical specificity; The theoretical manifesto of John Commons; Talcott Parsons and the ascent of ahistorical sociology; Death and counter-revolution at the London School of Economics; John Maynard Keynes and his declaration of a General Theory; The triumph of barren universality; Institution blindness and the end of history; The millennium: the second coming of history?

Are there universals in social and economic theory?Property, culture, habits and institutions; Exchange and production: property and firms; A note on social formations and levels of abstraction; An evolutionary perspective on the historical problem; Invention is helpless without tradition; Bibliography; Index

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