opposed to some ways in which it has been deployed. Their central problem is a confusion of levels of analysis. Materialism …

functions of the theory of the material constitution, namely, to guide constitutional changes, they fall into a logical …

’s theory of history and on Jaegwon Kim's formulations of strong and weak supervenience to show how the concept of strong … supervenience is most useful for interpreting Marx’s primacy thesis. While no position is advanced here about whether the theory of … historical materialism is true or not, the author provides a tool that can be used for developing a clearer conception of Marx …

This paper provides a brief review of the connecting literature in management science, economics and finance, and …

Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …

matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

This paper provides a review of some connecting literature in Decision Sciences, Economics, Finance, Business …