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A Scientific Approach to Ethics : Developing Greater Respect for Ethics in Business and Society

Storchevoy, Maxim - 2018

This book suggests that normative ethics should be developed as a social science, and that this will improve its … logic, empirical verification, accurate measurement) and demonstrates how normative ethics can make use of them. He provides … a historical review of the methodological evolution of normative ethics and outlines how it was moving in a nonlinear …

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Political Economy, Linguistics and Culture : Crossing Bridges

Backhaus, Jürgen G. (contributor) - 2008

Social sciences and economics have undergone enormous progress. While certain topics have been fully researched, others have remained largely under-researched or ignored. It is this discrepancy which prompted the research paradigm of 'Crossing Bridges'. For this volume, ten authors have joined...

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Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy

Kennedy, Gavin - 2005

In this accessible book, Gavin Kennedy takes a fresh look at Adam Smith's moral philosophy and its links to his political economy and his lectures on Jurisprudence. The book provides a new analysis of Wealth of Nations , and argues that Adam Smith's intellectual legacy was completely transformed...

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Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling : With Applications for the Social Sciences

Silverman, Eric - 2018

This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life and population biology, then...

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Introduction to Social Systems Engineering

Wang, Huijiong; Li, Shantong - 2018

This book integrates the basic theories (GST and Parson’s AGIL framework), applying them to the components of social systems, state-run and business firms. China’s development experience offers a valuable case study that can provide readers deeper insights into this comparatively young...

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Small Business, Big Society

Hodder, Rupert - 2018

This book considers how small businesses stir up changes in social relationships and what these changes mean for wider society. From this emerges a challenging and provocative discussion on the problems facing both the developing and developed worlds. Development, it argues, is written into...

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The Palgrave Handbook of Quantum Models in Social Science : Applications and Grand Challenges

Haven, Emmanuel (ed.); Khrennikov, Andrei (ed.) - 2017

It is not intuitive to accept that there exists a link between quantum physical systems and cognitive systems. However, recent research has shown that cognitive systems and collective (social) systems, including biology, exhibit uncertainty which can be successfully modelled with quantum...

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Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior : New Frontiers of Social Science Research

Secchi, Davide (ed.); Neumann, Martin (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016

The aim of this book is to demonstrate how Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) can be used to enhance the study of social agency, organizational behavior and organizational management. It derives from a workshop, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of...

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Co-Designing Economies in Transition : Radical Approaches in Dialogue with Contemplative Social Sciences

Giorgino, Vincenzo Mario Bruno (ed.); Walsh, Zack (ed.) - 2018

This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition. There is growing support for the view that the end of capitalism is around the corner, but on which conceptual and ethical basis can we interpret these times? With...

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Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy : Introduction and Essays on New and Changing Paradigms in Socio-Economic Thinking

Nowak, Andrzej (ed.); Ormerod, Paul (ed.); … - 2017

Non-Equilibrium Social Science & Policy -- Economics -- Social Psychology and Narrative Economy -- Sociology and Non-Equilibrium Social Science -- Geography far from Equilibrium -- Cities in Disequilibrium -- The Evolutionary Theory of Globalization -- Systems, Networks, and Policy -- Towards a...

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