This paper shows how economic theory and history can be matched with the use of heterodox theories. This matching …

a fundamental and equally enduring problem: "Economic theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly … its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have often omitted to examine the foundations on which it was erected … a lack of knowledge of the assumptions on which a theory is based, but also because of the extreme importance for …

problem: it is not a single theory, but rather four major theories in a stormy sea of ill-conceived and untenable auxiliary … conjecture. Moreover, the solid core of Hardin's central thesis was simply a restatement of a previously published theory, the …

assumptions or rational choice theory on which much of social scientism is built. Critics of the natural science ideal in the … rational choice theory argue that it is a reductionism that does not account for a significant proportion of human actions and …. This paper however posits that rationalist assumptions or rational choice theory is not peculiar to social scientism but …