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 …

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 …

a test and logical deduction of our illustrative theory: Cancer rates on Prince Edward Island have dramatically … conclude our theory is true and, in order to complete our demonstration of Popper's methods, open this theory to criticism and …

Green and Shapiro have argued that rational choice theory has produced virtually no new propositions about politics … that have been carefully tested and not found wanting; and that an empirically successful rational choice theory would be … claim that rational choice theory has made no empirical contributions. Second, there is empirically confirmed content …

theory and also analysis of its essential characteristics and functional specific features. In order to clarify the essence … main attributes. It shows that refusal of the modern economic theory to use the dialectical method limits its …