This paper argues that mainstream economics does not follow the positivist research tradition it (often implicitly) claims to follow and expresses some serious doubt that econometrics in particular can make economics a hard science. Mathematical rigour and sophisticated statistical techniques...

Zwei Theoretiker deduzieren widersprüchliche theoretische Aussagen und erzeugen einen Konflikt. Beide werden nun in einer Höhle eingesperrt (Empirieaussperrung). Kann durch die theoretische Diskussion der beiden die Wissenschaft fortschreiten? Die Theoretiker können verfolgen, woher der...

Der Artikel geht der Frage nach, ob die Forderung einer 'Unternehmensverantwortung für soziale und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit' (CSR) in den Kurrikula der Hochschule verankert werden kann. Zunächst wird die Frage aus wissenschaftstheoretischer Sicht diskutiert. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es kein...

The recent drastic developmentof agriculture, together with the growingsocietal interest in agricultural practices andtheir consequences, pose a challenge toagricultural science. There is a need forrethinking the general methodology ofagricultural research. This paper takes somesteps towards...

The number of citations a paper receives is the most commonly used measure of scientific impact. In this paper, we study not only the number but also the type of citations that 659 marketing articles generated. We discern five citation types: application, affirmation, negation, review and...

This work examines in depth the methodological relationships that probability and statistics have maintained with the social sciences. It covers both the history of thought and current methods. First, it examines in detail the history of the different paradigms and axioms for probability, from...

Behaviourism is the view that preferences, beliefs, and other mental states in social-scienti�c theories are auxiliary constructs re-describing people's behav- ioural dispositions. Mentalism is the view that they capture real phenomena, no less existent than the unobservable entities and...