different but related economic sciences, including statistics and economic history, positive economics, normative economics, and … the 'art of political economy'. Typically, positive economics has analysed economic phenomena using the second approach … last 40 years, and some of these do assign a fundamental role to ends within economics. This book argues that the field of …

Alexis de Tocqueville’s work touched upon an exceptionally broad range of social scientific disciplines, from economics …—political science, economics, sociology, philosophy, and social thought—to examine Tocqueville’s thoughts on political and social …