Tag: social sciences
Orthodoxy and Monoeconomics
Albert Einstein on the power of ideas and imagination in science
The Audacity of Science
Don’t mess with political scientists! Not to mention political economists!! ;-)
“Falsified statistics”, membership celebration, thanks and an important reminder
What is academic freedom?
Who is an economist? Here is Keynes’ answer
International Political Economy scholars miss THE question of the 21st century: the rise of a global labor class living in poverty
Ulrich Beck has died. His powerful concept of ‘Risk Society’ is relevant as never before
“People are living books. The real library of life is community.” Thank you all!
Theodor Adorno on philosophy, academia, and market
Science is at your feet: Political Science and Sociology’s Most Cited Papers from Each Decade since the 1950s
Economists admit: “Humans are fundamentally a social species with interaction patterns that shape their behaviors”. Eureka!!
Zygmunt Bauman: “Sociologizing makes sense only in as far as it helps humanity.”
On economists, sociologists, and evil – an anecdote and an insight from Paul Krugman
How to theorize a research? Richard Swedberg’s “The Art of Social Theory” is a unique book about the craft of theorizing
Mark Granovetter didn’t win (yet) the Nobel Prize. Here is his rejection letter, from 1969
Thomas Piketty: “There is no such thing as economic science. There are social sciences, economic processes involved social control.”
Georg Simmel — The Bridge and the Door
Who are the Liberals?
Rationalism and Pseudo-rationalism according to Karl Popper
Sociologists are here to stay! We won’t be defeated by computers! :-)
Berger and Luckmann: “The social world was made by men — and, therefore, can be remade by them”
Economic Sociology & Political Economy 