Economics as a science [by] Kenneth E. Boulding.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, McGraw-Hill [1970]Description: vi, 157 p. 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330/.08
LOC classification:
  • HB 71 .B658 1970
Contents:
One: Economics as a social science -- Two: Economics as an ecological science -- Three: Economics as a behavioral science -- Four: Economics as a political science -- Five: Economics as a mathematical science -- Six: Economics as a moral science -- Seven: Economics and the future of man,
Summary: This world-renowned author provides economics students with a perspective of the scope and setting of economics and the place which it occupies in the intellectual community. Each chapter covers a particular aspect of economics in relation to some larger whole. Suitable as a supplement to economics courses, this book should also be of value to social scientists who are interested in the relation of their own science to economics, especially sociologists and political scientists. It will also appeal to philosophers of science who are interested in the place of economics in the general hierarchy of the sciences.
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One: Economics as a social science -- Two: Economics as an ecological science -- Three: Economics as a behavioral science -- Four: Economics as a political science -- Five: Economics as a mathematical science -- Six: Economics as a moral science -- Seven: Economics and the future of man,

This world-renowned author provides economics students with a perspective of the scope and setting of economics and the place which it occupies in the intellectual community. Each chapter covers a particular aspect of economics in relation to some larger whole. Suitable as a supplement to economics courses, this book should also be of value to social scientists who are interested in the relation of their own science to economics, especially sociologists and political scientists. It will also appeal to philosophers of science who are interested in the place of economics in the general hierarchy of the sciences.

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