Social Knowledge: An Essay on the Nature and Limits of Social Science

by Paul Mattick Jr.

Book Overview

How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sciences? In Social Knowledge, Paul Mattick argues that the well-known difficulties of the social sciences - in particular the predictive and explanatory failures of economics - are due not to an inherent resistance of social life to scientific explanation, but to the failure of social scientists to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004414800
• ISBN13: 9789004414808
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"