Economics: Rational Action or Social Science? Marshall vs. Edgeworth in re ‘The Social Question’

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Rational Action ◽  
Social Question ◽  
The Social

Economic Theory and the Social Question: Some Dialectics Regarding the Work-Dependency Relationship

2019 ◽  
Vol 139 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 407-420
Author(s):  
Richard E. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Rational Action ◽  
Contemporary Theory ◽  
Social Question ◽  
Dependency Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Moral Qualities ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The 19Th Century

This article uses the 19th century concern with “the social question” to explore how theories shape our insights into our subjects of interest. Contemporary theory mostly construes economics as a science of rational action, which reduces the social question to a matter of material inequality. In contrast, this article treats economics as a form of social theory, with the social question revolving around the material and the moral qualities of societies. While redistribution may be a component of efforts to address the social question, primary focus rests on the institutional arrangements through which human capacities are formed and moral orientations generated.

Social science, sociology, and the social question.

2012 ◽  
pp. 28-52
Author(s):  
Francis Greenwood Peabody
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Question ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Wisselgren: Social Science in Sweden

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Turner
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ashgate Publishing ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Academic Social Science

Book Review of: Per Wisselgren, The Social Scientific Gaze: The Social Question and the Rise of Academic Social Science in SwedenSurrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2015ISBN: 9781472447593Price: $121,20

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