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The History of the Social Sciences since 1945

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  • Backhouse,Roger E.
  • Fontaine,Philippe

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This compact volume covers the main developments in the social sciences since the Second World War. Chapters on economics, human geography, political science, psychology, social anthropology, and sociology will interest anyone wanting short, accessible histories of those disciplines, all written by experts in the relevant field; they will also make it easy for readers to make comparisons between disciplines. A final chapter proposes a blueprint for a history of the social sciences as a whole. Whereas most of the existing literature considers the social sciences in isolation from one other, this volume shows that they have much in common; for example, they have responded to common problems using overlapping methods, and cross-disciplinary activities have been widespread.

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  • Backhouse,Roger E. & Fontaine,Philippe, 2010. "The History of the Social Sciences since 1945," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521889063.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:cbooks:9780521889063
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    1. Roger E. Backhouse, 2013. "Responding to economic crisis: macroeconomic revolutions in the 1930s and 1970s," Chapters, in: Mats Benner (ed.), Before and Beyond the Global Economic Crisis, chapter 2, pages 38-54, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Rafael Galvão de Almeida, 2020. "Comment on 'The Empirical Success of Keynesianism' by Donald Gillies," Economic Thought, World Economics Association, vol. 9(1), pages 44-47, July.
    3. Beatrice Cherrier & Jean-Baptiste Fleury, 2017. "Economists’ interest in collective decision after World War II: a history," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 172(1), pages 23-44, July.
    4. Dieter Bögenhold, 2021. "Economics in the Social Science Spectrum: Evolution and Overlap with Different Academic Areas," Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 49(4), pages 335-347, December.
    5. Dieter Bögenhold, 2017. "Social-scienciation of Economics and its Consequences: On a Relative Convergence between Economics and Sociology," STOREPapers 3_2017, Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica - StorEP.
    6. Min Chen & Hui Lin & Mingyuan Hu & Li He & Chunxiao Zhang, 2013. "Real-Geographic-Scenario-Based Virtual Social Environments: Integrating Geography with Social Research," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 40(6), pages 1103-1121, December.
    7. Till Düppe & E. Roy Weintraub, 2013. "Siting the New Economic Science: The Cowles Commission’s Activity Analysis Conference of June 1949," Working Papers 0040, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    8. Pattit, Jason M. & Pattit, Katherina G. & Spender, J C, 2021. "Edith T. Penrose: Economist of "The Ordinary Business of Life"," MPRA Paper 106375, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. Rahman, Jasmeen & Dimand, Robert W., 2021. "The Emergence Of Geographical Economics: At The Contested Boundaries Of Economics, Geography, And Regional Science," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cambridge University Press, vol. 43(2), pages 241-261, June.
    10. Béatrice CHERRIER & Jean-Baptiste FLEURY, 2014. "Whose values? The Rise, Fragmentation and Marginalization of Collective Choice in Postwar Economics, 1940-1981," Economics Working Paper from Condorcet Center for political Economy at CREM-CNRS 2014-05-ccr, Condorcet Center for political Economy.
    11. Daoud, Adel & Kohl, Sebastian, 2016. "How much do sociologists write about economic topics? Using big data to test some conventional views in economic sociology, 1890 to 2014," MPIfG Discussion Paper 16/7, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
    12. Fontaine, Philippe & Pooley, Jefferson, 2020. "Introduction: Whose Social Problems?," SocArXiv w59f3, Center for Open Science.

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