The Austrian School of economics isn’t a 20th century or even 19th century creation. Instead, Austrian economics is rooted in ...

Dans ce texte, l'auteur explore le problème des microfondements du comportement individuel. Dans la première partie du texte, l'auteur essaie de clarifier la signification de l'individualisme ...

Reproduction, as described by Bourdieu and Passeron, is the authoritative theory in the sociology of education. But doesn't methodological individualism deserve more attention as the web opens new ...

“The IT department gives $%^&*! service.” Have you heard that? In pretty much every company I’ve worked for or visited, that phrase was common. Or how about this: “Sales spends too much time partying ...

Economics used to be a social science, but this is no longer so. markwainwright/ Flickr Today, the field has largely become a study of individual agents acting outside of society, as if societal ...

The Canadian Journal of Philosophy was founded in 1971 by four Alberta philosophers, John King-Farlow, Kai Nielsen, T.M. Penelhum, and W.W. Rozeboom. Since its founding, CJP has grown into a widely ...

Economics could advance enormously if it relaxed one of its most precious assumptions: methodological individualism, or the idea that any explanation needs to be related to individuals making sensible ...

1 Chapter 1 Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge, section 3: Four Methodological Comments There are four methodological choices represented by the thesis that I have outlined up to this ...

CAMBRIDGE — Economics could advance enormously if it relaxed one of its most precious assumptions: Methodological individualism, or the idea that any explanation needs to be related to individuals ...