Interfaces in Economic and Social Analysis

Recent attempts at exploring the interface between economics and the other social sciences have often ended in little more than attempts to incorporate the other disciplines under a economistic regime. "Interfaces in Economic and Social Analysis" brings them into a dialogue. The introductory paper sets the agenda by outlining ways in which so-called exogenous factors can influence economic processes. A team of internationally known economists, representing a wide range of different schools, then examine these factors from the economists' perspective. In the next section of the book the economists' chapters are reviewed by social scientists from the exogenous domain - sociologists, political scientists, social psychologists, demographers and legal scientists among them. In the final part of the book, the economists' contributions are integrated with those of the other social science disciplines. This book should be of interest to academics and postgraduates in economics, politics, sociology and law.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Exogenous Factors in Economic Theory 1. Project IDEA: An Introduction Ulf Himmelstrand 2. Exogenous Factors and Classical Economics S. Hollander, University of Toronto 3. Partially Independent Variables and Internal Logic in Classical Marxist Economic Analysis E. Mandel, Brussels 4. Exogenous Factors in Neo-Classical Micro-Economics Keith Hartley, University of York 5. Exogenous Factors in Neo-Classical Macro-Economics Arjo Klamer, George Washington University Part II: Alternative Approaches Among Economists 6. Post-Marxian Economics: Labour, Learning and History Samuel Bowles, University of Massachusetts 7. Information Economics: "Threatened Wreckage" or New Paradigm? Don Lamberton, CIRCIT, Australia 8. Institutional Economics: Legacy and New Directions Geoff Hodgson, Newcastle Polytechnic Part III: Voices from the Exogenous Domain 9. Political Science and the Study of the Economy Leon Lindburg, University of Wisconsin 10. Endogenous and Exogenous Factors in the Analysis of Linkages between Economics and Demography Samuel Preston, University of Pennsylvania 11. The Psychologist's View of the Exogenous Domain Alan Lewis, University of Bath 12. A Sociological Perspective on Strategies of Dealing with Exogenous Complexity in Economic Analysis Alberto Martinelli, Milan University and Neil Smelser, University of California, Berkeley 13. Law as an Exogenous Factor in Economic Analysis Britt-Mari Blegvad, Institut for Org. og Arbejdssociologi, Denmark and Finn Collin, Filosofisk Institut, Denmark 14. Toward a Lexicographic Preference-Actor Structure Theory Ulf Himmelstrand Part IV: Bridging the Gap 15. Economistic Imperialism or Interdisciplinary Social Science? Lars Ud Ehn, Sociologiska Institutionen, Sweden 16. In Search of an Interdisciplinary Approach for Economic and Social Analysis Ulf Himmelstrand.