1st Edition

Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences

By Paul Diesing Copyright 2005
484 Pages
by Routledge

484 Pages
by Routledge

483 Pages
by Routledge

The purpose of this book is to examine how ideology operates - in the sense of influencing the conduct of inquiry - in the policy sciences, defined as economics, political science, and sociology. In it, Diesing critically explores all the major schools of policy-related social thought from 1930 to 1975. Richard Hartwig, in his new introduction, notes, 'In 1982, Diesing published a remarkable book... Read more
1: Social Studies of Science; I: ; 2: Neoclassical Economics; 3: Extended Applications of the Neoclassical Perspective; 4: Keynesian Economics; 5: The Objectification of Society; The Systems Approach; 6: Schumpeter and the Intellectuals; 7: The Critical Intellectuals; 8: Galbraith and the Objectification of Government; 9: New Left Marxism; 10: Schumacher and Appropriate Technology; 11: Summary of Part I; II: ; 12: Some Historical Patterns; 13: Science and Morality; 14: The Organization of Science; 15: The Growth of Science

Biography

Paul Diesing