Understanding Society

Hollis Chenery and T. N. Srinivasan published the  Handbook of Development Economics  in 1988.  It was state-of-the-art in the late 1980s. ...

How can we assess the epistemic warrant of an economic model that purports to represent some aspects of economic reality?  The general prob...

Social contention theorists Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly created a great deal of interest in the "mechanisms" app...

People sometimes describe India as undergoing an economic miracle in the past twenty years.  After decades of indolent economic growth foll...

What are some of the important ways in which economic analysis is pertinent to historical research and explanation?  This was the topic of ...

It is interesting to think about the work that intellectuals do. Basically, they take on thought problems -- what is justice? How does a ...

As noted in an earlier post, John Rawls delivered a fundamentally important course on the history of political philosophy at Harvard throug...

Several posts have focused recently on the meandering pathways through which the social science disciplines have developed in the past cent...