Friedrich Hayek was a fervent advocate of the methodological specificity of the social sciences. However, given his contact with Karl Popper, several historians and philosophers have characterised his final position as Popperian, that is, a position that would have accepted the unity of the...

On the Scalability of Cooperative Structures -- Why Profit Is Not the Problem -- Egalitarianism and Status Hierarchy -- A Defence of Stigmatization -- A Unified Theory of Border Control and Reasonable Accommodation -- Two Dilemmas for U.S. Race Relations.

"Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek-economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics, and champion of classical liberalism. Hayek's erudite arguments in support of individualism and the market economy have...

A pragmatic social science offers a media res in relation to hermeneutical and critical theoretical models of social scientific inquiry that is more than the sum of these parts, methodologically speaking, because pragmatism wants to draw as well on other methods in social science, such as...

Introduction: What is the Neoliberal Imagination? -- Liberalism, Enlightenment, and Bourgeois Society -- Capitalism and the Progress of the World (1840-1918) -- Capital and the 'Natural History of Destruction' (1918-48) -- Consumption, Individualism, and Mass Society (1950-79) -- Neoliberalism...

"In Rethinking Marxist Theories of Transition, Onur Acaroglu traces the concept of transition across the tracts of Classical and Western Marxism. Rarely directly invoked, transition between different societies appears as an imminent social reality, and a useful conceptual tool for critical...

"Recent attempts to revitalize Hegel's social and political philosophy have tended to be doubly constrained: firstly, by their focus on Hegel's Philosophy of Right ; and secondly, by their broadly liberal interpretive framework. Challenging that trend, Arash Abazari shows that the locus of...

The culture in the Ostroms : institutions, rules, and relational reality / Mili Kalia -- Social services as impure public goods : Ostromian lessons for their provision in contemporary welfare states / Roland Fritz -- Polycentric party governance : competition, federalism, and the production of...

"This book discusses Ambedkar's engagements with the issues of social justice, economic development, and caste enclosures. It highlights his significant contributions in the field of trade, public finance and monetary economics, Indian agriculture, education, among others, and examines their...

Introduction : getting in -- Winners and losers -- "Great because good" : a brief moral history of merit -- The rhetoric of rising -- Credentialism : the last acceptable prejudice -- Success ethics -- The sorting machine -- Recognizing work -- Conclusion.

Introduction / Angela Condello -- Money : ontology and deception / John R. Searle -- The color of money / Maurizio Ferraris -- Socio-legal reality in the making : money as a paradigm / Angela Condello -- Conclusion / Angela Condello.

List of figures -- List of tables. Part 1 Introducing evolving work: employing self and community : Centring: releasing GENE-IUS: integrity at work. Part 2 South: employing the community : Chinyika: grounding local people: communal identity to communal upskilling -- Civil economy: gift...

This book explores the life and work of Austrian-British economist, political economist, and social philosopher, Friedrich Hayek. Set within a context of the recent financial crisis, alongside the renewed interest in Hayek and the Hayek-Keynes debate, the book introduces the main themes of...

The world of the senior manager -- Management as a common sense construct -- Studies in the practicalities of executive management -- Representations and realities -- Representations without metaphysics -- Intersubjectivity and the arts of financial management -- The contingencies of due process...