The Saving Lie : : Truth and Method in the Social Sciences /

The Saving Lie : : Truth and Method in the Social Sciences / / F. G. Bailey.

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This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice model...

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Bailey, F. G.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2003
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Ideas, Reality, and Saving Lies
  • Part I. Expediency
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. A Very Beautiful Theory
  • Chapter 2. The Coase Recension and Its Lineage
  • Chapter 3. Gains from Trade
  • Part II. Morality
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4. Natural Systems and Moral Systems
  • Chapter 5. Imaginative Constructs and Social Reality
  • Chapter 6. A Piece of the Action
  • Part III. Agency and Rhetoric
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 7. Affirming Structure: The Amen Category
  • Chapter 8. Contested Structures
  • Conclusion: General Theses and Particular Cases
  • References
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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