Social knowledge : an essay on the nature and limits of social science / / by Paul Mattick.
How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sciences? In Social Knowledge, Paul Mattick argues that the well-known difficulties of the social sciences--in particular the predictive and explanatory fai...
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