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Scope and Method of Schumpeter's Universal Social Science: Economic Sociology, Instrumentalism, and Rhetoric

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Yuichi Shionoya
Yuichi Shionoya
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Emeritus Professor of Economics, Hitotsubashi University. Home Address: 3-34-8 Sakuragaoka, Tama, Tokyo 206–0013, Japan.
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This paper brings together and expands methodological ideas on Joseph Alois Schumpeter that I have discussed in detail and at length elsewhere (Shionoya 1997). Schumpeter is known for his wide-ranging work, and I interpret it as an attempt a universal social science consisting of three systems of thought: i.e., substantive theory, metatheory, and pretheory. These three systems stand for the scope and method of his universal social science.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 331 - 347
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2004

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