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Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 06:33:23 -0400
From: dbbwanika-AT-netscape.net
Subject: RE: BHA: Re: path dependence - thanks!


Listers!

A small question, does social science make a difference between society and state institutions and their respective ahistorical and historical development respectively on both the methodological and theoretical levels?

I am asking since my investigations shows that the family unit on a state level, is interpreted in the same manners as a public bus service, in a local district.

Second on the law implementation level, the same situation seems to apply which to my surprise less caution is paid to other social attributes.

Let us take an issue of reproductive health for example- it appears to me that where methodological and theoretical interpretation of the same emerges i.e. in labour markets, wages, moral attributes etc, reproductive health is interpreted in the same manner as a production lines, therefore gender relations are equated with the economic theorem of production function. 

While on both psychological and physical levels the need for human reproduction is not solely determined by let us say rigorous methodological presuppositions, maximising behaviour, and where static-equilibrium states rules but rather more of historical factors.

the question still remains, what is the difference between the state and society under different social science fields?


Bwanika. 


Paschalis Arvanitidis <p.arvanitidis-AT-abdn.ac.uk> wrote:

>Dear Altug and all,
>
 Their approach is grounded on the foundations laid down by Thorstein Veblen and John R. Commons rejecting all mainstream economic assumptions (such as methodological individualism, maximising economic behaviour, and static-equilibrium states)
>
>kind regards,
>
>Paschalis Arvanitidis
>University of Aberdeen, Scotland
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: a. yalcintas
>  To: bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>  Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:28 PM
>  Subject: BHA: path dependence - thanks!
>
>
>  Dear list members,
>
>  I would really want to send to you my regards for your kind interest in the question I have raised about path dependence, especially to Dick Moodey,
>  Paschalis and Marsh Feldman. I would say these references are totally helpful in getting into the literature on 'historical economics'. However I still have some personal doubts about historical economists' "critical" stand in social theory, as Ben Fine quite fairly points out. See that some of the references you have mentioned belong to a conventionalist interpretation of doing economics science. And yet, I would say, the literature on path dependence does not completely depend on 'mainstream' presumptions (see for instance Tony Lawson's chapter on PD in his book Economics and Reality), although many of them really do (such as evolutionary game theorists widely and successfully scrutinised in Jack Vromen's Economic Evolution: London, Routledge, 1995). I am not sure of my self to open a discussing on this issue via the email list; however, I would appreciate any perspective or comment on the subject.
>
>  Friendly,
>
>  Altug
>


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