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Episode 7 - How Can Sociology Help Economics?

Author: Robert Skidelsky | Source: INET

In economics, the key behavioral idea is individual self-interest. In sociology, it is the social “norm.” The first abstracts from society. The second presupposes it.

 

In this seventh lecture in INET’s “How and How Not to Do Economics,” Robert Skidelsky looks at economics’ relationship with sociology.

 

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Aug 30, 2021

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