Inside Institutions of Progressive-Era Social Sciences: The Interdisciplinarity of Economics and Sociology

In the Progressive Era, sociology and institutional economics shared some important methodological principles and theoretical constructs. This study explores some of these similarities, focusing on the ideas and theories of Albion Small and Franklin Giddings, who were the most important sociologists...

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Published inJournal of economic issues Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 345 - 361
Main Author Cavalieri, Marco
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.04.2016
Taylor & Francis, Ltd
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
20th century
Albion Small
American sociology
Economics
Franklin Giddings
Historiography
institutional economics
Small, Albion Woodbury (1854-1926)
Social sciences
Sociologists
Sociology
The 2016 James Street Scholar
Thorstein Veblen
United States > US
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Summary:In the Progressive Era, sociology and institutional economics shared some important methodological principles and theoretical constructs. This study explores some of these similarities, focusing on the ideas and theories of Albion Small and Franklin Giddings, who were the most important sociologists in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Since the literature on the history of the interdisciplinarity of economics and sociology is somewhat scarce, this study aims to contribute to this historiography by considering the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of early institutional economics - mainly from the standpoint of Veblenian institutional economics.
ISSN:0021-3624
1946-326X
DOI:10.1080/00213624.2016.1176476