Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences

by Paul Diesing

Overview

The purpose of this book is to examine how ideology operates - in the sense of influencing the conduct of inquiry - in the policy sciences, defined as economics, political science, and sociology. In it, Diesing critically explores all the major schools of policy-related social thought from 1930 to 1975. Richard Hartwig, in his new introduction, notes, 'In 1982, Diesing published a remarkable book entitled Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences. [It] was the best book I had read in a decade, and it related directly to all the policy sciences…. I consider this to be the most brilliant of Diesing's books. Like all of Diesing's works, it remains highly relevant today.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138532274
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/20/2017
Pages:	483
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Diesing is professor emeritus of political science at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He did his graduate studies in philosophy from the University of Chicago and has taught at that university, the University of Illinois, and the University of Colorado. Diesing has also been a faculty associate at the Buffalo Center for International Conflict Studies, where he participated in the Center's program of researching in bargaining theory and international crises. He is the author of Reason in Society: Five Types of Decisions and Their Social Conditions and Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences.

Table of Contents

1: Social Studies of Science; I: ; 2: Neoclassical Economics; 3: Extended Applications of the Neoclassical Perspective; 4: Keynesian Economics; 5: The Objectification of Society; The Systems Approach; 6: Schumpeter and the Intellectuals; 7: The Critical Intellectuals; 8: Galbraith and the Objectification of Government; 9: New Left Marxism; 10: Schumacher and Appropriate Technology; 11: Summary of Part I; II: ; 12: Some Historical Patterns; 13: Science and Morality; 14: The Organization of Science; 15: The Growth of Science