Schumpeter and the Idea of Social Science: A Metatheoretical Study

Yūichi Shionoya

Cambridge University Press, Apr 10, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 354 pages

This book is a comprehensive investigation of the work of Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950), one of the great economists of the twentieth century. In this study, Yuichi Shionoya highlights Schumpeter's methodological views and emphasizes his ideal of a universal social science. Taking on board all aspects of his work, he reconstructs a system which encompasses theory (economic statics, economic dynamics, economic sociology) and metatheory (philosophy of science, history and sociology of science). The originality of Schumpeter's work - which the author calls the two-structure approach to the evolution of mind and society - is examined in the light of the intellectual field in Germany and Austria in the early twentieth century. This book is a major contribution to the history of economic thought.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Schumpeter and the Idea of Social Science: A Metatheoretical Study; Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
• Author: Yūichi Shionoya
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0521430348, 9780521430340
• Length: 354 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists; Business & Economics / Economic History; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Business & Economics / Economics / Theory; Philosophy / General; Social Science / General