AN OVERARCHING MODEL FOR THE MICRO AND MACRO PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

George McMillan ()
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No 2504062, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: This paper introduces the methodology to create a unified theory of the philosophical and social sciences in the behavioral-political-economic-demographic sequence. The two major ideological political-economic philosophies (Hume-Smith and Marx-Engels) are systematized into competing integrated three dimensional behavioral-political-economic models. The paper argues that Hume-Smith?s empathy-sympathy behavioral assumptions are a sufficient starting point to create the integrated causal model sought by Tooby and Cosmides. The author then shows that the prerequisite advances in psychology and demographic studies now exist to generate the universal economic theory sought by von Neumann-Morgenstern and the integrated behavioral-economic method of Gintis?a psychological (i.e., behavioral) socio-economic model. By updating Hume-Smith?s work with a modern understanding of psychology, as presented by Fromm and others, a new integrated societal model as postulated by Harsanyi can be created that intertwines the social and psychological sciences. The author argues that this fundamentally psychology-based model also can serve as a baseline equation for all social sciences as desired by Kant and Mach, as well as the ahistorical (psychological) philosophic model noted by Husserl, Heidegger, Tillich, and Strauss. The author concludes with a discussion of the necessary next steps to generating a detailed model that fuses these disciplines.

Keywords: Unified; theory; Model; of; the; Micro; and; Macro; Behavioral; Sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B12 B31 P50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2015-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-his and nep-hpe
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 16th International Academic Conference, Amsterdam, Jun 2015, pages 320-358

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