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

Marco Cavalieri

Journal of Economic Issues, 2016, vol. 50, issue 2, 345-361

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2016.1176476

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