WILLIAM FIELDING OGBURN AND THE INSTITUTIONALISTS. A CASE OF THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE?
This paper investigates the relationship between William Ogburn and the Institutionalists. This is done by assessing Ogburn's contribution in the light of the methodological debates that animated academia during the 1920s and the early 1930s — the years that marked the peak of the Institutional...
| Veröffentlicht in: | History of Economic Ideas. - Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali®. - 22(2014), 2, Seite 101-144 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | History of Economic Ideas |
| Schlagworte: | Behavioral sciences Law Applied sciences Social sciences Philosophy Economics |
| Zusammenfassung: | This paper investigates the relationship between William Ogburn and the Institutionalists. This is done by assessing Ogburn's contribution in the light of the methodological debates that animated academia during the 1920s and the early 1930s — the years that marked the peak of the Institutionalists influence in American economics — and by comparing his work with that of some of the more 'sociologically oriented' figures of the movement. The present paper is organized as follows. The first two sections deal with Ogburn's epistemic commitments with respect to the main methodological debates of the period. The second section reviews Ogburn's 1922 Social Change and his theory of social evolution. The third section is devoted to a scrutiny of the parallels between Veblen and Ogburn. The fourth and fifth section discuss the affinities between Ogburn and the contributions of the Institutionalists, with a focus on the work of Albert B. Wolfe, Rexford G. Tugwell, Lawrence K. Frank, and Clarence E. Ayres. The final section presents some conclusions. |
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| ISSN: | 17242169 |