On Rogers Hollingsworth and Karl H. Muller 'Transforming socio-economics with a new epistemology', Socio-Economic Review, 6 (2008), 395-426

Abstract

Abstract:In this essay, I attempt to provide supporting evidence as well as some balance for the thesis on 'Transforming socio-economics with a new epistemology' presented by Hollingworth and Müller (2008). First, I review a personal highlight of my own scientific path that illustrates the power of interdisciplinarity as well as unity of the mathematical description of natural and social processes. I also argue against the claim that complex systems are in general 'not susceptible to mathematical analysis, but must be understood by letting them evolve-over time or with simulation analysis'. Moreover, I present evidence of the limits of the claim that scientists working within Science II do not make predictions about the future because it is too complex. I stress the potentials for a third 'Quantum Science' and its associated conceptual and philosophical revolutions, and finally point out some limits of the 'new' theory of networks.2

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“…However, there is no clear understanding of what is included in the term 'socioeconomic' in agricultural research in general. Mann [55] provides a general overview of socioeconomics in agriculture and mainly draws upon a definition from Boyer [56] (p. 744) who suggests that "socio-economics is about the investigation of the origin, transformation and impact of governance structures in modern societies". According to Mann [55] (p. 3), "socioeconomics should focus on the institutional arrangements people have given themselves to organize social, economic and political relations".…”

The JCMS Annual Lecture: National Welfare States and European Integration: In Search of a ‘Virtuous Nesting’*

“…, 2005). For a general discussion of the promising epistemological and theoretical links between the social sciences and the bio‐sciences see Hollingsworth and Mueller (2008) and Boyer et al. (2008).…”