INTRODUCTION INTO THE SUBJECT

THESIS, 1993, no. 1
INTRODUCTION INTO THE SUBJECT-MATTER
CONTENTS
ECONOMIC THEORY .............................................................................. 9
Lionel Robbins (United Kingdom)
THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF ECONOMICS ........................................... 10
Gary S. Becker (USA)
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR ................................. 24
Robert L. Heilbroner (USA)
ECONOMICS AS UNIVERSAL SCIENCE............................................... 41
SOCIAL THEORY .................................................................................. 56
Anthony Giddens (United Kingdom)
NINE THESES ON THE FUTURE OF SOCIOLOGY................................ 57
Terry Johnson, Christopher Dandeker and Clive Ashworth
(United Kingdom)
THEORETICAL SOCIOLOGY: THE CONDITIONS
OF FRAGMENTATION AND UNITY....................................................... 83
ECONOMIC HISTORY......................................................................... 106
Donald N. McCloskey (USA)
DOES THE PAST HAVE USEFUL ECONOMICS? ................................ 107
Pierre Chaunu (France)
L'ECONOMIE: DEPASSEMENT ET PROSPECTIVE ............................. 137
SOCIAL HISTORY ............................................................................... 152
Theodore Zeldin (United Kingdom)
SOCIAL HISTORY AND TOTAL HISTORY ........................................... 154
Reinhard Sieder (Österreich)
WAS HEISST SOZIALGESCHICHTE? BRÜCHE
UND KONTINUITÄTEN IN DER ANEIGNUNG DES "SOZIALEN" .......... 163
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY ................................................................. 182
NOBEL PRIZE LECTURE
MAXIMUM PRINCIPLES IN ANALYTICAL ECONOMICS
By Paul A. Samuelson (USA) .......................................................... 184
JOURNAL
ANNALES: ECONOMIES. SOCIETES. CIVILISATIONS
By Lyudmila A. Pimenova (Russia) ................................................ 203
BIOGRAPHY
VERNER CONZE: TRADITION UND INNOVATION
Von Reinhart Kosellek (Deutschland) ............................................ 214
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS BY WESTERN ECONOMISTS OF THE 18th – BEGINNING
OF THE 20th CENTURIES, PUBLISHED IN RUSSIA
By Yuri V. Latov (Russia)................................................................ 227