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Preface | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Knowledge as a Capacity to Act | 1 |
2 | Social Science and Practice | 6 |
The self-conception of social scientists | 7 | |
The deficit of social science knowledge | 12 | |
Excursus: The Authority of Complexity | 15 | |
Keynes's theory as an exemplary case | 22 | |
3 | The Science of Application | 26 |
The model of instrumentality | 27 | |
The logic of justification and the logic of practice | 40 | |
The convergence of intellectual traditions | 42 | |
Excursus: Max Weber and the Political Virtues of Social Science Knowledge | 48 | |
Society, culture and science | 51 | |
Religion and scientific activity | 52 | |
The legitimacy of social scientific activity | 53 | |
The authority of discourse | 55 | |
Conclusion | 59 | |
4 | Economic Policy as Applied Social Science | 65 |
Politics and the economy | 70 | |
Knowledge for practice | 71 | |
Correspondence versus identity | 81 | |
Practical knowledge | 89 | |
Economic knowledge | 90 | |
The state as entrepreneur | 93 | |
The conditions for the crisis of Keynesian economic policy | 106 | |
5 | Pragmatic Knowledge | 117 |
Knowledge guiding interests and practice | 118 | |
Knowing and doing | 125 | |
Local knowledge and practice | 126 | |
Social and natural science knowledge in action | 128 | |
Excursus: Sociology as Enlightenment | 131 | |
The preconditions for the rule of the new elite | 138 | |
Disadvantages and benefits of a pragmatic social science | 144 | |
Conclusion | 152 | |
Bibliography | 155 | |
Appendix: Selected Macro-economic Trends | 177 | |
Index | 183 |
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