On Economic Methodogies -- Multiple dimension of Social Science

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25285066
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic doctrine/Economic thought
• Research Institution: Matsuyama University
• Principal Investigator: Matsui Natsu 松山大学, 経済学部, 教授 (10320110)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Nakazawa Nobuhiko 関西大学, 経済学部, 教授 (40309208) ; Kubo Shin 関西学院大学, 経済学部, 教授 (30276399) ; Sasaki Kensuke 北海道大学, 人文科学研究科(研究院), 教授 (50178646) ; Egashira Susumu 小樽商科大学, 商学部, 教授 (80292077) ; UEMIYA Tomoyuki 大阪経済大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (80580828) ; Tadakoshi Chikakazu 中央大学, 経済学部, 教授 (60179710) ; Hirose Kouki 福井県立大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (20286157) ; Haraya Naoki 群馬県立女子大学, 国際コミュニケーション学部, 講師 (30707138)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 経済学方法論 / 知性史 / 社会科学と周辺科学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our research group had studied the history of economic methodology in Britain with the aid of JSPS’s grant and published a book on that theme. But in the process of that study, we found it necessary to explore other disciplines in order to understand the whole facets of economic methodology. More specifically, we thought we should take into consideration the related disciplines to economic methodology such as philosophy, ethics, natural sciences, etc.
On such an understanding as ours, we worked out this time, i.e. philosophical, moral, sociological and scientific ones, and attempted to investigate into how economic methodology had developed in the history of economics in connection with these dimensions. Although eventually we came to focus on not four, but three dimensions, we intend to publish a book on this scheme.

Free Research Field

J.S.ミルの社会科学論