Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Sociality and social science......Page 14
The rise of the Age of Science......Page 29
Social laws......Page 46
Political theory and political philosophy......Page 70
Physiocracy: the first economic model......Page 101
The methodology of modelling......Page 113
The Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century......Page 124
Progress and perfection......Page 161
Classical political economy......Page 181
The idea of harmonious order......Page 224
Utilitarianism......Page 261
French positivism and the beginnings of sociology......Page 284
The Marxian theory of society......Page 318
The methodology of history......Page 403
The development of sociological theory......Page 424
Biology, social science, and social policy......Page 507
The development of economic theory......Page 559
The foundations of science......Page 602
Name index......Page 682
Subject index......Page 693
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