{"title":"Bastiat as a Social Scientist","authors":"L. Robert","doi":"10.1515/JEEH-2019-0009","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that, notwithstanding views to the contrary, Frederic Bastiat (Bayonne, 1801; Rome, 1850) was indeed a man of science. Thus, in several of his essays he showed that political economy can attain a level of scientific rigor comparable in many respects to that of the natural sciences. Subscribing to the principle of methodological individualism, he offered some persuasive explanations for why people believe in a multitude of things. After examining science as Bastiat conceived it, we shall look at two important examples, mechanization and rational voting.","PeriodicalId":53483,"journal":{"name":"Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/JEEH-2019-0009","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article argues that, notwithstanding views to the contrary, Frederic Bastiat (Bayonne, 1801; Rome, 1850) was indeed a man of science. Thus, in several of his essays he showed that political economy can attain a level of scientific rigor comparable in many respects to that of the natural sciences. Subscribing to the principle of methodological individualism, he offered some persuasive explanations for why people believe in a multitude of things. After examining science as Bastiat conceived it, we shall look at two important examples, mechanization and rational voting.
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The Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines (JEEH) is a journal of political economy and interdisciplinary economic studies. It addresses economic issues in political theory, social dynamics, social science methodology, and philosophy. Today, JEEH has an international audience, and welcomes contributions written by scholars from around the world. JEEH''s goals are: -To bring together economics with neighboring disciplines such as law, history, political science, sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology -To promote the development of the Austrian approach to economics (Austrian School) and to provide discussion and controversy -To reconcile economics with the ethical and policy-oriented principles which make coordinated interaction between human beings possible
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