Economic Methodology and Freedom to Choose

(The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and very welcome to all students of methodology, in particular those students of economic methodology seeking a refreshing alternative to yet more mathematical game playing. In an age dominated and perhaps to an extent perplexed by an ultimately non-committal postmodernism the book provides a root and branch critique of the epistemological relativism which must lie at the root of the whole post-modernist approach; and in reasserting the fundamental importance not only for the methods of science but also for European civilization of the pursuit of truth it takes a stance which is very much against the tide of the times) Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences.