I've been meaning to write a follow up to this post for a while now. In the earlier post, I attempted to draw a distinction between positivist and computationalist systems. Specifically, I argued that while positivist systems have as their foundation immutable "givens" (or "facts")--and so are vulnerable to Lukacs' criticism that they exclude the ( Read more... )

My globalization class has finally stopped doing political economy and started doing sociology, which is good relative to my interests in the course.
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