Methodological Shortcomings in Hannah Arendt’s Conceptualization of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

Methodological Shortcomings in Classical Mathematical Economics: A Critical Examination of the Contributions of Cournot, Jevons and Walras

This paper examines critically the contributions of Cournot, Jevons and Walras as the founders of classical mathematical economics from a methodological standpoint. Advances in different economic schools and doctrines in the 19th century produced an environment of multi-dimensionality in economic analysis which was regarded by the pioneers of classical mathematical economists as a chaotic state...

Islamism and Totalitarianism

Ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and even more so since the spectacular attacks by Qa‘idat al-Jihad against the U.S. on 9/11, there has been an ever-growing flood of academic and journalistic publications devoted to radical Islam. Unfortunately, much of that literature has embodied problematic conceptual perspectives that can best be characterized as ‘Islam bashing’, ‘Islam apologism’, o...

Economic valuation of special forest products: an assessment of methodological shortcomings

The study analyses strengths and weaknesses of different methods for calculating the economic importance of forest products extracted by rural populations. The results show that methods frequently used by scholars are subject to serious uncertainty. The study is based on a 1-year survey in two flood plain villages in the Peruvian Amazon. Different methods were studied in relation to local extra...

methodological shortcomings in classical mathematical economics: a critical examination of the contributions of cournot, jevons and walras

this paper examines critically the contributions of cournot, jevons and walras as the founders of classical mathematical economics from a methodological standpoint. advances in different economic schools and doctrines in the 19th century produced an environment of multi-dimensionality in economic analysis which was regarded by the pioneers of classical mathematical economists as a chaotic state...