The notion of growth is one the most studied notions within economic theory and, traditionally, it accounted for based on a positivist thesis according to which assumptions are not relevant, if models have acceptable predictive power. Following this view, does matter whether realistic or not. Arguments against principle may involve defence over highly idealized false ones. This article aims in ...

This article investigates German-speaking scholarship’s reception of the programme scientific sociology that Durkheim presented in The Rules Sociological Method . It highlights intra-European historical dynamics and academic hierarchies. References to national, cultural, disciplinary theoretical frames reference are clearly discernible ways have been read has mapped. First, his was embedded a c...

Human nature is a very complex phenomenon. In physical therapy this complexity is enhanced by the need to understand the intersection between the art and science of human behavior and patient care. A paradigm is a set of basic beliefs that represent a worldview, defines the nature of the world and the individuals place in it, and helps to determine criteria used to select and define research in...