Preface / Angelo Fusari -- Acknowledgments / Angelo Fusari -- Introduction / Angelo Fusari -- 1. The method of social theory: suggestions for a shared basic view / Angelo Fusari -- Introduction -- 1.1. The untenable positivist legacy -- 1.2. The anti-positivist reaction -- 1.3. Some more recent developments -- 1.4. On the methodological procedure and rules of social science -- 1.5. Necessity, choice, functional and ontological imperatives in the constitution and organization of social systems -- 1.6. Evolution and institutions. The interpretation of social Processes -- 1.7. Conclusion -- 2. Homo Œconomicus versus Homo Politicus / Hasse Ekstedt -- Introduction -- 2.1. The neoclassical general equilibrium theory -- 2.2. The complications of Arrow's paradox and the Marxist interpretation -- 2.3. Towards a Homo Rationalis -- 2.4. Summing up -- 3. The axiological-normative question in economics and social sciences: objective and subjective values / Angelo Fusari -- Introduction -- 3.1. A quick review of the treatment of values in the modern world, before the twentieth century. Vico's premonitory contribution -- 3.2. A turning point: Weber's irrational rationality -- 3.3. Ambiguities and circumlocutions on the
