Transforming socio-economics with a new epistemology

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 395-426

  Hollingsworth, Rogers ^a   Müller, Karl H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Vienna Institute for Social Science Documentation and Methodology   (Austria)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Epistemology; Inequality; Interdisciplinarity; Multi level analysis; Power law distributions; Socio economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 46149085170     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwn006     Document Type: Article

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