Methodological Individualism

as theory of choice 121–2, 123, 124;tri-partition of 89, 92; utilitarian 49–58Edgeworth, Francis Y. 51–2egoistic principle 52Ellwood, Charles 65–6Elster, Jon 2, 96, 187, 252, 305, 319, 324,330, 335, 344, 345, 357, 380, 382–3,386; rational choice 310–16emergence 45, 299, 328emergent evolution 38–9Emerson, Richard M. 194–5empiricism 23, 44, 47, 107, 322, 338, 386;British 168–73; systematic 179–89,372–3Engels, Friedrich 12Enlightenment 168environmentalism 342–3, 385–6epistemology 213, 217–18, 325, 351–3,354, 386equilibrium 114essentialism 201, 202ethnomethodology 85, 126, 137, 165,370–1, 374; common understandings151–2; described 150; indexicality 151,155–8; interpretative/normativeparadigm 153; rules 152–3; society asprocess 150–5; subjectivist 159–60ethology 44, 46–7evolutionary economics, background281–2; firm 284–5; group 282–4;habits/routines 285–6exchange theory 189–90, 294–5, 373–4,378; Homan’s 190–6, 374existentialism 126, 144–9, 167explanation 164, 282, 299–300, 311–12,313, 332, 335, 354–6, 357, 386, 387;half-way 215–16, 312expressive individualism 25–7face-to-face interaction 134–5fallacies 184–5false individualism 15family see householdFaris, Ellsworth 130, 368Fechner, Gustav 60Feigl, Herbert 173feminism 162Ferguson, Adam 10Feyerabend, Paul 327Fichte, Johann Gottlieb 60firm, the, as capitalist enterprise 265–6;contractual view 268–70; evolutionary284–5; principal-agent 271–2; profitmaximisation284–5; property rights270–1; routines 285; transaction costs258–60, 266–8, 269Fischer, Irving 56Fisher, Ronald A. 179folk souls 38, 40, 361Frankfurt School 85freedom 145–6freedom of will 95–6Frege, Gottlob 68Friedman, Milton 121, 239, 276, 277, 279,377–8Fries, Jacob Friedrich 59functionalism 101–2, 116, 190, 280, 283,291, 292, 306, 382Galton, Francis 179game theory 91, 250–4, 264, 284, 289,311, 313, 366, 383Garfinkel, Harold 155–6, 157–8, 159, 370Geanakoplos, John 244Geisteswissenschaften 138Gellner, Ernest 383general equilibrium theory 241–50, 257;indeterminacy 250; institutionalelements 241–8; objections to 378;stability 248–9; uniqueness 249–50generalised other 129Gergen, Kenneth J. 137, 162German Historical School 23, 94, 97, 98,243, 322German historicism see historicismGerman Sociological Association 99, 207Giddens, Anthony 76, 85, 147, 163,164–5, 187Giddings, Franklin H. 65Gierke, Otto von 381Gödel, Kurt 173Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 25Goffman, Erving 134–5, 153Goldstein, Leon 216Goldthorpe, John 189, 359Gordon, Chad 137Granovetter, Mark 195Gray, Tim S. 31Gruchy, Allan G. 256Gurwitch, Aron 137, 369Habermas, Jürgen 85, 141Hahn, Frank H. 244Hargreaves Heap, Shaun P. 253–4Harré, Rom 186, 373Harsanyi, John C. 252, 291–2, 365Index 443