Humanomics: Volume 5 Issue 1

SOCIO‐HUMAN ECONOMY: IN SEARCH OF A PARADIGM

Leonard Pluta

Introduction The objectives of this paper are twofold. Firstly, we will define economic paradigm by identifying its structure and functions. Secondly, we will apply this concept…

ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF MEANINGS OF SUBJECTIVITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

Takatsugu Nato

Introduction Science and Technology vs. Holistic Wisdom There have been attempts to get rid of monism in the outlook on the world (die Weltanschauung) which includes human wisdom…

ON THE ROLE OF A TRANSCENDENT IN HUMAN ECONOMY: TOWARD A NEW SYNTHESIS

Thomas O. Nitsch, Bruce J. Malina

Introduction We would like to make it clear at the outset that the present essay is not an essay in theology. Theology deals with the articulation of some symbol of the Ultimate…

EVANGELIZATION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS: A CATHOLIC VIEW

Rev. Charles D. Skok

Religion and religious people have been viewed as detrimental to human and social progress. In a now classic case, Edward Gibbon's The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire held the…

UNIONISM AND THE JUDEO‐CHRISTIAN SOCIAL GOSPEL

J. Kenneth Davies

Warren S. Stone, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, when asked, at the height of the anti‐union open shop movement of the 1920s, what labor thought of the…

Epistemology, Methodology and Economic Policy: Some Thoughts on Mainstream, Austrian and Islamic Economics

Volker Nienhaus

The aim of this paper is to show that there is need for revitalization of the normative branch of political economy. The first part of this paper will deal with some…