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The Political Economy of Social Science: Where the Trail Leads

Department of Political Science R-100, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 32306-2049, U.S.A

This paper is intended as a search to identify the conclusions about the social sciences which result from applying insights from political economy. Two major findings were their ties to governments and their membership in the knowledge industry, a group of multinationals whose existence gives a competitive edge to paradigms espoused by the rich and the developed. The postwar domiance of U.S. paradigms is thus traced to overall U.S. dominance and not to their intrinsic merits. Nor are these paradigms seen as international reference models which fol lowed Kuhnian-type revolutions.

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