Robert Staughton Lynd Quote

The failure of the social sciences to think through and to integrate their several responsibilities for the common problem of relating the analysis of parts to the analysis of the whole constitutes one of the major lags crippling their utility as human tools of knowledge.


R.S. Lynd (1939) Knowledge of what? p. 15, cited in Karl William Kapp (1976), The nature and significance of institutional economics. in: Kyklos, Vol 29/2, Jan 1976, p. 209


The failure of the social sciences to think through and to integrate their several responsibilities for the common problem of relating the analysis...

The failure of the social sciences to think through and to integrate their several responsibilities for the common problem of relating the analysis...

The failure of the social sciences to think through and to integrate their several responsibilities for the common problem of relating the analysis...

The failure of the social sciences to think through and to integrate their several responsibilities for the common problem of relating the analysis...