Causality and Causal Modelling in the Social Sciences Measuring Variations /

• Main Author: Russo, Federica (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Methodos Series ; 5
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Statistics.; Economics.; Management science.; Population.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Economics, general.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Population Economics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

The anti-causal prophecies of last century have been disproved. Causality is neither a ‘relic of a bygone’ nor ‘another fetish of modern science’; it still occupies a large part of the current debate in philosophy and the sciences. This investigation into causal modelling presents the rationale of c...