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Unlike other multi-disciplinary headings, for instance cognitive science, the social sciences still appear as a grouping, a mere aggregate of disciplines, rather than a disciplinary synthesis. Neo-classic economics as well as the science of law claimed that they should do without the contribution of other disciplines like sociology, history and psychology.
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(From Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography)
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Conte, R., Hegselmann, R., Terna, P. (1997). Introduction: Social Simulation — A New Disciplinary Synthesis. In: Conte, R., Hegselmann, R., Terna, P. (eds) Simulating Social Phenomena. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 456. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03366-1_1
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