The Nature of Economic Science and Its Relation to Social Philosophy.

The article focuses on the nature of economic science and its relation to social philosophy. The subject of the present paper is such a peripheral study of the views expressed by famous sociologist Buckle. It is concerned with the nature of economic science and its relationships with some of its kindred social sciences, particularly of social philosophy. This two-fold nature of the present topic brings the writer face to face with a twofold difficulty. The first is that he is concerned with elucidating the nature of a science which even in these days of alleged enlightenment and educational progress is as much maligned as it is little understood. The second is that his subject lies on the borderlands of economics. For the misunderstanding of which this infant among the sciences has been a long-suffering victim, economists themselves cannot be held entirely free from censure. Certain incautious statements and poorly worded phrases, certain unnecessary and deprecable acerbities in professional controversy, have furnished material which their enemies were not slow to seize upon, to generalize and to use against economists as a class.