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Brian Epstein, “The Social World, Reexamined” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Economics

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The Ontology of the Social World

The social world isn't people, rather, it's an emergent phenomenon out of people interacting with each other. If you really want to understand society as a whole, what you have to do is understand the super organism that is human ciety. But again, that picture is built on the very same assumption: there's nothing more to human society than people and interactions with one another.

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