CHAPTER 7 - Social and Economic Life and Thought

Abstract

This chapter presents a few general guides on social and economic life and thought. The extensive literature of the social sciences is well surveyed in P.R. Lewis, The Literature of the Social Sciences: An Introductory Survey and Guide (Library Association, 1960). This provides information about basic works on the social sciences in general and on economics, economic history, statistics, commerce and industry, political science and public administration, law, international affairs, and sociology. Although the emphasis is particularly on 20th-century materials, the book contains much information for the historian. The sections devoted to libraries and their problems are extremely useful both for students and for librarians. A Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences, edited by B. F. Hoselitz (New York, Free Pr., 1959), devotes separate chapters to history, geography, political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Each chapter in the guide notes the developments within the subject and provides a narrative survey of the literature.