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This article—the text of a talk given to faculty and students at the University of California, San Diego—summarizes the reflections of a veteran editor on the present challenge of publishing in the social sciences. This challenge is framed in terms of the cross-disciplinary opportunities in the areas of sociology, economics, and public policy analysis and stresses the importance of new, synthetic social scientific work in the solution to the conundrums of capitalism.
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Dougherty, P.J. Enlightenment ideals and recombinant ideas: Making capitalism work. Am Soc 28, 57–61 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-997-1013-4
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