This paper traces the evolution of structuralist thought from the early European and Latin American structuralists through the late structuralism of Taylor and his followers. The genesis of the structuralist method is located in the writings of the early structuralists and necessarily leads to what neoclassicals call ad hoc theory. It is argued that simulation models are the logical outgrowth o...

One of the most inaonc~lusive debates in the history of American academic economics is the debate over the impact of structural shifts in the economy on employment conditions. Beginning in the late 1950’s Charles Killingsworth and others argued that rising unemployment rates were in part due to structural shifts in the economy.1 Eckstein, Heller, Knowles, Kalachek, and Gordon, among others, voc...

The development discourse has been thrown into a disarray and paradigmatic quagmire by the impasse of neo-liberal transnational social cartographies. There are calls within fraternity to deterritorise concept so as grapple with it sufficiently effectively. Failure adhere this call, various discourses have accused methodological territorialism. This paper uses critical hermeneutics argue that tr...

Structuralism and quidditism are competing views of the metaphysics of property individuation: structuralists claim that properties are individuated by their nomological roles; quidditists claim that they are individuated by something else. This paper (1) refutes what many see as the best reason to accept structuralism over quidditism and (2) offers a methodological argument in favor of a quidd...

It is not my purpose here to give a historical treatment of linguistic ideas, nor it to distinguish and analyze the various approaches and schools of thought generally subsumed under the heading of Structuralism. Rather, I propose to look at the general features characterizing structuralism as seen and treated by structuralists and further to see how it has come to be viewed by Chomsky and othe...