The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition

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The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition

Role

Editor: William Darity Jr.

Contributing author: Eric Mielants

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Description/Summary

Eric Mielants is a contributing author, “Immanuel Wallerstein,” p. 9-11 and “Andre Gunder Frank,” p. 187-188.

Book description: The entirely new International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Like its predecessors, the set meets the needs of high school and college students, researchers inside and outside academia, and lay readers in public libraries.

The new set highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features nearly 3,000 entirely new articles and important biographies contributed by thousands of scholars (including several Nobel prize winners) from around the world on a wide array of global topics, including: achievement testing, censorship, personality measurement, aging, income distribution, foreign aid (political and economic aspects), food (world problems, consumption patterns), cultural adaptation, comparative health-care systems, terrorism, political correctness, agricultural innovation, legislation of morality, sexual violence and exploitation, white collar crime.

The new 2nd edition also features biographical profiles of the major contributors to the study of the social sciences, past and present.

ISBN

9780028659657

Publication Date

2007

Publication Information

Mielants, Eric. “Immanuel Wallerstein” and “Andre Gunder Frank” in William Darity Jr. (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, Detroit: Macmillan/Thomson Gale, 2007, pp. 9-11 and pp. 187-188.

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