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> But no branch of human inquiry has cut itself off from the whole – and from the other social sciences – more than economics.

In Bratislava, the town I come from, there's Comenius University which has many faculties, one of them being Philosohical Faculty. Among many departments in Philosophical Faculty there's a department of sociology.

There is also a fully separate Economics University, with its own faculties and departments.

It's a nice example of how the fact that economics is just one of many subdisciplines of sociology is concealed and instead, an impression is created that economics can exists as a fully separate discipline independent of any sociological factors.




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