Social Sciences in the Mist

... Mechanisms: A major obstacle I encountered throughout the period I was writing my dissertation was the polarization of academic work. A very insightful book by Brown and Ainley (2005: 142) defined my predicament well for the two key disciplines in social sciences: “just as contemporary political scientists characteristically undermine the importance of markets, so contemporary economists usually set to one side political phenomena”. As my thesis was based on energy, I also found the book by Kuzemko et al (2011: VIII, 3) very useful, it defined the issue I have faced well by saying that most have “consistently conceptualize energy either as commodity to be traded or a resource to be projected politically ...