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The diachronic social — Daniel Little

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An earlier post offered what is for me a fairly large change of orientation on fundamental questions of social ontology: a conviction that the concept of ontological individualism is no longer supportable. My concern there was that this phrase gives too much ontological priority to individual actors; whereas the truth about the social world is more complex. Individuals are indeed the substrate of social structures and entities, but social entities are in turn constitutive of individual social actors.The implication is that our social ontology needs to give equal priority to both actors and structures. But how can we make sense of these three ideas in a non-paradoxical way:Why is this significant? MMT is a type of institutional economics, for example. Institutional arrangements are some of

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An earlier post offered what is for me a fairly large change of orientation on fundamental questions of social ontology: a conviction that the concept of ontological individualism is no longer supportable. My concern there was that this phrase gives too much ontological priority to individual actors; whereas the truth about the social world is more complex. Individuals are indeed the substrate of social structures and entities, but social entities are in turn constitutive of individual social actors.

The implication is that our social ontology needs to give equal priority to both actors and structures. But how can we make sense of these three ideas in a non-paradoxical way:

Why is this significant? MMT is a type of institutional economics, for example. Institutional arrangements are some of the structures that Daniel Little mentions as being causal factors in social science, including economics. 

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Daniel Little | Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Chancellor (emeritus) for the University of Michigan-Dearborn 2000-2018
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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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