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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2024
One of the important intellectual interests of American scholars and scientists at the present time is the movement toward greater integration of specialized fields and disciplines. The size of the movement must not be exaggerated—it concerns a small minority of scholars, and most specialists are still content to stay comfortably within the cosy walls of their own specialty. Nevertheless there is something which might be called an “interdisciplinary movement” in many areas of knowledge, and if the movement is occasionally more undisciplined than interdisciplinary, this can be charitably ascribed to growing pains.
1. See especially George Katona, Psychological Analysis of Economic Behavior (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1951), and Albert Lauterbach, Man, Motives and Money (Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1954).
2. Politics, Economics, and Welfare, by R. A. Dahl and C. E. Lindblom (New York, Harper, 1953), represents a major attempt in this direction.
3. See M. J. Herskovitz, Economic Anthropology (New York, Knopf, 1952).
4. Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics (New York, Wiley, 1948).
5. J. Von Neumann and O. Morgenstern, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior 3rd ed. (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1953).
