Methodology of Social Sciences Centre
The Methodology of Social Sciences Centre (CMSS) was formed in 1989 and in its initial years research focused on three areas: methodology, political science (merged with the new Luiss Lap in 2008) and the history and theory of historiography (which in 2000 became independent following the formation of the International Centre for Transition Studies).
In particular, the research on social sciences methodologies concentrates on methodological individualism and the epistemological, sociological, economic and political aspects of the thinking of Austrian marginalists (Menger, Mises, Böhm-Bawerk and Hayek), the main neo-Austrian Americans (Kirzner, Stigler and Rothbard) and other notable advocates of the school of thought known as methodological individualism (Tocqueville, Spencer, Simmel, Weber, Popper and Boudon).
The research undertaken by the Centre tends to stress the heuristic fecundity of the individualistic strategy in the social sciences, in the direction especially of the Austrian school, critical rationalism and the French school of R. Boudon. The essays (already published or forthcoming) on the classic authors of the individualistic tradition and the publication within the framework of the Centre's collections of some of the fundamental works of Menger, Mises, Böhm-Bawerk, Hayek, Kirzner, etc. all fall within the context of that epistemological approach
