The author has made an attempt to trace the beginning of this development in two series of articles on “Scientism and the Study of Society” and “The Counter-Revolution of Science,” which appeared in Economica, 1941–44. [Revisions of these essays appear in The Counter-Revolution of Science: Studies in the Abuse of Reason, op. cit., on pp. 17–182 and 183–363, respectively. —Ed.]
