Economics and the social sciences : boundaries interaction and integration This book is based on the premise that mainstream economics has become excessively specialized and formalized entering a state of de facto withdrawal from the study of the economy in favour of exercises in applied mathematics. The editors believe that there is much scope for synergies by engaging in an encounter with economics and the other social sciences. The chapters in this book offer important new contributions to such a development pt. 1. Economics and other social sciences : relationships and boundaries pt. 2. New light on rationality social relations and the environment pt. 3. Flexibility routines and production in economics and social sciences.