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Wilson, E., Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Random House, 1999.

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Intergenerational Mobility, Siblings' Inequality and Borrowing.. - Gaviria (1998)   (Correct)

....the identification of capital constrained families) Evidence from other countries (both developed and developing) and from other data sets will surely shed much needed light on these outstanding and fundamental issues. 17 The economic analysis of the family has been recently criticized by E.O. Wilson (1998) on the grounds that it offers little more than folk psychology disguised in economic language. In Wilson s words, typically the predictions arise from the commonsense intuition of the modeller, that is, from folk psychology, and following a series of analytical steps, confirm commonsense ....

Wilson, E.O., 1998. Consilience: Unity of Knowledge. New York: Knopf.


Some Remarks On Statistics And Scientific Explanation - Viana, JOVANOVIC (2000)   (Correct)

....experimental data, of analysis of data and interpretation of natural phenomena in the collective of all statistical reasoning territories (e.g. biological, sociological) More generally, by considering that fragmentation of knowledge leads to fragmentation of reality. This is conveyed by Edward Wilson (1998), in his contemporary approach to unity of science. He argues that the ongoing fragmentation of knowledge . is not reflection of the real world but artifact of scholarship(p.8) So that we have mathematical, biological, social, educational, economic and many more statistics to read from. During ....

Wilson, E. O. (1998), Consilience - The Unity of Knowledge, Alfred Knopf, New York, NY.


Systems Synthesis: Towards a new paradigm and discipline for.. - Williamson (2001)   (Correct)

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Wilson, E., Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Random House, 1999.

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