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 First edition | |
| Author | William A. Darity Jr. |
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| Subject | Social science |
| Publisher | Macmillan Reference USA |
Publication date | 2008 |
| ISBN | 978-0-02-865965-7 |
| Preceded by | Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (1930–35) |
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences was first published in 1968 and was edited by David L. Sills and Robert K. Merton. [1] It contains seventeen volumes and thousands of entries written by scholars around the world. The 2nd edition is composed entirely of new articles. [2] It was published in 2008 and edited by William A. Darity Jr., an American economist. [3]
The 1968 Encyclopedia was initially intended to "complement, not supplant" MacMillan's earlier, fifteen-volume Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences , which had been published from 1930 to 1967 and was edited by American economists Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman and Alvin Saunders Johnson, it effectively replaced the earlier Encyclopaedia, in practice. [4] [5] [6] [7]
